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- 06 Nov 2023
- Video
The Value of an MBA in Manufacturing, Consumer Products, and Retail
- January 2006
- Article
Reports of Solving the Conflicts of Interest in Auditing Are Highly Exaggerated
By: Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore, Philip E. Tetlock and Lloyd Tanlu
Bazerman, Max H., Don A. Moore, Philip E. Tetlock, and Lloyd Tanlu. "Reports of Solving the Conflicts of Interest in Auditing Are Highly Exaggerated." Academy of Management Review 31, no. 1 (January 2006).
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to... View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
Consumer Reviews and Regulation: Evidence from NYC Restaurants
By: Chiara Farronato and Georgios Zervas
We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants; Reviews; Hygiene; Yelp; Regulation; Food; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior
Farronato, Chiara, and Georgios Zervas. "Consumer Reviews and Regulation: Evidence from NYC Restaurants." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29715, February 2022.
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
advertising: the persuasive (building interest and awareness) and the informative (educating the consumer about product attributes). Separating these effects allowed Anand and Shachar to identify another,... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 1971
- Working Paper
A Simple General Equilibrium Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
By: Jerry R. Green
- Article
The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both
By: David A. Moss and Gibbs A. Johnson
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Moss, David A., and Gibbs A. Johnson. "The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both." American Bankruptcy Law Journal 73, no. 2 (Spring 1999): 311–351. (Winner of American Bankruptcy Law Journal Editors' Prize Given annually for the best article to appear in the journal.)
- 1998
- Working Paper
The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both?
By: David A. Moss and Gibbs A. Johnson
- Fast Answer
Health care: consumer expenditure
webpage also provides additional resources on the topic. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Consumer Expenditure Survey Provides information on the buying habits of American... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
trends? What do you think? Note: The term "consumer generated marketing" is derived from a term, "consumer-generated media," coined by Pete Blackshaw, chief marketing officer of Intelliseek, an Internet-based View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Oct 2014
- News
An interest in harnessing technology
Edmund Rogers (MBA 2015) wants to create sustainable businesses within the technology space that allow people to achieve their goals more efficiently. (Published October 2014) View Details
- November 1977
- Article
Nutrition and the American Consumer: A Survey of Interest Groups
By: J. Quelch and A. Clayton
- 22 Feb 2011
- News
How to refocus US mortgage interest relief
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
Catering to women consumers
Time Inc. former chairman and CEO Ann Moore (MBA 1978) changed the landscape of magazine publishing—and advertising—when she introduced Real Simple and InStyle. (Published January 2015) View Details
- Article
The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts
We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side analysts during the period mid-1997 and 2004. The buy-side firm's analysts issued less optimistic recommendations for stocks with larger... View Details
Keywords: Buy-side Analysts; Sell-side Analysts; Stock Recommendations; Recommendation Optimism; Recommendation Performance; Investment Recommendations; Conflicts Of Interest; Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; Stocks; Financial Services Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, Georgios Serafeim, Devin Shanthikumar, and Gui Yang. "The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (March 20, 2012).
- May 2019
- Article
Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls
By: Anne Heinrichs, Jihwon Park and Eugene F. Soltes
Using a set of proprietary records, we examine who consumes quarterly earnings conference calls and under which circumstances the calls are consumed. While there is significant interest in calls by institutional investors and sell-side analysts, we find that investors... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure; Conference Calls; Firm News; Corporate Disclosure; Business Earnings; Situation or Environment
Heinrichs, Anne, Jihwon Park, and Eugene F. Soltes. "Who Consumes Firm Disclosures? Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls." Accounting Review 94, no. 3 (May 2019): 205–231.
- Research Summary
Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations
Researchers debate the role of installed base, platform quality and consumer expectations in driving the success of platforms. We analyze these three factors in a dynamic model where a new entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Keywords: by Luis M. Viceira
- August 2012
- Article
Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness
By: Andrew Gershoff, Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan
Marketers often extend product lines by offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Production; Competency and Skills; Welfare or Wellbeing; Cost vs Benefits; Perception; Customers; Performance Evaluation; Fairness; Business Ventures
Gershoff, Andrew, Ran Kivetz, and Anat Keinan. "Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness." Journal of Consumer Research 39, no. 2 (August 2012): 382–398. (Selected in 2017 for JCR Research Curations on “Behavioral Pricing”.)
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
2008 hired a neuromarketing firm to look into how consumers respond to Cheetos, the top-selling brand of cheese puffs in the United States. Using EEG technology on a group of... View Details