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- March 2018
- Article
In Pursuit of Enhanced Customer Retention Management: Review, Key Issues, and Future Directions
By: Eva Ascarza, Scott A. Neslin, Oded Netzer, Zachery Anderson, Peter S. Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David T. Neal, Foster Provost and Rom Schrift
In today’s turbulent business environment, customer retention presents a significant challenge for many service companies. Academics have generated a large body of research that addresses part of that challenge—with a particular focus on predicting customer churn.... View Details
Ascarza, Eva, Scott A. Neslin, Oded Netzer, Zachery Anderson, Peter S. Fader, Sunil Gupta, Bruce Hardie, Aurelie Lemmens, Barak Libai, David T. Neal, Foster Provost, and Rom Schrift. "In Pursuit of Enhanced Customer Retention Management: Review, Key Issues, and Future Directions." Special Issue on 2016 Choice Symposium. Customer Needs and Solutions 5, nos. 1-2 (March 2018): 65–81.
- July 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Supplement
Managing Customer Retention at Teleko
By: Eva Ascarza
This exercise aims to teach students about 1)Targeting Policies; and 2)Algorithmic decision making, 3) Retention management. View Details
- October 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Store24 (A): Managing Employee Retention
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Provides a retailing context in which employee retention strategies are explored through analyzing detailed store-level data. View Details
Keywords: Retention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Analytics and Data Science; Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Store24 (A): Managing Employee Retention." Harvard Business School Case 602-096, October 2001. (Revised October 2017.)
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
Summing Up What is the time and place for retention bonuses? Retention bonuses have their time and place but have to be used sparingly, according to many respondents to this month's column. Others were not... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- November 2022 (Revised February 2024)
- Exercise
Managing Customer Retention at Teleko
By: Eva Ascarza
This exercise aims to teach students about 1) Targeting Policies; and 2) Algorithmic decision making, and 3) Retention management. View Details
Ascarza, Eva. "Managing Customer Retention at Teleko." Harvard Business School Exercise 523-005, November 2022. (Revised February 2024.)
- February 1995
- Article
Chi no Souzou ni yoru Customer Retention (Customer Retention through Knowledge Creation)
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Chi no Souzou ni yoru Customer Retention (Customer Retention through Knowledge Creation)." Hitotsubashi bijinesu rebyū [Hitotsubashi Business Review] (February 1995).
- October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
Managing Customer Retention at Teleko
By: Eva Ascarza and Ta-Wei Huang
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 523-005. View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
The Twofold Effect of Customer Retention in Freemium Settings
- January 2008 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
Pilgrim Bank (B): Customer Retention (TN)
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Teaching Note for [602095]. View Details
- October 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Supplement
Managing Customer Retention at Teleko
By: Eva Ascarza and Ta-Wei Huang
- October 2001 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
Pilgrim Bank (B): Customer Retention
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Pilgrim Bank (B): Customer Retention." Harvard Business School Supplement 602-095, October 2001. (Revised October 2017.)
- February 2018
- Article
Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective.
By: Eva Ascarza
Companies in a variety of sectors are increasingly managing customer churn proactively, generally by detecting customers at the highest risk of churning and targeting retention efforts towards them. While there is a vast literature on developing churn prediction models... View Details
Keywords: Retention/churn; Proactive Churn Management; Field Experiments; Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Machine Learning; Customer Relationship Management; Risk Management
Ascarza, Eva. "Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 55, no. 1 (February 2018): 80–98.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games
By: Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Julian Runge
One of the most crucial aspects and significant levers that gaming companies possess in designing
digital games is setting the level of difficulty, which essentially regulates the user’s ability to
progress within the game. This aspect is particularly significant in... View Details
Keywords: Freemium; Retention/churn; Field Experiment; Field Experiments; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Mobile App; Mobile App Industry; Monetization; Monetization Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Customers; Retention; Product Design; Strategy
Ascarza, Eva, Oded Netzer, and Julian Runge. "Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-062, November 2020. (Revised December 2023.)
- 20 Dec 2022
- Op-Ed
Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation
Can there be corporate democracy if employees can’t vote on the actions its companies take? Yes, and it’s needed now more than ever. The pandemic has brought much employee discontent and activism. Last January, for example, with one-third of the staff at a Starbucks in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Popularity Profiles: How Customers' Use of a Long-Tail Assortment Relates to their Service Retention
By: Anita Elberse and David A. Schweidel
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management
- Article
The Cost Structure, Customer Profitability, and Retention Implications of Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel
By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
This paper uses the context of online banking to investigate the consequences of employing self-service distribution channels to alter customer interactions with the firm. Using a sample of retail banking customers observed over a 30-month period at a large U.S. bank,... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Service Operations; Distribution Channels; Consumer Behavior; Internet and the Web; Banks and Banking; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Market Transactions; Market Participation; Profit; Retail Industry; Banking Industry; United States
Campbell, Dennis, and Frances X. Frei. "The Cost Structure, Customer Profitability, and Retention Implications of Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel." Management Science 56, no. 1 (January 2010): 4–24. (Lead Article.)
- Forthcoming
- Article
Improving Customer Compatibility with Tradeoff Transparency
By: Ryan W. Buell and MoonSoo Choi
Through a large-scale field experiment with 393,036 customers considering opening a credit card account with a nationwide retail bank, we investigate how providing transparency into an offering’s tradeoffs affects subsequent rates of customer acquisition and long-run... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Customer Selection; Customer Compatibility; Retention; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Communications; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Banking Industry; Australia
Buell, Ryan W., and MoonSoo Choi. "Improving Customer Compatibility with Tradeoff Transparency." Management Science (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 8, 2024.)
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Eva Ascarza
Professor Ascarza’s research primarily focuses on providing researchers and marketers a better understanding of how to manage customer retention so as to reduce churn and increase firm’s profitability. She addresses these issues by building empirical models of customer... View Details
- May 2004
- Article
The Risky Business of Hiring Stars
With the battle for the best and brightest people heating up again, you're most likely out there looking for first-rate talent in the ranks of your competitors. Chances are, you're sold on the idea of recruiting from outside your organization, since developing people... View Details
Keywords: Staffing; Employee Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employees; Retention; Competitive Advantage; Human Resources; Performance
Groysberg, Boris, Ashish Nanda, and Nitin Nohria. "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 5 (May 2004): 92–100.
- February 2019 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Sales Force Management at Nobel Ilac
By: Doug J. Chung and Gamze Yucaoglu
Nobel Ilac was a Turkish generic pharmaceutical company marketing more than 100 drugs in 20 countries and, as of 2017, had over 2,500 employees worldwide. Nobel had implemented a transformation strategy—more specifically, a customer segmentation plan—whereby the sales... View Details
Keywords: Sales Strategy; Compensation; Employee Retention; Recruiting; Pharmaceuticals; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Organizational Design; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Retention; Recruitment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Turkey
Chung, Doug J., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Sales Force Management at Nobel Ilac." Harvard Business School Case 519-067, February 2019. (Revised July 2019.)