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"""Marketplace Dignity is an outstanding resource for anyone hoping to build stronger, longer-lasting customer relationships. Drawing on compelling case studies and academic research, authors Cait Lamberton, Neela Saldanha and Tom Wein share practical guidance on how you can ensure your organization will respect and empower every customer."" * Katy Milkman, author, How to Change, and James G. Dinan Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania * ""Marketplace Dignity is a brilliant and timely book that reveals how a focus on dignity can enhance the well-being of customers—and society. Cait Lamberton, Neela Saldanha, and Tom Wein draw on their deep expertise and experience to provide a fascinating and actionable framework for creating products, services, and experiences that honor and elevate human dignity. Marketplace Dignity will help you build more lasting relationships with your customers while contributing to a better world."" * Michael Norton, author, The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Every Actions, and Professor at Harvard Business School * ""This remarkable book offers a guide for aligning our values with our actions – and in so doing gaining loyal customers and advancing social good. Whether in the for-profit or for-purpose sector, we can all draw inspiration from this deeply researched volume about affirming and upholding the dignity of the people we work with and serve in the modern marketplace."" * Ruth Levine, Vice President, Just Societies and Chief Learning Officer, Packard Foundation * ""Marketplace Dignity, which seems like an oxymoron, is a masterpiece at convincing you that it isn’t. Cait, Neela, and Tom, through simple frameworks and practical examples prove that treating your customers with dignity isn’t just the right thing to do morally, but the right thing to do practically. Whether you’re a multinational corporation, or a small civil society organization, reading Marketplace Dignity will give you the tools to treat your users with dignity, and reap the benefits of doing so."" * Chaning Jang, CEO, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics * ""Marketplace Dignity is a groundbreaking book that challenges conventional wisdom and offers a new paradigm. Cait Lamberton, Neela Saldanha, and Tom Wein reveal how and why dignity can be a key driver of customer engagement, loyalty, and satisfaction, as well as a source of competitive advantage and social impact. A treasure trove of insights and best practices, Marketplace Dignity is a practical and inspiring guide for how to design and deliver products, services, and experiences that honor and elevate the human dignity of your customers."" * Jim Stengel, author, Grow and Unleashing the Innovators, and former CMO, Procter & Gamble *"

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Cait Lamberton is the Alberto I. Duran Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where she has taught at the undergraduate, MBA doctoral and executive levels. Her research focuses on consumer behavior considered both at individual and socially-embedded perspectives. In addition to being named a Wharton and Penn Fellow, Cait has been designated a Marketing Science Institute Scholar, received the Erin Anderson Award for the field’s top female researcher and mentor, the Lazaridis Prize for research related to technology, and the Hunt/Maynard Award for conceptual contributions to the field of Marketing. Outside academia, Cait has been retained as a consultant by the US Departments of Labor and Education as well as pharmaceutical and financial services firms. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Wheaton College (IL), an MBA, and PhD from the University of South Carolina, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Neela A. Saldanha is the Executive Director at the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) and a behavioral scientist. Previously she was the Founding Director for the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change, Ashoka University India, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to her career in development, Neela spent 15+ years in the private sector leading teams in brands, sales, consumer insights, and strategy at Nestle, Unilever, PepsiCo, and Accenture. Neela has been mentioned in Forbes magazines as “Ten Behavioral Scientists You Should Know.” Her writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Nature Human Behavior, and Behavioral Scientist, among others. She is a Board Member of The Life You Can Save, founded by leading philosopher Peter Singer, and Grameen Foundation USA. She has a PhD in Marketing from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from IIM Calcutta, India. Neela lives in New York City with her husband Tanuj, daughter Aliya, and gently stubborn cat Ginger. Tom Wein is a Director at IDinsight. He leads the Dignity Initiative there, building on research he has been doing since 2017. Tom has spent the past 13 years leading research in the Global South. He has given evidence to the UK Parliament, and written several academic papers. He previously led Raising Voices’ work to prevent violence against children in schools in Uganda. Before that, he worked with the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, where he built the CREME research agenda on culture, research ethics and methods, and led work on activism, civil society and edutainment. Tom holds a Master’s degree in Communication for Development from Malmö University in Sweden, and an undergraduate degree in War Studies from King’s College, London. He works to advance justice and create better governance through useful research, and believes research is most useful when it grapples with questions of power. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife Rachel, son Oliver, and dog Bailey.

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