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- July 7, 2022
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Are Online Prices Higher Because of Pricing Algorithms?
By: Zach Y. Brown and Alexander J. MacKay
This article reviews recent work examining pricing strategies of major online retailers and the potential effects of pricing algorithms. We describe how pricing algorithms can lead to higher prices in a number of ways, even if some characteristics of these algorithms...
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Pricing Algorithms;
Online Marketplace;
Digital Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Retail Industry
Brown, Zach Y., and Alexander J. MacKay. "Are Online Prices Higher Because of Pricing Algorithms?" Brookings Series: The Economics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (July 7, 2022).
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take you to the point where it’s 2012. You’re evaluating becoming CEO of Best Buy. What was your head saying, and what was your heart saying? The company was struggling to compete with Amazon, among other View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
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Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
overwhelmed by the market complexities of what's happening with different crop prices, what they should be selling, who they should be selling to, how and when they should sell. Those are all things that we...
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- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
that the company survived the "license raj" era through a commitment to legitimacy and strong family values. "You could expand, but a lot of things were required, bribes, and we would never give a bribe, so...
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- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
influx of foreign capital helped finance investments in new technology, one might also conclude that U.S. employees and consumers benefited to a significant degree at the expense of foreign investors. This...
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by James Heskett
- 11 Apr 2022
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A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of...
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by Jen McFarland Flint
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with many other institutions. But really from the get-go, we designed with a tech-first approach. One of those big things was, how do we leverage the internet to reach and...
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Becoming Effective Change Makers: The Power of Networks
Instituting change in an organization or in a sector of society has always been the bane of leaders. However, some leaders do succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their organizations and even whole sectors of society. What makes some change makers triumph in a...
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online learning industry in 1998 when the internet was new, which just seems so long ago, and went to work for a little company that ran out of money. We sold it to a bigger company. I was the head View Details
- September 1999 (Revised January 2000)
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Last Mile of Broadband Access, The: Technical Note
By: Jay O. Light, Lynda M. Applegate and Daniel J. Green
Provides an overview of broadband access technology. Includes technical overviews of cable, DSL, fixed wireless, and satellite systems, and suggests the technical suitability of each to accommodate broadband applications.
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Light, Jay O., Lynda M. Applegate, and Daniel J. Green. "Last Mile of Broadband Access, The: Technical Note." Harvard Business School Technical Note 800-076, September 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
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I came to ServiceNow about seven months ago to lead global education and training certification and also build a pipeline of talent. I also had a similar role at Salesforce, and I was there for about 15 years. The biggest View Details
- 01 May 2019
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What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
earner for him and for YouTube. Jones complained that his freedom of speech was being suppressed. The move was prompted by complaints from the public but also by criticism from YouTube employees. But YouTube continued to feature...
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it's most valuable is the CEO and the CFO. Because their job, more than else, is to take a set of resources and turn that into a strategic execution plan. And the reality is, as Pat said, they do not know the most important View Details
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professional services in the kind of apprenticeships we’re doing. I actually think America’s probably, though, only five years behind Britain on this. So one of the things that...
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hospitalizations, surgeries, special treatments. And then the last year and a half of her life, she was on hospice. And it remains, taking care of my mom and being involved in her care remains the single...
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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day
As Memorial Day approaches, it’s natural for our minds to drift to summer – thoughts of firing up the grill, getting a boat in the water, or vacation travel would (at least in normal times) tantalize us through workdays that seem to grow...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
exciting thing they’ve seen in recent years, where you have the entire grid changing and the demand curve changing with the electrification of transportation. It’s also happening in rail and in other forms...
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in the early days of the pandemic last year really as the primary lifeline to businesses to get to the other side—service businesses, in particular, whose revenues have largely disappeared as they were shut down or as customers access to...
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paradise.” So we want an environment where people can spend more time crafting or building or working on the things that are really their subject-matter expertise in pursuit and fulfillment of our mission....
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talent by coaching, learning, and things like that. Ultimately, we help clients to transition talent, sometimes to another job within their company and sometimes to another job outside of their company. So...
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