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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
result of digitization.” To the contrary, book consumption overall has remained stable over the last two decades. What digitization has really done is expand our ability to reach our consumers. How has digitization changed the ways in... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US oil View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
They want the “warm glow”—to feel good from doing it. They want to signal something about themselves—that they are nice, for instance, or that they hold certain political tendencies. Volunteering is—or perhaps increasingly can be—a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
The expression “letting the fox guard the henhouse” comes to mind when you first hear about Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, where a product manufacturer actually places orders for the retailer, determining quantities based upon View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
money left over for personal spending. But does that make their decision any less significant? It doesn’t feel right to quantify it that way. What do you think? Do you ever seriously consider downsizing your lifestyle, material possessions, and overall View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious nonprofit with the dual aims of... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
consumption of local, sustainably produced food.” That mission was inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
consumers. Comparing eight areas of policy — product liability law, product safety standards and recall, misleading advertising, comparative product tests, product labeling, quality standards, consumer contracts, and pricing — Trumbull shows that different conceptions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
What do men want? The conventional theory — the so–called compensatory consumption thesis — has held that men are torn between responsibility and domesticity on the one hand and a desire to live the untethered, exciting life of the rebel... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
consumption increased by only 6 percent from 2010 to 2018, these sprawling facilities are now on track to double their electricity demand in the next two years, thanks to AI. This energy- intensive boom poses an expensive challenge for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
Video Embed The Esquel Group has reduced water consumption at its factories by more than 50 percent in the last nine years. Asia–based Esquel Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts, producing about 100... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
some sort of compensation for it—through donations or subscriptions. That is the path forward. How is social media changing the consumption of information and the consumer’s ability to access a diversity of ideas? —Janet Simpson Benvenuti... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
WWE’s pay-per-view model wasn’t failing. It was still a viable model. But as Wilson began diving deep into consumer habits after joining WWE 10 years ago, she saw some distinct trend lines: “Our fan base was over-indexed for video View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Gunnar Trumbull Cambridge University Press This book traces the historical emergence of modern consumer lending in America and France. Comparison of the two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not a consequence of its culture of View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
and electric vehicles, and ride sharing. They also spoke in favor of smart agriculture and plant-heavy diets. Beef consumption is especially challenging, they said, as demand for protein to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
companies, and others. Given these very different industries and consumption contexts, I was curious to see if there is variation in how people behave in these situations, what explains that variation, and whether sellers could subtly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
how over the next thirty years the world is going to go through a bottleneck because of population and consumption growth. If we don’t make commitments now to conserve endangered places, they won’t be here thirty years from now. But... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
sense of fulfillment and purpose. Her first law or principle is that stories matter. We are all living in the story of scarcity—the story that tells us we don’t have enough. We want more and more, perpetuating a vicious cycle of View Details