Money and Marriage, What do Customers Want?

Prevent Money from Ruining Your Marriage (10:42)

Matt Bell is a full-time personal finance writer and speaker, serving as Managing Editor at Sound Mind Investing while speaking at churches, universities, and other venues throughout the country. The holiday season is a great time to reconnect with family and friends, but can also be a stressful one, especially for married couples. It’s no secret that fighting about money puts a huge strain on a relationship. In fact, money issues are so troublesome that people who say they’re experiencing stress in their relationship cite finances as the number one reason. The holiday season doesn’t help with those stresses, but Matt Bell shares ways to prevent money from ruining your marriage.

What do Customers Want? (1:03:03)

Denise Dahlhoff is the research director of the Wharton School’s Baker Retailing Center where she is responsible for the center’s knowledge creation and dissemination initiatives. Her background is a mix of qualitative and quantitative market and academic research, consulting, publishing, and teaching. One of the more popular topics that we talk about in today’s world is the difference we see between different generations. Between baby boomers, Gen X, and millennials we find big differences, but a few similarities. One similarity that each generation has is the love of holiday season shopping and the spirit of gift giving around Christmas. Denise Dahlhoff discusses her research on how different generations shop differently.