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      'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt
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      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer Finance Industry

      By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
      We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor credit card providers within the consumer finance industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates...  View Details
      Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Esg; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg (environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Esg Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Consumer Finance; Financial Services; Financial Inclusion; Product; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Personal Finance; credit Cards; Financial Services Industry
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      Serafeim, George, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer Finance Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-061, November 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt

      By: Grant E. Donnelly, Cait Lamberton, Stephen Bush, Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
      Many consumers struggle to repay their credit card debt, in part because paying small portions of large bills often feels fruitless. We introduce a novel credit card payment option—repayment-by-purchase—and examine its influence on both the amount consumers’ repay and...  View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Debt; Goal Pursuit; Goal Progress; Financial Decison-making; Personal Finance; credit Cards; Borrowing And Debt; Goals And Objectives; Motivation And Incentives; Decision Making
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      Donnelly, Grant E., Cait Lamberton, Stephen Bush, Zoe Chance, and Michael I. Norton. "'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-060, November 2020.
      • August 2020
      • Case

      PayPal: The Next Chapter

      By: Michael Porter, Mark Kramer and Annelena Lobb
      Can a social purpose and stakeholder capitalism confer a powerful competitive advantage in the age of COVID-19? For PayPal, the answer is yes. After spinning off from eBay in a 2015 IPO, the company declared its purpose as "democratizing financial services" by ensuring...  View Details
      Keywords: Mission And Purpose; Finance; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Social Entrepreneurship; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry
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      Porter, Michael, Mark Kramer, and Annelena Lobb. "PayPal: The Next Chapter." Harvard Business School Case 721-378, August 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets

      By: Alberto Cavallo
      The COVID-19 Pandemic has led to changes in expenditure patterns that can introduce significant bias in the measurement of Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation. I use publicly-available data on credit and debit card transactions to update the official CPI weights and...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid; Consumer Expenditures; Cpi; Inflation; Health Pandemics; consumer Behavior; Spending; Inflation And Deflation; Global Range
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      Cavallo, Alberto. "Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27352, June 2020. (Revised October 2020. Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-124, May 2020)
      • November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
      • Case

      Marcus by Goldman Sachs

      By: Rory McDonald, Samir Junnarkar and David Lane
      Five years on from the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs remained wounded. Revenues at the global investment bank had stagnated below pre-crisis levels, and the firm had yet to rebound from a substantial decline in securities-trading revenues. Marcus by Goldman...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Banks And Banking; Innovation Leadership; Growth And Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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      McDonald, Rory, Samir Junnarkar, and David Lane. "Marcus by Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Case 620-005, November 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
      • August 2019
      • Case

      ClearScore, 2018

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In October 2017, Experian, one of the “Big Three” consumer credit reporting agencies in the United Kingdom made an offer to acquire ClearScore for a total consideration of £293 million. Founded by Justin Basini, Dan Cobley, and Nigel Morris in 2014, ClearScore was the...  View Details
      Keywords: Fintech; Financial Services; Credit Card; Credit Scores; Startup; Start-up; Startup Financing; Startup Marketing; "marketing Analytics"; Regulation; Lending; Television Advertising; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Mindset; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Entrepreneurs; Global Business; Rapid Growth Stage; Risk; Net Present Value; Testing; Testing Strategy; Geographies; Mergers & Acquisitions; Finance; Strategy; credit; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Expansion; Mergers And Acquisitions; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom; South Africa
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "ClearScore, 2018." Harvard Business School Case 720-369, August 2019.
      • July 23, 2019
      • Article

      Is the U.S. on Its Way to Becoming a Cashless Society?

      By: Shelle Santana
      The rise of digital payments, including credit cards, debit cards, and mobile payments systems, have contributed to the steady shift in payment practices among consumers. According to the FDIC, cash represented just 30% of all payments in 2017, and the percentage of...  View Details
      Keywords: Payment Methods; Cash; credit Cards; consumer Behavior; Change; United States
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      Santana, Shelle. "Is the U.S. on Its Way to Becoming a Cashless Society?" Harvard Business Review (website) (July 23, 2019).
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

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

      By: Michelle A. Shell and Ryan W. Buell
      It is a well-established result in social psychology that when people feel anxious, they seek advice from others. However, increasingly companies that operate in high-anxiety settings (like financial services, health care, and education) are deploying self-service...  View Details
      Keywords: Anxiety; Customers; Emotions; Service Delivery; Interpersonal Communication; Customer Satisfaction; Trust
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      Shell, Michelle A., and Ryan W. Buell. "Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-089, February 2019.
      • January 2019 (Revised November 2020)
      • Case

      Ribbon Home: iBacking for Real Estate

      By: Marco Di Maggio and Sarah Gulick
      In November 2018, Shaival Shah, the founder and CEO of Ribbon Home had to decide on the next steps for the company. Ribbon had introduced a program that backs consumers with cash offers without creating a loan structure in order to help them compete with iBuyers, such...  View Details
      Keywords: Consumers; Real Estate; Property; Finance; Market Platforms; Business Model; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry
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      Di Maggio, Marco, and Sarah Gulick. "Ribbon Home: iBacking for Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 219-059, January 2019. (Revised November 2020.)
      • July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
      • Teaching Note

      Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

      By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country...  View Details
      Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Finance; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation And Deflation; Government And Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America
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      Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Sayiddah Fatima McCree. "Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 219-010, July 2018. (Revised July 2018.)
      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Good Credit and the Good Life: Credit Scores Predict Subjective Well-Being

      By: Joe J. Gladstone and Ashley V. Whillans
      Can money buy happiness? To examine this question, research in economics, psychology, and sociology has focused almost exclusively on examining the associations between income, spending or wealth and subjective well-being. Moving beyond this research, we provide the...  View Details
      Keywords: Well-being; Credit Scores; Consumer Finance; Emotions; credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Happiness
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      Gladstone, Joe J., and Ashley V. Whillans. "Good Credit and the Good Life: Credit Scores Predict Subjective Well-Being." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-112, June 2018.
      • June 2018 (Revised January 2019)
      • Case

      Membership Rewards® from American Express

      By: Shelle Santana, Frances X. Frei and Lauren G. Pickle
      Credit and charge card issuer American Express (Amex) had developed a strong reputation among consumers due in part to its Membership Rewards (MR) loyalty program, first established in 1991. Through MR, all Amex cardholders could accumulate and redeem “points” based on...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Services; Customer Loyalty; credit Cards; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Brands And Branding; Customer Value And Value Chain; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; North America; United States
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      Santana, Shelle, Frances X. Frei, and Lauren G. Pickle. "Membership Rewards® from American Express." Harvard Business School Case 518-079, June 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
      • October 2017 (Revised April 2019)
      • Case

      Data Breach at Equifax

      By: Suraj Srinivasan, Quinn Pitcher and Jonah S. Goldberg
      The case discusses the events leading up to the massive data breach at Equifax, one of the three U.S. credit reporting companies, the organizational and governance issues that contributed to the breach, and the consequences of the breach. The case supplement provides...  View Details
      Keywords: Cybersecurity; Safety; Information Management; Technology Industry; United States
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, Quinn Pitcher, and Jonah S. Goldberg. "Data Breach at Equifax." Harvard Business School Case 118-031, October 2017. (Revised April 2019.)
      • September 2017 (Revised November 2018)
      • Case

      Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand

      By: Shelle Santana, Jill Avery and Christine Snively
      The launch of the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card was enthusiastically received by millennial consumers, a cohort that had previously eluded JPMorgan Chase and its competitors. With the one-year anniversary of the launch approaching, managers are focused on...  View Details
      Keywords: Brand & Product Management; Product Strategy; New Product Development; Credit Card; Customer Acquisition; Crm; Millennials; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands And Branding; credit Cards; Product Development; Product Launch; Customer Relationship Management; consumer Behavior; Demographics; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry; Banking Industry; United States; North America
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      Santana, Shelle, Jill Avery, and Christine Snively. "Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand." Harvard Business School Case 518-024, September 2017. (Revised November 2018.)
      • March 2017 (Revised March 2019)
      • Case

      Ant Financial (A)

      By: Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, Anthony K. Woo and Nancy Hua Dai
      Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech “Unicorn.” The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals such as mobile and online payment (Alipay), money market fund (Yu’e Bao), wealth management (Ant Fortune),...  View Details
      Keywords: Growth And Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Finance; Opportunities; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry
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      Zhu, Feng, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, Anthony K. Woo, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Ant Financial (A)." Harvard Business School Case 617-060, March 2017. (Revised March 2019.)
      • August 2015 (Revised December 2016)
      • Case

      Apple Pay

      By: Sunil Gupta, Shelle Santana and Margaret L. Rodriguez
      On September 9, 2014, in front of a packed audience in Cupertino, CA, Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple, announced the much anticipated launch of Apple Pay. "Our vision is to replace this [wallet] and we are going to start with payments." Cook then invited...  View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Technology; Digital Services And Strategy; Product Launch; Launch; Mobile; Mobile Payments; Apple; Credit Cards; Finance; Payments; Smartphone; Apple Pay; Eddy Cue; Jennifer Bailey; Ios; Iphone; Marketing; Product; Mobile Technology; Product Launch; Finance; credit Cards; Wireless Technology; Technology Industry; Banking Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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      Gupta, Sunil, Shelle Santana, and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Apple Pay." Harvard Business School Case 516-027, August 2015. (Revised December 2016.)
      • October 2014 (Revised June 2016)
      • Case

      MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion

      By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
      MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga was investing significant time and attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included...  View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Financial Services; Financial And Social Return; Financial Inclusion; Strategic Management; South Africa; Nigeria; Ajay Banga; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; South Africa; Nigeria
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      Gupta, Sunil, Rajiv Lal, and Natalie Kindred. "MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion." Harvard Business School Case 515-035, October 2014. (Revised June 2016.)
      • 2014
      • Book

      Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare

      By: Gunnar Trumbull
      Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces...  View Details
      Keywords: Attitudes; credit; France; United States
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      Trumbull, Gunnar. Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
      • 2012
      • Chapter

      Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France

      By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
      Keywords: credit; Commercial Banking; Personal Finance; Borrowing And Debt; Financing And Loans; consumer Behavior; Banking Industry; United States; France
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      Trumbull, J. Gunnar. "Banking on Consumer Credit: Explaining Patterns of Household Borrowing in the United States and France." Chap. 7 in The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective: Business, Regulation, and Culture, edited by Jan Logemann. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
      • April 2012
      • Article

      Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

      By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
      Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to...  View Details
      Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome Or Result; Budgets And Budgeting; Forecasting And Prediction; Competition; Banks And Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; credit; Employment; United States
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      Campbell, Dennis, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez, and Peter Tufano. "Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures." Journal of Banking & Finance 36, no. 4 (April 2012): 1224–1235.
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