The Daily Stat: Unlike Computer Prices, Broadband Prices Hardly Fall

Are you having trouble viewing this email? If so, click here to see it in a web browser. HOME   |   BLOGS   |   THE MAGAZINE   |   BOOKS   |   AUTHORS   |   STORE RSS   |   Mobile AUGUST 24, 2011 Unlike Computer Prices, Broadband Prices Hardly Fall While prices of computers and other types of electronics typically fall by double digits each year, the quality-adjusted price of broadband declines only slightly, according to Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt of the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. Prices charged by U.S. cable and DSL companies rose a bit or stayed flat from 2004 through 2009, but increases in data speed led to quality-adjusted broadband price declines of about 2% per year, the researchers say. Source: Evidence of a Modest Price Decline in US Broadband Services Share Today's Stat: FEATURED PRODUCT Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy HBR Paperback Series Most companies waste billions of dollars on technology. Don't be one of them. If you need the best practices and ideas for unleashing technology's strategic potential—but don't have time to find them—this book is for you. Here are eight inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you: clarify corporate strategy with your IT department, fund only IT projects that support your strategy, transform IT investments into profits, build one technology platform for your entire organization, adopt new technologies only when their best practices are established, use analytics to make smart decisions at all levels of your company, and integrate social media into your business. ADVERTISEMENT Follow the Stat: BEST SELLERS HBR's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials HBR's Must Reads Library Set Guide to Persuasive Presentations Guide to Better Business Writing Guide to Getting the Right Work Done PREVIOUS STATS 15% of IT Change Projects Are Huge Money Sinks A Web Break Makes People More Productive Gay Men Earn Less, But Their Households Earn More Compulsive Web Use Hurts Marriages, but Frequent Webbing Helps Marriages Apologize or Thank? It Depends on Your Culture High Taxes Keep Good NBA Players Away Women in Emerging Markets Say They're Very Ambitious Powerful People More Likely to Be Unfaithful Checkout Lines Are Grocery Shoppers' Biggest Beef Guilt About Parents, Not Kids, Plagues Women in India, China Free HBR Interactive issue Download the iPad app HBR Reads, and get your issue with audio and video interviews and multimedia slideshows. Learn more » UNSUBSCRIBE   |   UPDATE YOUR PROFILE   |   MORE EMAIL NEWSLETTERS   |   PRIVACY POLICY Was this email forwarded to you? If so, sign up to start receiving your own copy. ABOUT THIS MAILING LIST You have received this message because you subscribed to the "The Daily Stat" email newsletter from Harvard Business Review. If at any point you wish to remove yourself from this list, change your email address, or sign up for other email newsletters and alerts, please visit the Harvard Business Review Email Newsletter Preference Center. OPT OUT If you do not wish to receive any email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. ADVERTISE WITH HBR This enewsletter is read by thousands of decision makers every day. Learn more about connecting your brand with this audience. Copyright © 2011 Harvard Business School Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing | 60 Harvard Way | Boston, MA 02163 Customer Service: 800-545-7685 (+1-617-783-7600 outside the U.S. and Canada)