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May 17, 2022 Center for Customer Insights Blog

Getting It Wrong: How Imaginary Trends Can Shape Consumer Behavior and Impact ESG Campaigns

New research from Yale SOM Professor Jason Dana illuminates the importance of measuring not only actual trends, but believed trends. 

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March 29, 2022 Center for Customer Insights Blog

Unlocking the Secrets to Self-Motivation

Chicago Booth Professor Ayelet Fishbach talks motivation.

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March 01, 2022 Center for Customer Insights Blog

Can Ambivalence Motivate Us to Act?

Fearing rejection, people are often reluctant to pursue the things they want most—a better job offer, a first date.

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February 25, 2022 Center for Customer Insights Blog

Brand marketing to engage the consumer

Inside Yum! Brands’ intuition-based approach to building loyalty.

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February 18, 2022 Center for Customer Insights Blog

Five Insights from Multi-Sensory Marketing

For marketers, tactics designed to engage each of the consumer’s five senses can be a powerful tool for unlocking deeper connection with the consumer. 

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January 21, 2022 Center for Customer Insights Blog

A Conversation with Antonio Lucio

MBA student Joanne Jan sat down with YCCI Executive Fellow & former Facebook CMO, Antonio Lucio, to hear his thoughts on the future of marketing & the importance of diversity and inclusion within organizations.

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December 22, 2021 Center for Customer Insights Blog

Finding the Right Brand Position

A company’s brand is central to its success, and yet little is known about why some brands succeed and others don’t. New work out of Yale shines an empirical light on the value of niche versus mainstream brand positions.

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December 22, 2021 Center for Customer Insights Blog

When More Friction Can Lead to a Better Consumer Experience

According to MIT Sloan's Renée Richardson Gosline, "friction is not the same thing as a pain point." In what scenarios might friction actually improve the customer experience?

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December 16, 2021 Center for Customer Insights Blog

Unintentional Creations

New research from Yale SOM professor Taly Reich shows that consumers will pay more for something when they find out it was invented unintentionally. The catch? It must be a great product.

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December 02, 2021 Center for Customer Insights Blog

Finding the Best Lookalikes

Online marketing allows companies unprecedented precision in targeting not just individual consumers, but, increasingly, “lookalikes” who match the characteristics of those consumers.