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Prosocial Spending and Buying Time: Money as a Tool for Increasing Subjective Well-Being
By: Elizabeth Dunn, A.V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton and Lara B. Aknin
Researchers have long been interested in the relationship between income and happiness, but a newer wave of work suggests that how people use their money also matters. We discuss the three primary areas in which psychologists have explored the relationship... View Details
Dunn, Elizabeth, A.V. Whillans, Michael I. Norton, and Lara B. Aknin. "Prosocial Spending and Buying Time: Money as a Tool for Increasing Subjective Well-Being." Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 61 (2020): 67–126.
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology
the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “The ratings given by the large commercial ratings agencies are on the whole remarkably exact.” — Peter P. Wahlstad, Credit and the Credit... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits In addition to its print publications, the Russell Sage Foundation also harnessed the new medium of film to... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
time. Moreover, the difficulty with which most storekeepers finally obtained payment suggests how casually many early Yankees treated their debts. Christopher Clark has found that “rural customers were accustomed to paying for goods as it was convenient, with whatever... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Beautiful credit, the foundation of modern society!” — Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (1873)... View Details
- 13 Aug 2018
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Under CEO Hubert Joly, Best Buy Moving Forward In The Age Of Amazon
- 06 Aug 2009
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Buy Local? The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Manuscript Collections Printed Collections Visual Collections Secondary Resources Credits Bacheller, Irving. Keeping up with Lizzie; Charge It (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911 and 1912). Full text available as a networked resource. Darrow, Edward N. A Treatise View Details
- 03 May 2021
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The Best Buy Turnaround: Purpose-Driven Leadership with Hubert Joly
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Visual Collections
creditors and debtors. The collection consists of more than one thousand woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs from Western Europe and the United States, on the subjects of money, banking, and... View Details
- 2023
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The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment
By: Darren Aiello, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson and Jason Kotter
This paper uses transaction-level data across millions of accounts to identify cryptocurrency investors and evaluate how fluctuations in individual crypto wealth affect household consumption, equity investment, and local real estate markets. We estimate an MPC out of... View Details
Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Marginal Propensity To Consume; Household Balance Sheet; Real Estate; Etherium; Bitcoin; Investment; Housing; Spending
Aiello, Darren, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson, and Jason Kotter. "The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-077, June 2023.
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Buying a Small Business Pt1: General (For HBS Alumni)
I need a general overview about how to buy a small business. Where can I start? You may begin with the following: HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy... View Details
- 24 Dec 2018
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Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly has nothing to sell you
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections
Manuscript Collections Printed Collections Visual Collections Secondary Resources Credits Kress Collection of Business and Economics Guide to Using the Collection The Kress Collection contains dozens of rare books and pamphlets on pawn... View Details
- 2015
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Build It, Buy It or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services
By: Alvin J. Silk and Marta M. Stiglin
This paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build and buy to... View Details
Silk, Alvin J., and Marta M. Stiglin. "Build It, Buy It or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-093, June 2015.
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
Manuscript Collections Printed Collections Visual Collections Secondary Resources Credits Jacob Adams Account Book, 1673-1693 Full text available as a networked resource Jacob Adams, a New England cobbler and farmer in Newbury, Massachusetts, recorded a web of credits... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts
the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits As pioneers of the nascent information industry, the nineteenth-century credit ratings firms survived near-fatal attacks on several fronts.... View Details
- 2018
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Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time
By: A. V. Whillans, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their money in this way. Because most people believe that the future will be less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Choice; Sharing Economy; Opportunity Cost; Time-as Money; Well-being; Time Management; Happiness; Perception; Behavior
Whillans, A. V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton. "Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time." Social Influence 13, no. 2 (2018): 117–124.
- 14 Nov 2019
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