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- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
sweetriot, an organic chocolate company, was deciding the best way to grow her organic chocolate company, while keeping her chocolate physically and conceptually on the shelf....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
We Have Liftoff
phone, see your bill, and pay in seconds with SplitNGo. No app required. When your workday ends: When it finally gets slow at our pilot restaurant, and we get to head home after busing tables and talking to customers all night. Your morning routine: Grab a tea and...
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Lindsay Hyde
FIELD 2 about research and testing assumptions, and put them into practice launching a micro-business,” Lindsay says. She and her team are building My Friend Bert, an online “date itinerary” service that creates unique date options for busy couples, such as a hot View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
management in an emerging market from the perspectives of the many stakeholders involved. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810095-PDF-ENG Zotter—Living by Chocolate Mukti Khaire, Stefan Aichinger, Monika Hoffmann,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
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Kilimanjaro
final climb in a misty rain. The temperature was 5 degrees; the winds were blowing at 30 miles per hour. By this point they all knew each other quite well. Most of the chocolate had already been consumed. Canadian Graeme Johnson (MBA ’95)...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9390.html Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate Author:Rohit Deshpandé Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract The article discusses the "provenance...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Rob Casper
at a chocolate company; the next day, I'm at a window-washing service." Yet lessons learned at HBS remain important. "I learned how to learn—a very valuable skill," Rob says. "You're never going to map a case to a...
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Fangfang Wang
Fangfang introduced data-driven analytics and consultative selling techniques to the company. Recognizing chocolate’s value as a high-margin product, she led initiatives to drive demand, including partnerships with other candy manufacturers (“to make a larger View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
Anybody who knows me well knows that I am a total Cookie Monster, right down to the homemade chocolate chip cookies that have always been my weakness. From Baker Library | Bloomberg Center: Do you want to learn more about how you can set...
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Sarah Wolfolds
stopping by the Doctoral office to get a chocolate from LuAnn’s desk! The upper years in your program and others will be happy to talk you through course selection and all of the other steps in the program - so don’t hesitate...
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Yaping Wang
– a full cycle of development." A typical cycle would take one to two years. "I like seeing what we've developed come to market," says Yaping. "What really excites me is talking to customers, finding out what chocolate...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Brand New
Crumbl Cookies. “If it is a long day of meetings and we’re both tired, my wife and I love to order cookies delivered to our house. I’m a traditionalist, so my favorite is the milk chocolate chip—and I want to try the salted caramel...
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Julia Siegel
going to come in handy as I embarked on this crazy adventure, and my section mates seem to like the Monday morning banana bread and the occasional chocolate chip cookies. I am going to be leaving with a very full passport! The travel has...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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Full Circle
explains. “The ones that get into my psyche the most are when it’s clear that a pet is particularly vital to an owner.” For example, a chocolate Lab named Ginger — an important member of a family with seven children — was hit by a car and...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
he bought a Nestlé chocolate bar, he got a coupon for Hershey. And when he redeemed the coupon for Hershey, he got a half-price coupon for Hershey. When he redeemed that, he got nothing. So he said, 'I very quickly learned that my View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
might be interested in ex-post (i.e., once there). Thus, consumers coming to the supermarket to buy daily staples (say, bread and milk) might be induced to also get expensive chocolate if they have to walk past the corresponding aisle...
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by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
emotional feeling of guilt. The researchers asked 67 college undergraduates to complete a series of tasks that involved recalling past guilt-inducing behavior, confronting an opportunity to cheat, and choosing whether to eat a piece of View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
the stuff, it is powdered Nescafé bought from streetside trolleys. Africa remains by and large the last part of the world to resist coffee, with tea and chocolate drinks the go-to hot beverages. (Exceptions are in the Francophone...
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- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
parents had built one of the largest chocolate factories in Japan. “Each of us had grown up watching our parents struggle but also successfully grow their own businesses,” Murakami explains. “We grew up with a tremendous amount of respect...
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- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
on joy. The researchers found that ads retained attention better if they delivered several snippets of joy in succession than if they delivered a sustained period of joy. "It's like feeding them little bits of chocolate, one at a time, as opposed to handing them a...
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