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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
not receive such evidence. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Targeted Price Controls on Supermarket Products By: Cavallo, Alberto, and Diego Aparicio Abstract—We study the impact of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
towards those customers for whom the intervention will pay off, therefore increasing the value of customers while maximizing the return on the marketing efforts. Targeting effectively ultimately depends on the firm's ability to precisely...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
and affect aggregate inflation dynamics. In particular, I show that in the past ten years online competition has raised both the frequency of price changes and the degree of uniform pricing across locations. These changes make retail...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to...
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by Rachel Layne
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
lead to more volatile inflation in the future. Prices also can react quicker to policy changes and demand-side shocks. In fact, policymakers at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere are the target audience for...
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Podcast - Business & Environment
climaterising.org. Managing Electricity to Meet Net Zero Targets 19 JUL 2023 | Climate Rising In this episode, Melissa Lott, Director of Research and Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, and...
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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Prior stock price peaks of targets affect several aspects of merger and acquisition activity. Offer prices are biased toward recent peak prices although they are economically unremarkable. An...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Health Care - Faculty & Research
Read Now Related Tang, Mitchell, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity." JAMA Network Open 7, no. 3 (March 2024). Medicare Price Negotiation and Pharmaceutical...
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- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the...
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by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest...
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by Lane Lambert
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
around the world. For the cohort she led, Senior Lecturer Nori Gerardo Lietz taught the case she coauthored, “Doing Business in Buenos Aires, Argentina,” during the classroom portion of the FGI course, which began in March. But even after discussing Argentina’s...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
along lines of race, class, and geography.”[2] Policy Summary The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022Contains about $40 billion in benefits for environmental justice.[3] Three main areas of effect (identified by Senate Democrats) [4]Reduce...
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Hydrogen Near Tipping Point to Accelerate Decarbonization, HBS Research Shows - Blog - Business in Global Society
green hydrogen will depend on substantially lower production costs for power-to-gas technologies. New research out of Harvard Business School projects that the life-cycle cost of hydrogen production will approach the $1.0/kg target set by...
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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
basic idea is that if the central bank manages to keep inflation within the target range (again, around 2 percent), then everything else will tend to fall into place: low unemployment, relatively stable GDP...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Think" (Harvard Business Review , November/December 1999), Mr. Sahlman describes the positive role of entrepreneurship in the economy. He emphasizes the impact of enabling technologies like the Internet on critical factors like inflation...
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- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
contributed to what came to be regarded as a target unemployment rate, with anything less causing excessive inflation. At one time, many economists thought this to be as high as 6 percent. The Phillips curve has taken its lumps over the...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Financial Markets | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
include Stock & Commodity Exchanges in the US, High Frequency Trading in the US SBBI Classic Yearbook: Market Results for Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce...
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