George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at @RiceUniversity. I tweet mainly about marketing, pricing, & consumer welfare. (No, these topics are not incompatible)
Houston, TX
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Companies are hoping to escape consumer backlash by making price increases hard to evaluate. Here are common ways companies raise costs covertly: on.wsj.com/30Htool
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NEW: A big study about honesty—led by Dan Ariely, who literally wrote the book on the subject—is being retracted over fake data.
What does Dr. Ariely have to say? And what's the company that allegedly provided the data? I have answers. buzzfeednews.com/article/ste…
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Pay what you want for the Rockstar Games Humble Bundle and choose where your money goes!
humblebundle.com/games/rocks…
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The strategies pursued by South Korea, Vietnam & China are paying off. As of Nov. 1, the cumulative death rate per million is:
🇺🇸U.S.: 696
🇬🇧U.K.: 685
🇫🇷France: 563
vs.
🇰🇷South Korea: 9
🇨🇳China: 3
🇻🇳Vietnam: 0.36
[Chart shows data correct as of Oct. 30] trib.al/X4AUjxs
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This is not a subtweet of anyone in particular and it's going to annoy some people since I have a lot of PhD followers/friends and also I'm a stubborn guy myself but...one thing I'm noticed is that once someone gets a PhD, it become 10x harder to convince them they're wrong.
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Treating 那个 as having anything to do w/ racist language is the closest thing to racism going on here. To refuse to engage with Chinese culture & make the Chinese language conform to one's American experience is cultural ignorance at best--racism at worst.@USC should be ashamed.
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#Laura and #Marco are both forecast to be in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time as named storms (e.g., >=39 mph). If these forecasts verify, it would be only the 3rd time on record (since 1851) w/ 2 named storms in Gulf simultaneously. Other 2 times were 9/5/1933 & 6/18/1959.
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Submitted a paper to a @SpringerNature journal and was shocked with one of the reviewers' comments. Apparently, scientists outside the West are incapable of conducting competitive research on their own— we need Western scientists to hold our hand @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
ALT Screenshot of reviewer comment reading: "I think that to write papers that are competitive you should probably partner with more experienced authors in the western world. I understand that that might be difficult or impossible in SA, sorry."
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Coronavirus prompts Americans to reassess the need to reside near hot job markets.
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Every consumer can choose to buy, and bank, sustainably trib.al/IIdbF3c
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Apple touted research it commissioned showing the fees it collects from developers are similar to what other digital platforms charge on.wsj.com/32FfVvI
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“Most negotiators focus exclusively on maximizing the value of the deal at hand. In doing so, they often undermine the success of future negotiations — their own and those of their colleagues.” s.hbr.org/38DSNi8
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Fashion designers, labels and schools are ramping up efforts to strengthen the pipeline of Black talent with a goal of building a deep bench of talent to help ensure more-diverse workplaces on.wsj.com/3iKA9K3
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I signed the Harpers letter because there were lots of people who also signed the Harpers letter whose views I disagreed with. I thought that was the point of the Harpers letter.
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A statement signed by 150 people incl. Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie expresses concern over the illiberal trend intensified by our national reckoning.
harpers.org/a-letter-on-just…
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Soon we'll be living in an #AugmentedReality world. I'm guessing many of the holograms will be using the #freemium #pricing strategy. If you don't want to pay for the hologram it will be covered in Advertisements...
#FutureTech #AR #VR #AI #ML #Analytics
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Similar to the bank stress test applied after the 2008 crisis, a stress test for supply chains could help us weather future catastrophes. Here’s what that would look like. s.hbr.org/3erjh80