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15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

collection, a unique research and teaching resource that comprises more than 140 videos of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey Jones explores how the beauty... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Dec 2008
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Innovation as P&G’s Key

behind how Naturella’s creator, Procter & Gamble, got inside the heads of those consumers is just one of many valuable insights related in The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation (Crown Business,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

food for its people. Through gardens planted with heirloom crops like Omaha Sacred Red Corn, Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans, and Mandan Squash—the "Three Sisters" of Native American lore that thrive when... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety 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), View Details

11 Jul 2025
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Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast

Before a gathering of 30 alumni and guests, Steed detailed the lake’s geological history and described some of the industries that are vitally dependent on it today. The salt produced from the lake goes into... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the Yogi Tea Company), for which he serves as executive vice president. "Our goal is to... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 May 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

and organizations. Often students struggle with networking and what that looks like and I encourage students to learn about the person or company to demonstrate interest in... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products,... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)

'76), have developed an astounding array of community outreach services -- from elaborate food pantries to job assistance programs; from tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services for children View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Oct 2002
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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... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table

logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups and View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

novel that describes a clash of cultures in French and Indian cuisines that makes the food live through human drama. Morais’s carefully researched story takes the reader from Bombay to London, Lumière, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2017
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Streamlining the Supermarket

center closest to you, which may be attached to the back of a gas station or convenience store. “Because of their low-cost design and size [most will be 3,000 to 5,000 square feet] we can put fulfillment centers in thousands of places,”... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

Foods Market regularly stocks EARTH’s bananas, dried fruits, and cobranded coffee. Outreach and Impact In his current role, Condo spends about half of his time on the road,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

21 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023

issues of science and policy acted as a reminder of the scale and ever-changing policy landscape as students dove more deeply into specific solutions with such topics as food... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2007
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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, View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

05 Mar 2014
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When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

the Internet and promised one-hour delivery of a wide range of products, including an entire evening's complement of food and videos, with no delivery fee View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

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