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- 2013
- Case
Hindustan Unilever Limited: Meeting Employee Expectations
By: Shashank Shah, Ajith Sankar and David Sharpe
- March–April 2013
- Article
Expected Firm Altruism, Quality Provision, and Brand Extensions
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A setting is considered where consumers keep track of the extent to which brands care about them, which is modeled as altruism of brands towards their target consumers. Consumers who purchase an experience good of high quality reasonably deduce that the supplier of... View Details
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Expected Firm Altruism, Quality Provision, and Brand Extensions." Marketing Science 32, no. 2 (March–April 2013): 325–341.
- 23 Apr 2021
- News
Expect high product prices amid pandemic, trade disruptions
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
attractive. Why? The reason might be an increasing willingness on the part of consumers to identify with the underdog. In today's economically difficult times, it appears, underdog brands are gaining psychological, and real, power in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
that consumers often feel overwhelmed by the topic of finances. They don’t feel as if they are in control. In other aspects of their life—for instance, in their shopping habits—consumers have access to a lot of information that in turn... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
More Companies Raising Prices on Goods, Expected throughout 2021
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
for behavior, and draws on concepts and techniques from neuroscience to inform her research in marketing. For corporations, on the other hand, the science is a means to an end goal of selling more stuff. But the tools, once restricted to biomedical research, are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
sensors, like smart watches, and telemedicine, which is a companion to these sensors. Both have become more powerful and more acceptable to consumers and to the health care industry, which has resisted these innovations for a long time. I... View Details
Keywords: April White
- November 2007
- Article
A Model of Consumer Learning for Service Quality and Usage
By: Raghuram Iyengar, Asim Ansari and Sunil Gupta
In many services, e.g., the wireless service industry, consumers choose a service plan based on their expected consumption. In such situations, consumers experience two forms of uncertainty. First, consumers may be uncertain about the quality of their service provider... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Value and Value Chain; Learning; Price; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Service Delivery; Quality; Risk and Uncertainty; Service Industry
Iyengar, Raghuram, Asim Ansari, and Sunil Gupta. "A Model of Consumer Learning for Service Quality and Usage." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 44, no. 4 (November 2007): 529–544.
- January 2004
- Background Note
Why Developers Don't Understand Why Consumers Don't Buy
Looks at the psychological biases developers bring to the new product development process. Identifies three reasons why developers may do a poor job of identifying the demand for an innovative, new concept or product: (1) the self-selection bias, (2) differing initial... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
If companies are willing to embrace a new model of health coverage—one that places control over costs and care directly in the hands of employees—the competitive forces that spur productivity and innovation in consumer markets can be... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- November 2020 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
HP Instant Ink: (Self) Disrupting the Consumer Printing Market
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg and George Gonzalez
Seeking to disrupt the consumer printing market (before being disrupted by others), and in response to customer pain points, in 2013 HP Inc. launched an ink replenishment service called Instant Ink, where customers pay a monthly subscription fee based on the number of... View Details
Keywords: Printing; Ink; Subscription Model; Customers; Information Infrastructure; Service Delivery; Business Model; Disruption; Growth and Development Strategy
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, and George Gonzalez. "HP Instant Ink: (Self) Disrupting the Consumer Printing Market." Harvard Business School Case 521-016, November 2020. (Revised September 2021.)
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia
Consumer product makers looking to sell in Asia cannot expect the relative homogeneity they find in the U.S. or European countries, according to the panelists at the "Consumer Marketing in Asia"... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- February 2021
- Article
Topic Classification of Electric Vehicle Consumer Experiences with Transformer-Based Deep Learning
By: Sooji Ha, Daniel J Marchetto, Sameer Dharur and Omar Isaac Asensio
The transportation sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is a driver of adverse health effects globally. Increasingly, government policies have promoted the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to mitigate GHG emissions.... View Details
Keywords: Natural Language Processing; Analytics and Data Science; Environmental Sustainability; Infrastructure; Transportation; Policy
Ha, Sooji, Daniel J Marchetto, Sameer Dharur, and Omar Isaac Asensio. "Topic Classification of Electric Vehicle Consumer Experiences with Transformer-Based Deep Learning." Art. 100195. Patterns 2, no. 2 (February 2021).
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
In recent years, consumer review sites including Yelp, Citysearch, and TripAdvisor have become the first stop for recommendations on everything from dinner to dentists. Along the way, they've earned a loyal following from fans, but also... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
What's in a name? Plenty if you're a consumer marketer trying to build a brand. "They are road signs that help people find orientation in the jungle of supply", said Hans G. Gueldenberg, CEO of Nestlé Deutschland AG. According... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
largest consumer debt in the US, trailing only mortgage loans—and surpassing car loans, credit card debt, and home equity lines of credit. Source: New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax Many people who... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
percent or less for bad service. That was the expectation up until COVID.” However, “post-COVID,” as businesses came back from pandemic-induced lockdowns, consumer behavior shifted. “Consumers started to... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health... View Details