Columbia Business School's Norman Eig Professor of Business Eric J. Johnson shares insights from his research into how the structure of choices affects outcomes.
What makes HSBC’s global advertising campaign truly distinctive is the brilliant implementation of a “glocalized” strategy — keeping a consistent execution across multiple countries, while maintaining a local flavor in its message at each airport.
Diverse life experiences, such as those of formerly incarcerated individuals, are an often overlooked key to the divergent thinking that creative agencies seek to foster. A new agency, ConCreates, seeks to fill that gap.
NEW YORK, NY – For decades, marketers have believed that consumers form opinions on products and services only when they have a decision to make when choosing between a new pair of shoes, deciding on a snack at the grocery store, or picking a hotel for an upcoming trip. But recent research shows that consumers are surprisingly eager to express their likes and dislikes – they often evaluate products and services even when there is no decision at stake. This is because people derive a subtle pleasure from expressing that they like or dislike something. In research by Columbia Business School, Professor Michel Tuan Pham, the Kravis Professor of Business, finds that consumers often evaluate products or brands to derive pleasure rather than to make a decision, frequently rendering their evaluations in a seemingly gratuitous fashion.
NEW YORK, NY – For decades, marketers have believed that consumers form opinions on products and services only when they have a decision to make when choosing between a new pair of shoes, deciding on a snack at the grocery store, or picking a hotel for an upcoming trip. But recent research shows that consumers are surprisingly eager to express their likes and dislikes – they often evaluate products and services even when there is no decision at stake. This is because people derive a subtle pleasure from expressing that they like or dislike something.
Columbia Business School Researchers Find the Pandemic Increased American Consumers’ Willingness to Share their Possessions (e.g., on Platforms like Airbnb), while it Decreased Willingness to Participate in some other Countries
During the COVID-19 pandemic, as gravely ill patients filled the wards of Mount Sinai’s hospitals, concurrent crises of fear, anxiety, and misinformation about the coronavirus also took hold in the general populace.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians and scientists quickly became the world's most trusted sources of information on the pandemic. In this talk at the Future of Marketing Leadership & Strategy Conference, learn how Karen Wish '94 (VP and CMO, Mount Sinai Hospital Group and Network) led her team at Mount Sinai to get the truth and consistent messaging across to patients, staff, and the general public when they needed it most.