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- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
I came to HBS with an interest in social impact but without any specific career convictions. Over the past year, the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) has been especially influential in guiding my career choices. Most tangibly, SEI helped me find my summer internship...
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Latin America - Global Activities 2020
food delivery, groceries, or restaurants, those types of businesses could become eligible for the loans. There were also some people who, when the pandemic hit, had actually finished repaying their loans and were supposed to get a new...
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- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
are you going to with this money?’ He said, ‘I’m hungry and I’m going to buy food for my family because they’re hungry too, and I’m going to save some of it so we don’t get hungry again.’” The man’s response dovetails beautifully with...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
treasurer. Last fall, the two brothers consolidated stock in the business between them after buying out the stakes of other family members. “I concentrate on the overall experience of our business with special attention to the retail areas. Rick focuses on the View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long...
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Fangfang Wang
In China, Fangfang Wang participated in a general management training program at Mars Food that allowed her “the freedom to customize my career path.” Through a series of rotating assignments, Fangfang developed a deep understanding of...
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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Conducting Research That Influences Practice
Tami Kim, a doctoral student at HBS, is conducting research into how the restaurant business could benefit from transparency—literally—by making it possible for chefs and diners to see one another. Her findings on employee and customer satisfaction could help transform...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
illustrate the process and power of market design through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent “Incentive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
broadly available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52046 October 2016 Business History Review The Rise of Synthetic Colors in the American Food Industry, 1870–1940 By: Hisano, Ai Abstract—This article...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
straightforward equation: climate instability exacerbates the risk of armed conflict around the world. Examples are happening around the world every day. They include mass migration as food and water resources literally dry up; mass death...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
re-engineer their drug development processes. Another wild card is how the US Food and Drug Administration, which holds regulatory approval over new drugs, will change its approval procedures. Theoretically, the regulatory process could...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
start-ups like education, health, fintech, family, communication, and consumer finance among other industries; also invests across every sector, including education, work, finance, justice, food and health. View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
“If I look back at my career, I’ve focused on liquid assets: blood, water, and beer.” That is the wry encapsulation Cynthia Fisher (MBA 1990) uses to describe her professional activities. Like Fisher herself, it is smart, efficient, and results-driven—and it gets the...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-116 India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British rule—and owned by over three...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
of the common contracts people sign with themselves each year. If you have resolved to eat healthier, try ordering your groceries a week in advance of delivery. Internet delivery services make it all too easy to give into food cravings...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Heinz, of the famous food company; Marshall Field, the Chicago retailer; Estée Lauder, who created one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world; Howard Schultz, of Starbucks Coffee Company; and Michael Dell, of Dell Computer...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
has had a storied business career. In the 1980s, she became the first female partner at Booz, Allen and helped build the consulting firm’s pharmaceutical practice. In the early 1990s, she was a deputy commissioner at the Food & Drug...
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Max Wibaux
other influences, Max has been "led organically toward early-stage venture capital and growth equity in the food and beverage space," a functional transition that would allow him to combine his previous experience with freshly...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
This Site’s for You
secretaries for help, he compiled a list of 51 alumni blogs plus 7 posted by HBS faculty. Topics include kite-surfing, food and wine, technology, politics, and investing. You can view them all in Larson’s March 4 blog post. He’ll add to...
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- August 1972 (Revised November 2002)
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Prelude Corporation
Describes a company that is seeking to restructure the lobster fishing industry by applying technology and management to what has been essentially a cottage industry. The student is expected to identify and evaluate the strategy pursued by the company to date and then...
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Strategy;
Leading Change;
Animal-Based Agribusiness;
Industry Growth;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Rosenblum, John W. "Prelude Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 373-052, August 1972. (Revised November 2002.)