Building Personal Strength

AUGUST 14, 2010

The next day, we went down to test-drive the car and haggle over price. Mike quickly gave us a great price with lots of perks, and now we're happy owners of the car. Copyright 2010. By the end of the day, I located just the right car on the Internet, and I called the Universal Toyota dealership just east of San Antonio.

Discount 84

Discount Price Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 84

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” ” The question realistically should be “Why are prices not even higher?” The lack of price sensitivity on the demand side of the health care market cannot but influence strategies on the supply side.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. See The Risks of Prescription Drugs (Columbia 2010).

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Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The founders hired marketing and advertising experts and created what they called their ‘Drink Tank’ – a group responsible for developing and managing the Odwalla brand. Geico has done a particularly remarkable job at grabbing attention for their insurance products. In the first quarter of 2010 alone, they acquired 1.4

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Wilde Tactics Advertising Brand 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests. For example, an insurer could take a business process such as claims processing and automate it entirely, using speech and vision understanding.

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Insurance Video Long-term Project 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

That time came in 2010, reports The Guardian , when two aging Swedish financiers attended Freak Guitar summer camp in bucolic Härsjösand outside Gothenburg. Union membership fell in 2012 to its lowest level since 1916, even in the wake of 30 years of wage stagnation, growing income inequality, and cutbacks in pensions and insurance coverage.

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McKinsey Consensus Management Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. But the 2012 haircut only covered debt held by private creditors (including banks, insurance companies, and pension funds). And what about that price? The IMF, ECB, and EU own the rest.

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

About 12% of the federal budget in 2012 supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to poor families. Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010. What about the costs of cash in developing economies, where cash use is much more prevalent?

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. For example, Ageas, a large European insurance company, has been using this model for its successful expansion into Asia.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software. Uber’s lower costs brought lower prices to consumers, with resulting popularity and growth. Uber’s Fundamental Illegality. Fixing the Problem.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. This is precisely what it did with Greece in the first place, by not allowing it to restructure in 2010, and thus building this mountain of debt.

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Restructuring Policies Crisis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

If they were required to purchase a seat to strap their car carrier into, it would increase the price of the trip for their parents, who would then be more likely to drive. By forcing people to purchase additional seats it would inevitably drive up the demand and therefore the price of airline tickets (and I fly quite a bit).

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After 2010, climate all but disappeared from the national conversation. Since January, we have seen record drought, rising commodities prices, the lowest Arctic ice levels in recorded history, and a rash of costly extreme weather events. companies are technology leaders in developing acceptable substitutes. Fortunately, U.S.

Cost 9

Cost Price Energy Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This increase has come at a high price, hitting home most obviously in workers’ pay. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%. Today it accounts for nearly twice that — close to 18%.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. Any number of companies would like that data, and I’d be happy to provide it to some, at a price. But how, and at what price?

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At C Space, we’ve conducted more than 800 mobile journaling and ethnography projects on behalf of over 240 clients since 2010, and have seen the power of bringing consumer experience to life for our clients. We found that our members didn’t so much actively renew as just “stay” with us, and largely because of price.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

When the ACA was passed, in 2010, many observed that although the ACA expanded access to health care, it did less to address the equally critical issue of improving the delivery of that care. The success of efforts to improve care delivery hinges on developing clear approaches to performance measurement. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Customer Loyalty Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Energy Information Administration notes that between 2010 and 2012, 14 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired capacity was retired and that a total of 60 GW will be retired by 2020. Price pressure from natural gas , wind , and solar has been relentless. First, some background on the coal industry: Profitability for U.S.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Training 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They offer strategies like content development, email marketing, creative and branding, and more.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

You know, when [Eugene] Fama and [Robert] Shiller got the Nobel, in the New York Times , they have Fama saying about Shiller’s forecast of a decline in housing prices, “Aw yeah, he’s been saying that for years.” So, in that context you come up with the conclusion yes, it’s an improbable event, but it still requires insurance.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12