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- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
was an essential ingredient in the success of the transformation. The case ends with a review of changes in financial performance, employee attitudes and customer satisfaction. The case describes the important role that the human...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
athletes have relatively short careers compared to most other professionals, it is extremely important to strategically manage these assets and to make the right decisions at the right times. Q: What makes for great appeal in athletic endorsements—is there a secret...
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Ito En with teas). On the bright side, Kameda’s recent acquisition of a U.S. company, Mary’s Gone Crackers, was showing steady sales growth, though profits were very low due to high manufacturing and raw ingredient costs, and distribution...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Mei Zhang (MBA 1996), who wrote Travels Through Dali With a Leg of Ham, a travelogue with recipes. “The utensils are the essential secret to Chinese cooking. In Yunnan food a lot of fresh ingredients are tossed very quickly in very hot...
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- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
single day. Based on what you've learned, do you think discount vouchers make sense for large retailers? A: Discount vouchers seem to be most compelling for merchants with a low cost of goods sold and with a highly perishable product. Restaurants fit the bill in that...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
qualities that define a leader? Where does one find a mentor? What are the ingredients in the recipe for success? Getting beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works by Roger L. Martin (MBA 1981) and Sally R. Osberg (Harvard Business...
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- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
employees, and suppliers, providing them with 24/7 access. The ability to capture all the data and information generated by customer activities is another advantage high tech provides. Beyond all this, connectivity and big data are the essential View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
all the ingredients available. The situation works now because Airbus and Boeing push each other on innovation and pricing, which ultimately benefits consumers and businesses. We yell and scream at each other, of course, but that’s the...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
we’re going to be avoiding the difficult conversations, that we’re going to be just looking at the rosy, that we’re going to be not going and dealing with the pitfalls until it’s too late, those are a lot of the things that are the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
The army had become his household, Washington's "family" his own. He had no other home. The one missing ingredient remained the very thing that had led him to join the army in the first place: glory in battle. He wanted more than a desk...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
without a fuel tax, the United States would have recurrent energy crises “until we run out of money.” And he deplored the country’s inability to have a coherent energy policy, adding that “a little more statesmanship on the part of business leaders is a critical View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
or industry. In three sections, it first examines all the key laws and regulations with which healthcare organizations must comply. In section two, it explores in detail the seven essential ingredients for a good compliance program. In...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
account, we present six studies, conducted in the field and in the lab. A pre-registered field experiment indicated that diners were 21.1% more likely to buy a bowl of chicken noodle soup when a sign revealing its ingredients also...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts in a coherent direction. Leaders...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
microscope. Again, myth and reality were tangled. "Clearly the last fifteen years in Asia have been extraordinary," Porter said. "The rising tide in Asia has lifted almost all boats." But the real issue, Porter explained, was how Asia would cope with the emerging...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
neighborhood place, and she wanted to know where the chef got ingredients such as produce and chicken. It turned out that they were bought at a nearby market, but actually originated from abroad. Decades of corruption and haphazard...
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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
them. Ayr: So I built this up for many years. And this sandwich was my attempt to defend the Brussels sprout and bring people into the fold. Brussels sprouts are amazing because if they’re done really badly, like any vegetable, if the quality of the starting View Details
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Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
who want to start or grow their own business. The Successful Entrepreneur’s Playbook outlines the key ingredients that would-be entrepreneurs should consider in assessing their likelihood of success and then provides the key components in...
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- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
of meat from the kitchen and cook a meal. And the next day he'd do it again. I'm like, this is so inefficient. Why do you do that? Just shop for a week. He was like, no, no, no. You've got to have fresh ingredients every day. And well,...
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