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- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
largest consumer research panel in the Middle East, and helped Yahoo!'s portal reach nearly 17 million unique users. In 2014, Yahoo! shuttered its Middle East portal, and Amira joined Facebook where she worked closely with both SMBs and large enterprises to expand... View Details
- 02 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
Building a Consumer-Centric Strategy: Highlights from the Marketing & CPG Club’s Conference
thriving company relentlessly focused on their core consumer. His story taught us all of the importance of letting “your fans own your brand.” Mark Addicks of General Mills emphasized the importance of defining markets in human terms and always having a View Details
- August 2011
- Supplement
An Interview with John Fahey, President and CEO of National Geographic Society
By: David Garvin
In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Natural Environment; Business Strategy; Web Sites
Garvin, David. "An Interview with John Fahey, President and CEO of National Geographic Society." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 312-702, August 2011.
- December 2010
- Article
Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate
By: Rohit Deshpandé
The article discusses the "provenance paradox," wherein consumers are unwilling to buy high-quality products from regions not commonly associated with excellence in certain product categories. Venezuelan chocolate maker Chocolates El Rey does little international... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Emerging Markets; Food and Beverage Industry; Venezuela
Deshpandé, Rohit. "Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
In 2005, a year after the venerable toy retailer FAO Schwartz emerged from bankruptcy, Ed Schmults (MBA ’89) became its CEO. “The company was relying on its glorious past but was without a clear brand direction,” Schmults explained to the... View Details
- June 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
Reckitt Benckiser: Fast and Focused Innovation
By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan Johnson
Since its 1999 merger Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a global consumer goods company, led by its CEO Bart Becht, RB developed a reputation for rapid product innovation and industry leading profit margins. RB's stated strategy was to focus on its Powerbrands and high growth... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Commercialization; Consumer Products Industry
Henderson, Rebecca M., and Ryan Johnson. "Reckitt Benckiser: Fast and Focused Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 311-116, June 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
leaders. Brand Aid by Brad VanAuken (MBA ’84) (American Management Association) This reference guide is aimed at solving tough branding problems and strengthening marketing position. VanAuken offers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
to landfill waste. What’s worse, each of the 27 million diapers that are tossed every year will take four or five centuries to decompose, due to their petroleum-based materials. Between the lack of performance in the sustainable brands... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Alumni Capture the Essence of Pokemon GO Craze
can be derived from the phenomenon. To gather alumni thoughts and takeaways, we went on social media with a question: “How can other brands replicate the breakout success of Pokemon GO or can they?” Here are a sampling of their responses:... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- Web
Lavinia Teodorescu | MBA
algorithms prioritize local brands and creators. My goal over the coming years is to develop and grow Gala to become a worldwide fashion retailing platform. LinkedIn: Lavinia Teodorescu View Details
- Web
Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School
Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission Featuring Victoria Ivashina . By Avery Forman on July 24, 2025 . Data and Technology What Google, Lego, and Other Brands Know About the Promise and Peril of AI Featuring... View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
many others. “These kinds of changes are positive for the company's fundamentals—for its profitability, its long-term success, its consumer and employee loyalty, the brand equity it has built. And if you take a slightly longer-term view,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Male Consumers as Man-of-Action Heroes
of the authors’ research, marketers may need to re-examine the idea that they should imbue their brands with either respectability or rebellion. Instead, as Holt and Thompson’s study suggests, it is in the tensions between the two where... View Details
- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
utilized by earlier stage investors.” There are also numerous PE firms with well-known brands that attract large numbers of students to campus events and into their applicant pool. In terms of location, students tend to focus on major... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 16 Jun 2020
- News
What Will the Retail Experience of the Future Look Like?
- 18 May 2017
- News
Getting to Know Student Class Day Speaker: Andrew Cone, MBA 2017
- July 2022
- Case
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative? (Abridged)
By: Michael W. Toffel, George Serafeim, Francesca Gino, Stephanie Van Sice and Tom Quinn
In the midst of increasing press scrutiny of the bottled water industry’s environmentally harmful practices, FIJI Water made a series of sustainability promises. The boldest of these was a pledge to go “carbon negative.” The company said that not only would they offset... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Footprint; Carbon Offsetting; Environmental Accounting; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Pollution; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Non-Governmental Organizations; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; Fiji; United States
Toffel, Michael W., George Serafeim, Francesca Gino, Stephanie Van Sice, and Tom Quinn. "FIJI Water: Carbon Negative? (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 623-004, July 2022.
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
brand over another based on their patients' requests? A recent study, Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct to Consumer Advertising, focused on one aspect of pharma DCTA: What do physicians think about all of this? What... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls