Consumer Politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

the discouraging trends she sees are political and religious attacks that stifle science and innovation; growing unease and pressure in the workplace; too few companies recognizing obligations to their communities as well as to their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

What are the opportunities and risks for businesses in Taiwan, as "greater China" becomes integrated economically but with greater tension politically and militarily? In short, where is China going—economically and politically—and what... View Details

11 Jan 2019
News

Case Study: Beating Bias

school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized he (like many others) had been consuming media that only confirmed his own political bias and, in so doing, had failed to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Taiwan

keyword and geography keywords in search (ex: commodities Taiwan). Search tips: use concise keywords. Go to "Analysis" section for full industry reports; Go to "Consumers" section to brows reports on View Details

28 Sep 2018
News

Pushing Progress at Panasonic

Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) When he was fresh out of engineering school in 1980, Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) got a job at Panasonic. He left just as the View Details

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Rocio Parra

Why was getting a business education important to you? As a consultant, I had the opportunity to work in a variety of industries from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to government and consumer packaged goods. Through these... View Details

Keywords: Retail

01 Jun 2014
News

Ready for Takeoff

Santos-Dumont—not the Wright brothers—made the first manned flight in 1906.) Twenty years ago, this kind of consumer class would have been unthinkable. "In 1994, Brazil was really stuck in the mud," says Jorge Domínguez, Harvard's vice... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these systems challenge the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
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Can China Lead?

Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details

04 Mar 2009
Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

their income for housing, and rejecting "credit-impaired" borrowers with less-than-stellar records. Credit card companies have raised fees and increased penalties. Consumers have emerged as both victims and perpetrators. They... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

prompted a greater demand for food testing in order to verify the authenticity of the claims. Increasing consumer consciousness about food safety and healthfulness: Consumers have high expectations about the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

participants get from price discrimination—even for those firms that currently get the biggest discounts. [ ] Simplified Billing. A fundamental function of pricing is to convey information to consumers and competitors. Current billing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their firms’ bottom lines. Business leaders like Tim Cook of Apple, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Marc Benioff of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2008
Working Paper

Where Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson and Peter Tufano

In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their degree of revealed credit constraints. Specifically, we analyze how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Credit; Personal Finance; Spending; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; United States

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Drake Du | MBA

AI, venture capital, consumer technology Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: At a time when political polarization seems to be the new normal, donations fuel rhetoric, and... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Books

Global e-Business Leader at Braxton, formerly Deloitte Consulting) urge managers to think as though they were settlers of a new business frontier that has been carved out by forces such as technology, societal change, political strife,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

executives need to figure out how the product, labor, and capital markets work—and don't work—in their target countries. This will help them understand the differences between home markets and those in developing countries. In addition, each country's social and View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

viable choices for search advertising.” Serious harms occur to others if Yahoo's ad platform disintegrates. Consumers benefit from diversity in ad platforms so that no single platform can unduly restrict the information available to... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

consumers and producers, and such changes typically required the mobilization of political power to overcome resistance to such changes. In order to support such developmental changes, the View Details