Consumer Politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

certain developing countries because the countries failed to meet certain standards for political stability, human rights, market regulation, etc. The new principles-based approach would allow CalPERS money managers to invest in companies... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 May 2014
News

Inside Africa

look like when she was an investment banker. Originally from Los Angeles, Clarke is a “triple-winner” at Harvard, having earned her undergraduate, law, and business degrees from the University. While interest in such areas as constitutional law, public protection, and... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

the effects of various political campaign activities on voter preferences in the domain of U.S. Presidential elections. We construct a comprehensive data set that covers the three most recent elections, with detailed records of voter... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

that the tire grading system was close to becoming a reality. Second, Joan Claybrook, a former Nader consumer interest group lobbyist, had just become head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the agency within the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

cable franchises, media company managers could leverage their knowledge of local communities and their political processes. However, some companies avoided franchising: their executives worried that the need to influence city officials... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

2001. In 1990 the German consumer goods company Benkiser began acquiring fragrance and cosmetics brands with the intent of developing a beauty business. These included the long-established, but relatively small, U.S. fragrance company... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 28

marketing organization, selling 46 products, including pouched milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and infant food through a million retailers across the country, and is the market leader in almost all the categories in which it operates. Amul is well known among Indian... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

consumer trend or technological development may be emerging in Germany or Japan, not your home market," Bartlett says. "Having eyes and ears around the world is critical, as is having the response capabilities to tap into the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

January 2023
Supplement

Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)

By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh and Christian Godwin

In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, Apple and Google partnered to develop a contact tracing application that would collect information about users infected with the disease and notify those who they had been in contact with. While Apple/Google’s... View Details

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October 2014
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Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer

For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details

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20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves

provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re not a View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

market based on free riding produce high-quality products? Third, from a public policy perspective, does the mandatory sharing of enhancements raise or lower consumer surplus and industry profits? We develop a two-sided model of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

political process allows these taxes—or subsidies—to be hidden in rules, regulations, and foreign policy decisions. "The resulting market prices for energy should be enforced in international trade with border tariffs," Lassiter... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

01 Sep 2020
News

The Devil You Don’t Know

capacity. In illustrating this point in a book on macroeconomics that I wrote a number of years ago, I quoted three people: President Herbert Hoover, who was the US president when the Great Depression started; President Franklin Roosevelt, who succeeded him and was... View Details

October 2020 (Revised November 2023)
Case

COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull

In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the... View Details

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15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

turnout among those who would have registered anyway. On the contrary, citizens registered due to the visits became more interested in the elections, and 93% voted at least once in 2012. Overall, these results suggest that easing registration requirements could... View Details

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2016
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September 13, 2016

Samsung, however, has succeeded by its ability to strike a balance between the two. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51604 in press Journal for the Association of Consumer Research Family Rituals Improve... View Details

21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

phrases in content on U.S. political issues from two sources-Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia. Our overall slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democrat (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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First Look: May 19, 2009

Inside Africa

First Look: July 14, 2015

First Look: February 20, 2007

First Look: February 25

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

First Look: August 12, 2008

First Look at New Research, March 28

The Death of the Global Manager

Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)

Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

Smart Moves

First Look: January 4

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

The Devil You Don’t Know

COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell

March 15, 2016

March 29, 2016

September 13, 2016

First Look: October 21