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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Karen Gordon Mills
under its belt, the firm is now looking into the natural and organic food sector. “We're aiming to complete two or three deals annually,” notes Mills, who honed her expertise as a former managing director and COO for E.S. Jacobs & Co., a... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
last century: energy and infrastructure; agricultural commodities and food products; and natural resources, to name a few.” Kuhns is particularly bullish on China’s hydroelectric power potential. It’s a business he knows well. In 1984, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
ordered not to eat anything in advance of a test but was still given his usual dose of insulin. At hospitals that have modern IT systems, when food is being withheld for studies, corrected insulin orders are automatically suggested in the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
map—including apps for donating food waste, sharing photos, sourcing wedding vendors, renting wedding dresses, and making creative wedding registries. Koning’s favorite out-of-the-box idea was an app to simplify divorce, which is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
their first response isn’t, “That’s so cool!” Silverthorne: I was surprised by your emphasis on physical training and food strategies. Is the academic job market that rigorous? Rouen: To be fair, I have no self-control around sweets.... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
Wawa Inc. Retailing requires attention to detail and customer and employee loyalty. Wawa is a 50-year-old food retailer with an almost cult-like following. With $9 billion in revenues, Wawa is the 50th largest privately held company in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
Gary Hamel's book, The Future of Management, in which he described innovative efforts to enable employees to define their own jobs and shape their work at companies such as Google, Whole Foods Market, and W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.... View Details
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
it fails." Several respondents provided food for thought, always welcome here. Deepak Alse speculated, "I wonder if there is such a thing as 'group gut feel?'" David Martin said that "A good manager also knows which... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)
Club and became Social Chair for the club during my second year. We organized events like Mid-Autumn Festival dinners and Chinese New Year celebrations. At the end of the day, it wasn’t just about the food and traditions—it was also about... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos feature South African business leaders in banking (Cas Coovadia), retail (Shirley Zinn), food (Robbie Brozin),... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
capital. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-028.pdf Cases & Course Materials"In a Pickle: Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods (A) John Coates, Clayton Rose, and David LaneHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806069 Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children Harvard Business School Case 507-006 In an effort to capture market share in the children's foods category,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
on agribusiness, the term with which he has become synonymous. He currently teaches a food policy and agribusiness course at the Kennedy School, the Agribusiness Seminar at HBS, and a University-wide seminar on public issues facing the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
raises topics of fund selection and investing in country-specific funds such as Mexico. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208097 Patel Food and Chemicals Private Limited (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Marcela Sapone
we believe we can do it as well if not better than you.” To that end, new subscribers are assigned a personal “Alfred,” a carefully vetted individual who comes to a subscriber’s home, takes care of everything from the dry cleaning to View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
“I am concerned about a continent-wide, long-term grid outage causing loss of food and clean water for 325 million Americans, in addition to threatening the safety of all 98 nuclear power reactors.” Popik credits HBS and its professors... View Details
- 17 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
What to Expect from your First Week at HBS
I’m originally from Turkey but I spent large portions of my childhood in New York, Greece, and Italy. I returned to Turkey to complete my undergraduate degree and worked in management consulting back home in Istanbul before completing a 4-month externship in Italy at... View Details
- 19 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
4 Updates About Peek Weekend at HBS
and covers all materials, food and housing. There will be a small number of need-based financial aid awards available. Peek participants will continue to learn from the same faculty who teach MBA courses at HBS, and are internationally... View Details
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Shawn Tuli
many staff members stayed on campus to serve food and help us function – it was just one of many things that shows how seriously community is taken here.” While Shawn sees his degree as important preparatory work for a career in real... View Details
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Rachel Silverstein
classical training in corporate finance could bring a lot of value – in structure and strategy – to a startup." Rachel's hunch was right, and she proceeded to work for two different startups in the food and beverage and vacation... View Details