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- Forthcoming
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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge
By: Alberto Cavallo and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring...
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Keywords:
Macroeconomics;
Inflation and Deflation;
Price;
Consumer Behavior;
Personal Finance;
Product Positioning
Cavallo, Alberto, and Oleksiy Kryvtsov. "Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge." Journal of Monetary Economics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online July 24, 2024.)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
growth. Four of the five papers in this year’s volume highlight the increasing role of the Internet and digitization in our understanding of the changing nature of innovation and entrepreneurship View Details
- 06 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting
- November 2008 (Revised November 2008)
- Case
Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network
By: Sunil Gupta and Sangman Han
In May 2008, the new CEO of Cyworld, a social network company in Korea, had to decide how to create and capture value from his rapidly growing user base. Cyworld was founded in 1999, and in 2003 it was acquired by SK Telecom, a leading mobile service provider in Korea....
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Keywords:
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Consumer Behavior;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Segmentation;
Value Creation;
South Korea
Gupta, Sunil, and Sangman Han. "Cyworld: Creating and Capturing Value in a Social Network." Harvard Business School Case 509-012, November 2008. (Revised November 2008.)
- October 2020
- Case
Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress
By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be...
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Keywords:
Geopolitics;
Technology Ecosystem;
Software Engineers;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Business Startups;
International Relations;
Cooperation;
Opportunities;
Problems and Challenges;
Technology Industry;
Israel;
Palestinian state
Ofek, Elie, and Lia Weiner. "Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress." Harvard Business School Case 521-046, October 2020.
- December 2012
- Article
Bolstering and Restoring Feelings of Competence via the IKEA Effect
By: Daniel Mochon, Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
We examine the underlying process behind the IKEA effect, which is defined as consumers' willingness to pay more for self-created products than for identical products made by others, and explore the factors that influence both consumers' willingness to engage in...
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Mochon, Daniel, Michael I. Norton, and Dan Ariely. "Bolstering and Restoring Feelings of Competence via the IKEA Effect." International Journal of Research in Marketing 29, no. 4 (December 2012): 363–369.
- Fast Answer
Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry
financial fundamentals for valuation; equity research and investment firm data; For a multimedia learning module on LSEG Workspace check out our Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Industry...
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- 22 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to...
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- July – August 2008
- Article
Leaders in Denial
Henry Ford's stubborn refusal to admit the changeability of consumer demand allowed Chrysler and GM to horn in on his market. Half a century later the whole U.S. auto industry made the same mistake: Enter the Japanese. But denial comes in many forms, as Sears, Digital...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Judgments;
Leadership;
Demand and Consumers;
Auto Industry;
United States
Tedlow, Richard S. "Leaders in Denial." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008).
- October 1994 (Revised January 1997)
- Case
Nestle Refrigerated Foods: Contadina Pasta and Pizza (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Nestle Co.'s Refrigerated Foods Division has very successfully launched its Contadina brand pasta and sauces. The new product has achieved nearly $100 million in sales in three years. The division now considers an extension into the pizza line. This case provides a...
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Keywords:
Business Divisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Sales;
Commercialization;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Nestle Refrigerated Foods: Contadina Pasta and Pizza (A)." Harvard Business School Case 595-035, October 1994. (Revised January 1997.)
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
in developing countries where laying fiber just doesn’t make sense, although there are real questions about cost and sustainability. Apart from the hard-core mobile gamers, though, what will the average View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- February 1987 (Revised August 1988)
- Case
Gillette Personal Care Division: Marketing Planning and Control
Bill Ryan, president of the Gillette Co.'s Personal Care Division, is considering changing the division's planning and control system for marketing. White Rain, the division's most recent success, had been launched by taking shortcuts through the system, while other...
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Bonoma, Thomas V. "Gillette Personal Care Division: Marketing Planning and Control." Harvard Business School Case 587-099, February 1987. (Revised August 1988.)
- 20 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture
is in charge of Organic & Non-GMO Product Marketing at Indigo Agriculture And Eisen has just launched Plant Snacks. Given all this change, building consumer trust is critical. As Conklin observed, “there...
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- October 2022
- Article
How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking
By: Ryan Raffaelli, Rich DeJordy and Rory M. McDonald
How do leaders with divergent visions for their organization come together to create a novel strategy? This paper employs paradox as a lens to investigate how leader-dyads can integrate opposing strategies to produce a new, generative approach. Drawing on a qualitative...
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Keywords:
Strategic Paradoxes;
Senior Leaders;
Organizational Reinvention;
Leadership;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Change;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Switzerland
Raffaelli, Ryan, Rich DeJordy, and Rory M. McDonald. "How Leaders with Divergent Visions Generate Novel Strategy: Navigating the Paradox of Preservation and Modernization in Swiss Watchmaking." Academy of Management Journal 65, no. 5 (October 2022): 1593–1622.
- April 1994 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
World Sugar Industry and Tate & Lyle
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Keywords:
Consumer Products Industry
Koehn, Nancy F. "World Sugar Industry and Tate & Lyle." Harvard Business School Case 794-119, April 1994. (Revised April 1996.)
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new offerings are half-courses that require only fifteen sessions...
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Keywords:
curriculum
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
global accelerator in which judges across international regions are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe.” Case Studies and Materials Rolex SA Doug J. Chung “Rolex SA was one of the most successful...
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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
emerging technologies to innovate and create differentiated customer experiences, people in organizations have to work differently, Hill says. Corporations are finding that digital transformation often View Details