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- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Spend Money on Other People
adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that material purchases are less satisfying than vacations or concerts); Make it a Treat (limiting access to our favorite things will View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto
large-scale adoption.” Yet while crypto investors might have a higher risk tolerance than more typical investors, in many ways they’re more mainstream than some might imagine, Di Maggio says. Crypto investors, he says, make decisions...
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by Ben Rand
- 18 May 2013
- News
Money might buy you happiness, if you spend it right
- 12 Dec 2022
- News
Is It Safe to Buy Now, Pay Later?
- 2018
- Article
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...
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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.
- July 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing
By: Peter Tufano
Kinecta Federal Credit Union has the opportunity to purchase Nix Check Cashing as part of their "blue ocean" strategy to reach the financially underserved and increase credit union membership and deposits. But they face financial as well as reputational risk. Check...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Credit;
Financing and Loans;
Personal Finance;
Strategic Planning;
Partners and Partnerships;
Reputation;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Tufano, Peter, and Andrea Ryan. "Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing." Harvard Business School Case 210-012, July 2009. (Revised July 2009.)
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
until the middle of the next century.25 Pawnbrokers everywhere strove to make themselves instantly recognizable to persons, including illiterate ones, desperate for quick cash. In China, pawnbrokers hung a distinctive decorative staff...
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)
didactic message, makes The Usurer’s Grip a period piece. But its plot and the plight of its protagonists are eerily modern. Nearly one hundred years ago, unwary borrowing from unscrupulous lenders had the power to drive a family to the...
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- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says...
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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...
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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.
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
that, few newspapers have the historical cachet of the Washington Post—and therefore more to lose from making the wrong call. So news of the Post's ownership changing hands from the Graham family to Amazon's Jeff Bezos—after seven...
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- 09 Mar 2018
- News
Cigna to Buy Express Scripts in $52 Billion Health Care Deal
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Glen. Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1999). Chutkow, Paul. Visa: The Power of an Idea, 1st ed. (Chicago, IL: Harcourt, 2001). Clarke, Sally H. Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern...
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- 06 Oct 2016
- News
You may not have to haggle for the next car you buy
- 12 Jan 2019
- News
How Hubert Joly aims to turn Best Buy into a 'happiness' company
- 09 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance
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by Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan
- 08 Aug 2019
- News
The story of how you came to buy that car
- 25 Jan 2022
- News