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  • Editorial

Sanitation and State Capacity

By: Akshay Mangla
Keywords: India; State Capacity; Sanitation; Infrastructure; Government and Politics; India
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  • Article

Keep Sanitizer Out of the Market's Invisible Hand

By: Scott Duke Kominers
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  • June 2022 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Individual FoodService, Kelso, and Ken Sweder

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
When and how much risk to take? In October 2020, Ken Sweder, CEO of Individual FoodService (“IFS”), contemplated this question as he evaluated a proposal to acquire Brady Industries, a distributor of janitorial and sanitation products. Sweder and his private equity... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Risk Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Value Creation; Business Divisions
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  • February 2012 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

OpenIDEO

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa
The case describes OpenIDEO, an online offshoot of IDEO, one of the world's leading product design firms. OpenIDEO leverages IDEO's innovative design process and an online community to create solutions for social issues. Emphasis is placed on comparing the IDEO and... View Details
Keywords: Social Issues; Product Design; Social and Collaborative Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Ghana; New Zealand
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Health; History; Green Technology Industry; Germany; Denmark; Hungary; United Kingdom
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

The Operational Consequences of Private Equity Buyouts: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry

By: Albert W. Sheen and Shai Bernstein
What, if anything, do private equity firms do with businesses they acquire? We find evidence of significant operational changes in 101 restaurant chain buyouts between 2002 and 2012. Analysis of health inspections conducted for over 50,000 stores in Florida shows that... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Quality; Private Equity; Food; Management Practices and Processes; Leveraged Buyouts; Performance Efficiency; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Florida
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  • April 2013
  • Case

Sterling Household Products Company

By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson
Sterling Household Products manufactures and markets a broad line of consumer goods from laundry soap and cosmetics to cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing products. The company has many highly regarded brand names and consistently reports impressive sales and... View Details
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  • 29 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

year, the news coverage of both its potential and its ominous risks has highlighted the concerns that Gebru sounded years earlier. “If we don’t have the right strategies in place to design and sanitize our sources of data, we will... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

dine-in locations, operators are identifying new staff positions, including “concierges” to manage entry and employees assigned to sanitize tables, chairs, and restrooms. Anecdotally, early experiences from states opening up show some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 09 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

than networking to make friends. (Gino, for instance, recalled colleagues using copious amounts of complimentary hand sanitizer after work-related dinners.) The team also posited that networking felt ickier when a meeting was planned... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

months of the pandemic writing about marketplace design tactics that could provide support—for example, by leveraging delivery marketplaces to bring food to the elderly or by distributing hand sanitizer more equitably. Kominers joined... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Development at the Base of the Pyramid" explores a 2012 sanitation initiative in which Indian Union Minister Jairam Ramesh advised women not to marry men whose houses lacked toilets. (As of the 2011 census, only half of households in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
  • 03 Aug 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

profit for shareholders and directors. Pfeffer is also tired of seeing so-called leadership development services offered in a sanitized vacuum by a “leadership industry” under “brands” such as authentic leadership and servant leadership,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

entrepreneurial firms explicitly devoted to making a profitable business out of conserving and returning valuable resources to productive use, while maintaining public sanitation and in many cases offering nascent environmental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

military casualties? If it releases what is construed by the public as sanitized data, will citizens view the site cynically? Customer needs: As business people, some class participants wanted to see a clearly outlined customer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

registrations and improving personal sanitation in Ghana. In addition, the importance of fostering a collaborative online environment is explored. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612066-PDF-ENG The Case of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

their nations' labor force, or that some countries have infant mortality rates more than ten times our own. Indeed, access to a computer, well enough access to sanitation or a telephone, can be very limited around the world. The lists go... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

customer visits to those facilities. That doesn't tell you anything about the social impact—it doesn't tell you whether people's health has improved as a result, or whether environmental and sanitation conditions have improved, though... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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