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- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
Consumers today have more control than ever over the way they choose goods and services—from browsing freely at grocery stores to managing their own financial assets. Perhaps View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From there she went to the Pratt Institute for a master’s degree in View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
to be like this. About twenty years ago, managed care was widely viewed as the silver bullet that would curb cost increases while ensuring patients good and convenient treatment. But managed care has been a bust. The original HMO... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- March 2017 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Interline Brands: Don't Stop Believing
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
Interline Brands, a leading distributor of residential housing maintenance and repair parts and equipment in the U.S., had just held its November 2014 board meeting. The meeting had been productive but not without some soul searching for both the company’s management... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity Exit; Consumer Goods; IPO; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Decision Choices and Conditions
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Ricardo Andrade. "Interline Brands: Don't Stop Believing." Harvard Business School Case 217-061, March 2017. (Revised July 2019.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers
By: Tetyana Balyuk and Emily Williams
We assess the impact that real time money transfer technology has on consumer outcomes, particularly during periods of financial fragility. We do this by developing a new data set that documents use of Zelle—the most widely used P2P money transfer technology in the... View Details
Keywords: P2P Money Transfers; Real Time Payments; Fintech; Finance; Information Technology; Personal Finance; Financial Condition
Balyuk, Tetyana, and Emily Williams. "Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers." Working Paper, November 2021.
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
years, sectors as diverse as automobiles, semiconductors, steel, textiles, consumer electronics, tires, and pharmaceuticals have been afflicted by overcapacity and some or all of its unpleasant side effects: loss of jobs, plant closings,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- February 1996
- Case
Spartan Stores Incorporated: Reengineering for Efficient Consumer Response
Describes an effort to rationalize operations at a leading grocery wholesaler, enabled by information systems. Spartan Stores, Inc., is cooperatively owned by its 238 retailers and, through training, consulting, systems support, and cost of goods efficiencies, strives... View Details
McKenney, James L., and William Schiano. "Spartan Stores Incorporated: Reengineering for Efficient Consumer Response." Harvard Business School Case 396-263, February 1996.
- 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" panel at the HBS Asia Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 07 May 2020
- News
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
- December 2017 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Kellogg Company/eighteen94 capital
By: David Bell, Damien McLoughlin and Natalie Kindred
With 33,000 employees and revenues of $13 billion in 2016, Kellogg Company was the world’s largest producer of branded packaged cereal and a leader in branded convenience foods. Founded in 1906 and based in Michigan, the company had a proud history of product and... View Details
Keywords: CPG; Consumer Packaged Goods; Cereal; Battle Creek; Michigan; Breakfast; Snack; Agribusiness; Change Management; Growth Strategy; Corporate Venture Capital; Innovation; Startup; Brand; Brand ＆ Product Management; Advertising; Demand and Consumers; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Food; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Michigan; North America
Bell, David, Damien McLoughlin, and Natalie Kindred. "Kellogg Company/eighteen94 capital." Harvard Business School Case 518-061, December 2017. (Revised March 2018.)
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Candy That Is Good for You
we knew there was room to really get in there and disrupt and innovate. “The response has been overwhelmingly positive. Consumers are thrilled to have finally found an alternative to the artificial gums they've been having up until now.... View Details
How to Make Climate Risk Good Business
The risk profiles of many real estate markets are rapidly increasing globally. Insurers and mortgage brokers are taking note and adjusting their offering based on widely available climate data and predictive analytics. John Macomber suggests that consumers and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting artisans in developing countries to businesses and View Details
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
Jacoline Loewen pointed out that "Asking the customer's opinion is great for quality control check(s), but for creative strategy get beyond the client." Gerald Nanninga commented that "consumers are very good at explaining frustrations... View Details
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
purposes of the experiment, participants had no information other than the data in the original applications. In this way, the researchers could determine whether they made good decisions without the benefit of hindsight. In addition to... 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
- 01 Oct 2012
- News
Good News in Jobs: Ad-Supported Internet Economy Doubles
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
engage in CSR—perhaps consumers will pay a premium for specific sustainably produced products; or perhaps having an environmentally responsible image will help in recruiting top talent. "And of course," he emphasizes, "there is also the... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods
By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-defined... View Details
Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web
Cavallo, Alberto, Brent Neiman, and Roberto Rigobon. "Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-040, January 2019.
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Tapon (MBA 1997) REISNER: More than email itself, what really had an impact was the loss of first-class mail to electronic bill paying, starting in 2008. But the point is a good one, and 3D printing is likely to cause substantial change... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint