Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Yes, the economy is slowing down. Consumer confidence is fading fast, along with PC sales, auto sales, manufacturing output, factory orders, orders for durable goods, incomes, retail sales - and portfolios. Wealth effect? With a week of sessions left in the trading year, NASDAQ is down 35 percent for the year...
In response to the "energy crisis", consumer groups are demanding better service, more power plants and refunds. Utility companies claim that they lost $6 billion over the course of the summer, despite raising rates, and would like to be compensated by the government. The governor of California has appealed to...
From highbrow art to mass-market gewgaws, transparency--a visual trend popularized earlier by Apple's coveted iMacs--was the year's clear (ahem) buzz word. Some of the year's top buildings played with teasing, gauzy see-through effects, and you could scarcely buy consumer goods not skinned in...
E-TAIL INVESTING Right when economists are sounding alarms against running up holiday consumer debt, one firm is tempting shoppers by offering a rebate that lets them save while they spend. Stockback.com sells a Merrill Lynch-managed mutual fund that allows merchants to provide Stockback owners with rebates that are...
However, Schor has not only been an exemplary academic, she has been a beloved educator as well. Renown for her popular courses such as "Shop 'Til You Drop: Women and Gender in Consumer Society," Schor exemplifies that rare mix of intellectual rigor and concern for students that so many Harvard...