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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. That way, travelers took their offers much more seriously than if they simply could “name their price” without any purchase obligation. Admittedly, better pricing of options has been a mixed blessing.