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- 20 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle
an aspirational lifestyle. “The new conspicuous consumption is about saying, I am the scarce resource, and therefore I am valuable” The finding suggests a new way for marketers to sell their products and services to consumers by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
could those returns be taxed much more than so-called "earned" income? Or should a progressive consumption tax be considered, as suggested by New York Times columnist David Brooks? In his words, the purpose would be to lift... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 05 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience
Make it a Treat (limiting access to our favorite things will make us keep appreciating them); Buy Time (focusing on time over money yields wiser purchases); Pay Now, Consume Later (delayed consumption leads to increased enjoyment); and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position." Marketers as well as politicians have doubtless helped to distort the meaning of the Dream. A barrage of commercial advertising encourages people to focus on the acquisition and View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
the 1800s, the American economy embarked on a long, slow transition from a system in which most goods and services were produced for household consumption or local sale to an economy in which commodities were produced for a larger... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
have an edge in their markets. These firms are “more innovative—stronger at anticipating shifts in consumer needs and consumption patterns that make new products and services possible, potentially generating a competitive edge.” Of equal... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
across workers in their preference to work from home, experience with remote learning, entertainment, and consumption will also shape consumer attitudes toward digital and physical experiences. Differences in consumer preferences may... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Markets," looks at a wide range of practices, legal and illegal, from dwarf tossing to slavery to California's ban on the human consumption of horse meat, and asks how economists can find a common language, if not a common point of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
production is incredibly resource intensive and that even a small shift in consumption and production can have a massive impact on greenhouse gas emissions. From there, Karen Skelton, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy at the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
can benefit What business leaders might find especially interesting about the research results: Many rituals that couples perform involve some form of joint consumption of products or services. In one study, 64 percent of the rituals... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
a discussion on Accounting for Social Insurance (PV): http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/si_newsrelease.pdf Of course, dependency ratios are not reduced without other economic and social effects. For example, to the extent that current View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
“Household routines involved making fewer things and purchasing more; consumption became a major part of the work of the household,” cultural historian Susan Strasser asserts. “Formerly customers , purchasing the objects of daily life... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
work around the relationship between local news consumption and social cohesion. We’re thinking about how to build some of those social cohesion measures into the communities that we’re investing in so that we can understand the... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
of this research is not that graphic labels are the answer to all of our consumption problems,” she says, “but we do find that they shift people to water at least in the short run, and we think that’s a pretty cool result.” San... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
company, programmed the routes for the trucks to turn right as much as possible therefore not waiting for clear left turns, thus reducing ICE idle. The fuel savings were huge—profit, and the reduced CO2 contribution likewise. And Coca Cola, which figured out how to... View Details
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
human decision making, motivation, and interaction, which of course have strong implications for what drives consumption and savings decisions, worker productivity and effort, and market exchange. Only rarely did he make deep links to... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
industry: What consumer needs cannot be satisfied by e-commerce? What is the most effective use of store-level assets to offer a unique shopping experience? In the current environment, online shopping cannot satisfy the desire for instant View Details