Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. Economists and finance.

Strategy 13

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Yet the simplicity and almost child-like nature of Icahn’s approach still begs examination. He’s not a Steve Cohen , pushing at the edges of legality to get an information edge.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

Now, let me couch this for you in the human terms of political economy — the terms in which you and I should rightly conceive of an "economy" as the sum of the enduring human good; not merely as a set of pipes for the grease of finance to be injected into. Simon Johnson and numerous others have proposed banks be broken, split, limited.

Price 14

Price Short-term Proposal System 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. In this fluid system, Biocon finances CMI's inventive R&D, while using the funds from the Pfizer deal to finance its own R&D and go-to-market activities. Dr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange Media. Transformers.

Shaw 13

Shaw Globalization Innovation Entrepreneur 13