Platform Price Competition - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2001
News

T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)

turn will keep the stock price at a sufficiently high level to ward off prospective predators and maintain the company's independence." Dunphy stepped down as CEO in 1999 and as chairman in 2000. He has since pursued diverse... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Management

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

Lewis Jr. (MBA 1969), George R. “Bob” Price (MBA 1970), and A. Leroy “Roy” Willis (MBA 1969). In commemoration of this milestone, four of AASU’s founders (Price died in 2012) reflect on their time at the School, the creation of the... View Details

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

to accomplish the following: mine your sales data to identify "homerun" products you're missing; reinvent your forecasting and pricing strategies; build end-to-end agility into your supply chain; establish incentives that align... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1999
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

attempt to define the characteristics of "good" programs in order to understand how best to structure, deliver, and price new ones. Benchmarking against sister institutions will help define what the market can bear. Marketing to HBS... View Details

02 Jan 2024
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

make this point: Imagine someone with no experience diving standing above the deep end of a pool and, “Watch me do a 10-meter platform dive!” Would you consider that person to be courageous – or reckless? In short, overcoming fear and... View Details

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

29 Apr 2015
Blog Post

2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business

never imagined business and public health could ever be related. But when I was accepted into the 2+2 Program, I challenged my understanding of “business” and was able to find a company that was using their platform to positively impact... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

shipping them back to the United States. The collection contains a large amount of correspondence detailing competition for trade, price of goods, the general business atmosphere, and his views on social... View Details

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. Specifically, we model competitive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

competitive pressures in a saturated market. As 2018 dawned, all parties were assessing the deal’s implications. Had the stock market overreacted to news of the deal? Why was Amazon buying Whole Foods? What were the long-term implications... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2013
News

A Healthy Profit

a profit-making opportunity and a legitimate part of the financial-services industry, this scale constraint was lifted. "Only when an economic activity generates above-average returns can it become an industry," says Chu, "and only an industry delivers the scale,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2004
News

Reforming Company Boards

taken to achieve them, and there was a need for new and practical solutions to improve governance and increase accountability. How can you tell when a company is playing the “share price game”? The biggest warning sign is when companies... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic risks and illuminates possible... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in February 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are looking over the results of the fulfillment pilot the... View Details