When Retail Discounts Encourage Customers to Buy Less
Merchants should be careful with the quantity limits they set on sale items.
When Retail Discounts Encourage Customers to Buy LessHow rethinking deadlines could save managers time and money
Managers may be overestimating the time it takes to complete a task—and overpaying contractors in the process.
A long deadline makes managers think a task is more involved.
Indranil Goswami and Oleg Urminsky, “More Time, More Work: How Non-diagnostic Time Limits Bias Estimates of Project Duration and Scope,” Working paper, March 2014.
Merchants should be careful with the quantity limits they set on sale items.
When Retail Discounts Encourage Customers to Buy LessTime periods that cross more boundaries feel longer, and people behave accordingly.
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