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  • March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
  • Teaching Note

Camera IQ and the Metaverse: Building Augmented Reality Brand Experiences

By: Jill Avery
Camera IQ, a camera marketing software company that empowered brands to create and launch augmented reality experiences (AREs) across social platforms, had just raised an additional $5 million to fund further product development and expand its marketing and sales... View Details
Keywords: Brand Management; Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality; B2B; E-commerce; Technology Platform; Marketing; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Growth Management; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Social Media; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Advertising Industry; United States
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  • February 2017
  • Teaching Note

The Tate's Digital Transformation

By: Jill Avery
John Stack was the visionary Head of Digital Transformation at the Tate, a collection of four major art galleries in the UK, including Tate Modern, the most visited gallery devoted to modern and contemporary art in the world. Stack was the architect of the Tate’s... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Ecommerce; Experience; Customer Experience; Customer Relationship Management; Channel Management; Museums; Arts Marketing; Nonprofit; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Digital Marketing; Digital Strategy; Social Media; E-commerce; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Fine Arts Industry; England; United Kingdom; Europe
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  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

need, the new world for brands will have trust at its core. The mandate to brands from global consumers is clear: step up and help, not just your own customers and employees, but the world at large; protect all, support and care for all,... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • June 1999 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

Friendly Fenway Program, The: The Value of Experience Enhancement

By: Stephen A. Greyser
The marketing head of the Boston Red Sox is reviewing the team's "Friendly Fenway" fan satisfaction program. The program is described in the context of the team's on-the-field performance, the ballpark's character, and team marketing and fan-building in general. The... View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Revenue; Framework; Management; Marketing Reference Programs; Performance; Boston
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  • 14 Jan 2019
  • News

At LVMH’s Watch Division, Experience of a Different Kind

  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment

By: Lu Fang, Yanyou Chen, Chiara Farronato, Zhe Yuan and Yitong Wang
Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; E-commerce; Decision Choices and Conditions; Learning; Internet and the Web
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  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999), because "most practitioners have taken the concept of one-to-one marketing and bastardized it into CRM. They're using CRM tools to design better processes for a nonexistent... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact

By: Michelle A. Kinch and Ryan W. Buell
Prior research in social psychology has shown that when people feel anxious, they seek advice from others. However, companies that operate in high-anxiety settings (like financial services, health care, and education) are increasingly deploying self-service... View Details
Keywords: Anxiety; Self-service; Empirical Operations; Behavioral Operations; Communication Technology; Behavior; Customer Focus and Relationships; Trust; Satisfaction; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

broader array of role models, choosing bits and pieces from different people to create a customized model," she explains. The second form of experimenting that Ibarra documented was characterized by a... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

Democratic-leaning areas. And new customers of Black-owned businesses were more likely to be white, based on an analysis of reviewers’ profile photos, relative to prior customers. Luca and his coauthors also worked with Wayfair to analyze... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage
  • 10 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos

Consumers delight in using smartphones to record their experiences and surroundings, but for businesses, such devices present tricky challenges. Suppose a customer encounters a hair in her food, a spill in... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Food & Beverage; Air Transportation; Retail; Service
  • May–June 2023
  • Article

Which Firms Gain from Digital Advertising? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Weijia Dai, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Measuring the returns of advertising opportunities continues to be a challenge for many businesses. We design and run a field experiment in collaboration with Yelp across 18,294 firms in the restaurant industry to understand which types of businesses gain more from... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Digital Marketing; Outcome or Result
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  • Article

How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

By: Ilyana Kuziemko, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva
We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income tax rates and economic growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only... View Details
Keywords: Income; Taxation; Economic Growth; United States
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  • 25 Jun 2024
  • News

On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)

When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment. DePree joined Nordstrom in... View Details
Keywords: retail; customer service; supply chain management; career experience; Retail Trade
  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

price hikes than others. What does this mean in practice? Even if inflation is slowing down, depending on where you live and what you buy, you may not experience this slowing down to the same degree as the official measures suggest. Let’s... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • June 29, 2022
  • Other Article

Strategic Complexity? Using Experiments to Understand and Overcome Obfuscation

By: Michael Luca, Ginger Zhe Jin and Daniel Martin
Credit card companies must decide what product features to disclose to consumers, such as payment schedules, penalties, and fees--and also whether to present them clearly or bury them in the fine print. Firms face similar choices in settings ranging from privacy... View Details
Keywords: Obfuscation; Credit Cards; Strategic Incentives; Complexity; Agreements and Arrangements; Customers; Consumer Behavior; Financial Services Industry
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  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

that customers would have a great experience virtually every time they used the service—and they could then rely on customers to spread the news of that View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Creating the Shopping Experience of the Future

Production with Principles Áslaug Magnúsdóttir Customizing Couture Online Customizing Couture Online Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Katrina Lake Dressing by Number... View Details
Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; technology
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Using storytelling to transform the retail experience

stories about the exceptional artisans who craft the jewelry, accessories, items for babies and children, paper goods, and home decor. “The world isn’t about just selling stuff anymore, it’s about knowing your customer really well and... View Details
  • Web

MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

HBS offers a rich portfolio of opportunities for MBA students to tailor their social enterprise engagement, including academics, careers, community, and paths for social entrepreneurship. Academics First-year students take courses that incorporate social enterprise,... View Details