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- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
And that percolates back to retail investors, as well. But at the same time, the entrepreneurs who are still out there swinging are getting a lot done and creating a lot of value. And remember: not all crypto products are purely... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
news network, or on their own. The cognitive referents traded the additional publicity that a big public debut offered for tighter control over their timeline and for having a meaningful message that would resonate with customers. Not all... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small protected niche markets such as View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
framework” Pharmacists would pressure manufacturers to enforce fair trade sales contracts that followed set price schedules and service guarantees. In turn, retailers would police one another and report... View Details
- June 1995 (Revised July 1995)
- Case
Wal-Mart in East Asia
By: David B. Yoffie and Richard Seet
Discusses Wal-Mart's entry strategy in East Asia, specifically Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and China. View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Trade; Expansion; Retail Industry; East Asia; Singapore; Japan; Hong Kong; China
Yoffie, David B., and Richard Seet. "Wal-Mart in East Asia." Harvard Business School Case 795-188, June 1995. (Revised July 1995.)
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information about large stock trades to their best, most lucrative clients. When a savvy activist investor submits a trading order through a brokerage firm, for example, the brokers will exploit this... View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
faced. There is also a second cause, one that has its roots in the changing shopping experience. During the 1960s, European retailing began moving away from personalized service and toward new self-service sales formats. Abetted by the... View Details
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
Rich and Famous." As they grew richer, pressure increased on those below to trade up. And, as they traded up, pressure increased in turn on the well-off to buy even more—the second home, the big screen TV,... View Details
- May 1999 (Revised August 1999)
- Case
Victory Supermarkets: Expansion Strategy?
By: David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Jay DiGeronimo, president of a 16-store supermarket chain, is trying to decide the timing and method for expanding his chain. The family-owned company could continue in a maintenance mode, with each family member running one store. It could expand slowly using a new... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Trade; Investment; Market Entry and Exit; Supply Chain Management; Private Ownership; Competition; Expansion; Retail Industry
Bell, David E., and Ann Leamon. "Victory Supermarkets: Expansion Strategy?" Harvard Business School Case 599-054, May 1999. (Revised August 1999.)
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Transparency with Costly Information Processing By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marco Pagano Abstract—We study a model where some investors (“hedgers”) are bad at information processing, while others (“speculators”) have superior information-processing ability and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
Strategies of Multichannel Retailers Authors:Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona, and Miklos Sarvary Publication:Marketing Science 30, no. 1 (January-February 2011) Abstract The Internet has increased the flexibility of retailers, allowing them to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
mobilization that can improve labor conditions more broadly. Publisher's link: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR38.3/ndf_jodi_short_michael_toffel_global_brands_labor_justice.php Working Papers The Impact of Supplier Reliability on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
deposits and withdrawals. Five were turned into "financial centers," spacious, relaxed outlets where customers would have access to the trained staff and advanced technologies required for sophisticated services such as stock View Details
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive pay and severance packages at several firms implicated in the credit crisis of 2008, the executive compensation provisions in the Emergency... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
revenue for Amazon, in addition to the additional value the online retailing giant gets from the loyalty customers feel once they are enrolled. "THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT PRIME MEMBERS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR AMAZON, AND IT GIVES... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
Political and Social Systems. Every country's political system affects its product, labor, and capital markets. In socialist societies like China, for instance, workers cannot form independent trade unions in the labor market, which... View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
and trading many others; creating and maintaining blogs, some of which are more frequently visited today than network television shows; contributing and editing items on the ever-changing open-network encyclopedia, Wikipedia; and when... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S1064-4857_2014_0000016007 Working Papers Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia B. Topalova Abstract—Does poverty lead to crime? We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne