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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Priceline introduced the “conditional price offer,” an economic notion developed by the company’s founder, Jay Walker, who put his undergraduate economics training to good use to form a company that has revolutionized travel. Examples include index funds, and their more recent variation, index-based exchange traded funds (EFTs).