Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly 8:25 AM Tuesday November 30, 2010 by Joshua Gans | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print This years holiday shopping season improved somewhat over last year with sales likely to top $11 billion.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

In June 2010, I queued outside an Apple store for a couple of hours to secure a new iPhone 4. Enter Best Buy's heavily advertised "buy-back" plan — marketed as " future-proofing " your technology. For instance, if you want to buy in a year's time, Best Buy will pay you 40% of the price of your old phone. If you pay $59.99

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. billion in 2010, predicting it would grow at 20% a year for a decade.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Uber — founded by Garrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, and Travis Kalanick, and launched in 2010 in San Francisco — allows people to get and pay for taxi rides easily. Uber has positioned itself for the time-sensitive rather than price-sensitive consumer. With dynamic pricing, when supply gets tight, prices rise.

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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. While the overall costs of cash usage in all these markets are daunting, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

As for its official debt to the EU, the ECB, and the IMF, it consisted largely of payments that were made to pass through to EU financial institutions, between 2010 and 2012, so that the Eurozone banks and insurance companies would not be imperiled. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

A working group whose members include Humana, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, PepsiCo, Unilever, and South African insurer Discovery recently proposed that publicly traded corporations provide an overview on the health of their workforces in their various forms of public disclosure, including annual reports, 10-Ks, and sustainability reports.

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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. Put a price on carbon. Hurricane Sandy put it back on the map. Some 30 U.S.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

What’s more, hundreds of millions of American consumers benefit from access to wide variety and lower price of goods, ranging from home appliances to cars, increasing their purchasing power noticeably. According to our analysis , trade accounted for only 20% of net manufacturing job losses in the United States between 2000 and 2010.

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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. These businesses include Bloomberg and Morningstar, which provide data about financial markets. But how, and at what price?

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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. “But isn’t this atypical of the normal shopping experience,” the seasoned market researcher might object?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of all commodity markets. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Others cite the nine organizations leaving the program and the humbling results of a prior ACO experiment in Medicare — the Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD) that ran from 2005 to 2010 — as reasons to be pessimistic. The basic market failures in health care are still with us.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

The question of whether the United States will have functioning markets where individuals can buy health care insurance lies at the heart of the current debate about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). First, these insurance markets were distressed before the enactment of the Affordable Care Act.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Add to that the problem of intra-European financial markets with "national" regulatory institutions and the lack of a Europe-wide deposit insurance scheme or common debt instrument, and one can start to understand why the euro zone is going through an existential crisis with still no real end in sight.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. One is allowing people to purchase insurance even if they have a pre-existing condition.

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