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Samantha Gray
I want to stretch my heart to the breaking as a wife, a lover, a mother. I want to be there for my little sister and baby brother when life isn't fair. I want amazing friends who order Indian food that I'll eat, who know my car's name is... 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... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 17 May 2017
- News
Nisa Godrej Takes Over
India, Deepika Warrier is the vice-president for the company’s nutrition category. Hindustan Unilever, the country’s largest consumer goods maker, has two women in its executive team. Geetu Verma heads its foods division and Priya Nair is... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
social restrictions and reopen businesses? Other questions depend on the answers to the medical questions. Will government funds for the disadvantaged people and businesses be sustainable? What will happen to inflation? Will food supplies... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
That’s actually good news because it’s harder to change people’s taste preferences than it is beliefs,” says Minor, joking that he’s been trying to change his daughter’s food tastes for years. Minor used a survey pool of 7,000... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
willingness to purchase organic, indulgent, and baseline items. In this case, the results showed no significant difference between the two groups with regard to organic items, which rated highly across the board. However, participants were more likely to buy indulgent... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
brands, forever on the lookout for new opportunities; home life has become an act of managing supply chains, outsourcing housecleaning, childcare, and even grocery shopping to others; and churches market themselves like fast food... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Steve Easterbrook, was named president and CEO, and the turnaround was on. Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) had left Kraft Foods in September 2015, when he connected with Easterbrook, who was looking for someone to help him fine-tune his... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, and respond to individual reports of side effects, with the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put on those grocery shelves? It's the working class. We... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture - which drives nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions - is a great place to start. Our global... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture - which drives nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions - is a great place to start. Our global... View Details
- December 2001
- Case
Dairy.com
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Dairy.com's ecommerce exchange attempts to provide value to the dairy industry through price discovery mechanisms. View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
fermentation process can be repurposed to create artificial silk and self-repairing fabrics; we also can look ahead to the possibility of more lab-raised “impossible” meats, drought-resistant crops, and food suited to our particular... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- News
On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)
doing laundry. There’s an obligation to do all these things in a more sustainable way. To put it differently, this is not a company that sells appliances; but rather a business of living better by making clothes last longer and food taste... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
have their eye on the prime rib too? Once they have learned to manufacture your product, they are in a much better position to move up the food chain into manufacturing and designing more sophisticated components and subsystems and,... View Details