# Marketing
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**Parent**: https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/leadership-and-behavioral-decision-making
SU, Lei
[SENGUPTA, Jaideep](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/sengupta-jaideep)
LI, Yiwei
CHEN, Fangyuan
[The Difference Between ‘Wants’ and ‘Needs’ in Fundraising Appeals](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/05/difference-between-wants-and-needs-fundraising-appeals)
[Fundraising](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/fundraising)
[Resource Dependence](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/resource-dependence)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
Is a “want” superior to a “need” when requesting financial help? Shedding light on this topic, HKUST’s Jaideep Sengupta and colleagues offer insights into the persuasive power of language in crowdfunding appeals. Their study has important practical implications for fundraisers, marketers, and policymakers alike. Although the terms “want” and “need” are both
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[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/05/difference-between-wants-and-needs-fundraising-appeals)
[ [BizBites](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizbites "BizBites") ]
[Watch Video](https://video.ust.hk/watch?video=BC127CDDF41FA6D8&embed=Y)
[Read Full Paper](https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/50/5/923/7160149)
SU, Lei
[SENGUPTA, Jaideep](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/sengupta-jaideep)
LI, Yiwei
CHEN, Fangyuan
[The Difference Between ‘Wants’ and ‘Needs’ in Fundraising Appeals](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/02/difference-between-wants-and-needs-fundraising-appeals)
[Fundraising](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/fundraising)
[Resource Dependence](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/resource-dependence)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
Is a “want” superior to a “need” when requesting financial help? Shedding light on this topic, HKUST’s Jaideep Sengupta and colleagues offer insights into the persuasive power of language in crowdfunding appeals. Their study has important practical implications for fundraisers, marketers, and policymakers alike. Although the terms “want” and “need” are both
...
[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2025/02/difference-between-wants-and-needs-fundraising-appeals)
[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[ [Leadership and Behavioral Decision-making](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/leadership-and-behavioral-decision-making "Leadership and Behavioral Decision-making") ]
[Read Full Paper](https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/50/5/923/7160149)
[KAWAGUCHI, Kohei (SUNADA)](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/kawaguchi-kohei-sunada)
UETAKE, Kosuke
WANATABE, Yasutora
[Competing for Consumers' Attention in a Busy World](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/08/competing-consumers-attention-busy-world)
[Product Assortments](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/product-assortments)
[Data Analytics](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/data-analytics)
[Algorithm](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/algorithm)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
Consumers facing increased time pressure have lower levels of attention, according to HKUST scholar Kohei Kawaguchi and colleagues. The researchers explored how consumers’ attention and utility (a measure of product usefulness) are influenced by time pressure and variables such as the number of recommended products. Ultimately, they concluded that “context
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[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/08/competing-consumers-attention-busy-world)
[ [BizBites](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizbites "BizBites") ]
[Watch Video](https://video.ust.hk/watch?video=8F3B6B395D70A0BD&embed=Y)
[Read Full Paper](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/03/competing-consumers-attention-busy-world)
FAN, Linying
RUCKER, Derek D.
JIANG, Yuwei
[Perceptions of Power in Marketing Communication](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/05/perceptions-power-marketing-communication)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
[Interpersonal Relationship](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/interpersonal-relationship)
[Consumer Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/consumer-behavior)
Power can have a major influence on how we receive, provide, and respond to information. In an important contribution to marketing research, HKUST’s Linying Fan and colleagues show how feeling powerful—a fundamental psychological state—can affect consumers’ construction and reception of communications. They propose a novel psychological mechanism, “need-for
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[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/05/perceptions-power-marketing-communication)
[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[Read Full Paper](https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/50/2/236/6795011)
[KAWAGUCHI, Kohei (SUNADA)](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/kawaguchi-kohei-sunada)
UETAKE, Kosuke
WANATABE, Yasutora
[Competing for Consumers’ Attention in a Busy World](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/03/competing-consumers-attention-busy-world)
[Product Assortments](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/product-assortments)
[Data Analytics](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/data-analytics)
[Algorithm](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/algorithm)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
Consumers facing increased time pressure have lower levels of attention, according to HKUST scholar Kohei Kawaguchi and colleagues. The researchers explored how consumers’ attention and utility (a measure of product usefulness) are influenced by time pressure and variables such as the number of recommended products. Ultimately, they concluded that “context
...
[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2024/03/competing-consumers-attention-busy-world)
[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[Read Full Paper](https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/epdf/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3783)
[XIONG, Yan](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/xiong-yan)
JIANG, Xu
[Managerial Myopia: A Prisoner’s Dilemma Caused by Regulations](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/10/managerial-myopia-prisoners-dilemma-caused-regulations)
[Information Disclosure](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/information-disclosure)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
[Management Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/management-performance)
A rule designed to protect investors may encourage managerial short-termism, to the detriment of firms. This sobering finding comes from a study led by HKUST’s Yan Xiong. According to Xiong and a U.S. colleague, the American government is tying firms’ hands with the requirement to disclose managers’ pay offers. The paper shows how managers become more myopic
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[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/10/managerial-myopia-prisoners-dilemma-caused-regulations)
[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[Read Full Paper](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016541012200012X)
[XIONG, Yan](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/xiong-yan)
JIANG, Xu
[Managerial Myopia: A Prisoner’s Dilemma Caused by Regulations](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/10/managerial-myopia-prisoners-dilemma-caused-regulations-0)
[Information Disclosure](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/information-disclosure)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
[Management Performance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/management-performance)
A rule designed to protect investors may encourage managerial short-termism, to the detriment of firms. This sobering finding comes from a study led by HKUST’s Yan Xiong. According to Xiong and a U.S. colleague, the American government is tying firms’ hands with the requirement to disclose managers’ pay offers. The paper shows how managers become more myopic
...
[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/10/managerial-myopia-prisoners-dilemma-caused-regulations-0)
[ [BizBites](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizbites "BizBites") ]
[Watch Video](https://video.ust.hk/watch?video=6765F88D3999DE97&embed=Y)
[Read Full Paper](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016541012200012X)
CAO, Zike
CHU, Junhong
[HUI, Kai Lung](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/hui-kai-lung)
[XU, Hong](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/xu-hong)
[Discounts or Customer Referrals? Choosing the Right Strategy for Success in E-Commerce](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/03/discounts-or-customer-referrals-choosing-right-strategy-success-e-commerce)
[Discounting](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/discounting)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
[Product and Production](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/product-and-production)
[Customer Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/customer-behavior)
In today’s fast-changing e-commerce landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on two novel strategies for winning customers: referral marketing and product discounting. However, this promising pairing may have a sting in the tail, according to HKUST’s Hong Xu and Kai-Lung Hui and colleagues. Although individually effective, these two marketing tools may
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[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/03/discounts-or-customer-referrals-choosing-right-strategy-success-e-commerce)
[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[Read Full Paper](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07421222.2021.1962597)
CAO, Zike
CHU, Junhong
[HUI, Kai Lung](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/hui-kai-lung)
[XU, Hong](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/xu-hong)
[Discounts or Customer Referrals? Choosing the Right Strategy for Success in E-Commerce](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/03/discounts-or-customer-referrals-choosing-right-strategy-success-e-commerce-0)
[Discounting](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/discounting)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
[Product and Production](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/product-and-production)
[Customer Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/customer-behavior)
In today’s fast-changing e-commerce landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on two novel strategies for winning customers: referral marketing and product discounting. However, this promising pairing may have a sting in the tail, according to HKUST’s Hong Xu and Kai-Lung Hui and colleagues. Although individually effective, these two marketing tools may
...
[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/03/discounts-or-customer-referrals-choosing-right-strategy-success-e-commerce-0)
[ [BizBites](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizbites "BizBites") ]
[Watch Video](https://video.ust.hk/Watch.aspx?Video=7A520A4F7A9E6DB6&embed=Y)
[Read Full Paper](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07421222.2021.1962597)
[VAN DER LANS, Ralf](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/van-der-lans-ralf)
[Using Seeding Strategies to Get Attention in Online Social Networks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/04/using-seeding-strategies-get-attention-online-social-networks)
[Social Network](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/social-network)
[Seeding Strategies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/seeding-strategies)
[Network](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/network)
[Advertising](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/advertising)
[Marketing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/marketing)
[Media](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/media)
Viral marketing can be a cost-effective marketing tool to create awareness and reach many new customers. Viral marketing relies on word of mouth and leverages social networks of individuals to spread information. But, what is the optimal seeding strategy? Put differently: who should you target to initiate a viral marketing campaign?
Previous research
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[Read More](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/04/using-seeding-strategies-get-attention-online-social-networks)
[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]
[Watch Video](https://video.ust.hk/Watch.aspx?Video=7F86D129DF4F4226&embed=Y)
[Read Full Paper](https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/pdf/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3564)