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- 2024
- Working Paper
Consumer Inertia and Market Power
By: Alexander MacKay and Marc Remer
We study the pricing decisions of firms in the presence of consumer inertia. Inertia, which can arise from habit formation, brand loyalty, and switching costs, generates dynamic pricing incentives. These incentives mediate the impact of competition on market power in... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Inertia; Market Power; Dynamic Competition; Demand Estimation; Consumer Behavior; Markets; Performance; Competition; Price
MacKay, Alexander, and Marc Remer. "Consumer Inertia and Market Power." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-111, April 2019. (Revised January 2024. Direct download.)
- 11 May 2020
- News
Covid-19 Dispatch: Karen Mills
- 26 Jun 2020
- News
Can a Co-Working Space Go Online? It Can in a Pandemic
- June 2014
- Case
Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth Legris
Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal analyzes the turnaround and reconstruction of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how... View Details
Keywords: Howard Schultz; Starbucks; Transformation; Turnaround; Change; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Leadership; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Value; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia; South America; Middle East; Latin America
Koehn, Nancy F., Kelly McNamara, Nora N. Khan, and Elizabeth Legris. "Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal." Harvard Business School Case 314-068, June 2014.
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of their people with marketplace opportunity. These CEOs spent a great deal of time crystallizing their values and purpose and how strategy could be defined in a way that integrated strategy with values. In this way View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2011
- News
U.S. manufacturing attempts a high-tech comeback
- 18 May 2017
- News
Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management
- January 2018
- Background Note
Math Tools for Strategists
By: Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin
Great strategists rely heavily on numbers as they go about their work. This note offers an overview of the highbrow and lowbrow quantitative tools that individuals commonly encounter during strategy courses and in actual strategy work. The note focuses especially on... View Details
Khanna, Tarun, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Math Tools for Strategists." Harvard Business School Background Note 718-477, January 2018.
- October 2012
- Course Overview Note
FIELD 2—Working with Global Partners
Most FIELD 2 teams develop great working relationships with their Global Partner. But managing Global Partner expectations can be challenging. This note describes three scenarios with which FIELD teams struggled in the past and asks the reader to make decisions about... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- News
Pepsi Chief Shuffles Management to Soothe Investors
- 23 Sep 2014
- News
We Cool? Your Guide to Avoiding Fights at Work
Global Accountabilities
Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1
Hosting a company recruiting event is a great way to build brand awareness and engage with HBS students. At the same time, we know that event planning requires a commitment from your team in preparing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 31 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Launch Your 1st Year Recruiting Efforts at Company Information Day
Company Information Day is the first day organizations are able to present on-campus to 1st year students. Students do not have class on Company Information Day which maximizes your attendance numbers. It is a View Details
- 24 Jul 2011
- News
For debt crisis lessons, look back 225 years
- 18 Aug 2011
- News
Best Leadership Books of All Time
- 18 Jun 2012
- News