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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions

By: Silvia Bellezza, Joshua M. Ackerman and Francesca Gino
Consumers are often faced with the opportunity to purchase a new, enhanced product (e.g., a new phone), even though the device they currently own is still fully functional. We propose that consumers act more recklessly with their current products and are less concerned... View Details
Keywords: Carelessness; Product Upgrade; Justification; Loss; Consumer Behavior; Attitudes; Product; Ownership
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Bellezza, Silvia, Joshua M. Ackerman, and Francesca Gino. "'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-077, April 2015.
  • October 2017
  • Article

'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions

By: Silvia Bellezza, Joshua M. Ackerman and Francesca Gino
Consumers are often faced with the opportunity to purchase a new, enhanced product, such as a new phone, even though the product they currently own is still fully functional. We propose that consumers act more recklessly with their current products when in the presence... View Details
Keywords: Carelessness; Product Upgrade; Ownership; Justification; Consumer Behavior; Attitudes; Property
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Bellezza, Silvia, Joshua M. Ackerman, and Francesca Gino. "'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 54, no. 5 (October 2017): 768–784.
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions

Keywords: by Silvia Bellezza, Joshua M. Ackerman, and Francesca Gino; Telecommunications
  • 15 Apr 2015
  • News

How looming product upgrades make us careless with what we have

  • 02 Dec 2016
  • News

Why We Are So Careless with the Things We Own?

  • 29 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Story of Why Humans Are So Careless With Their Phones

'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions ABOUT THE AUTHOR Comics journalist Josh Neufeld is the writer/artist of The New York Times bestseller A.D.: New Orleans After the... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Neufeld; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • News

People Make It So Hard to Ditch Plastic Straws

  • 18 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 18, 2016

the insights it provides. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51754 2016 Journal of Marketing Research 'Be Careless with That!' Availability of Product Upgrades Increases Cavalier Behavior Toward Possessions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

People Make It So Hard to Ditch Plastic Straws

By: Scott Duke Kominers
Rarely has a minor consumer product received more vilification than the plastic straw. As a symbol of human wastefulness and our careless disregard for the environment, straws are the near-perfect villain. You use a plastic straw once and toss it, but it stays with us... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior
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Kominers, Scott Duke. "People Make It So Hard to Ditch Plastic Straws." Bloomberg Opinion (July 15, 2019).
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

decades, says an intelligent failure differs from two other types of failures: a basic failure, which is caused by carelessness or ignorance, and a complex failure, which is caused by multiple factors, none of which would have caused the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

poor data, the lack of a control group, and careless analysis of the results. Experimentation on a large scale has worked for Booking.com, apparently. The Company has employed this strategy to gain the largest share of the traffic in its... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • Portrait Project

Sandy Ottensmann

My greatest discovery as a scientist began with a mistake. Months in the lab had proved futile, and I had just lost another day's work because of a careless mistake:  I used the wrong stopper to seal the flask.  Overnight, the internal... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

How to Fix Wall Street

plan to restore confidence in the financial sector and prevent a repeat of past mistakes must address the leadership and organizational failures that led to shoddy ethics and careless judgment in so many firms. While external regulation... View Details
Keywords: Lynn Paine; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Hierarchy's Last Stand

elite events such as Davos are still coveted, but those events are also broadly covered, including by the new anyone’s-a-journalist who carries a smartphone camera. Actions and conversations increasingly leave a digital trace, which has led to the downfall of View Details
Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services
  • 10 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

likely to divulge intimate facts and when we're apt to keep our lives to ourselves. In short, the initial findings indicate that individuals are both illogical and careless with their privacy on the web. "We show that people are prone to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

soundness of their banks, that product liability law has led consumers to be more careless in the way they use products, and so on. While many of these criticisms are probably exaggerated, it is undoubtedly true that moral hazard is a... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

the on-demand economy beyond the Uber model. Upgrades Make You Careless There’s a reason why you broke your iPhone-again-say Silvia Bellezza (DBA 2015) and Professor Francesa Gino. They report that people neglect possessions when they... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
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