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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
explains. “We walked around Candlestick wearing ‘We’re Listening’ buttons, with the goal of improving the fan experience as much as possible until we could build a better park.” New food concessions, the first female MLB public address... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, and dense — and end up unread and unrealized. This book provides simple,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
results will be affected by (a) when the inspection occurs within an inspector’s daily schedule and (b) the inspection outcomes of the inspector’s prior inspected establishment. Analyzing thousands of food safety inspections, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
cafeteria. While on site we wore regulation steel-toed boots, hard hat, goggles, and ear plugs. During each visit, we ate meals and shared living quarters with employees. The food was abundant and pretty good; quarters were dorm-like,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
fatigue syndrome (CFS), which for a long time went undiagnosed; battling CFS for some ten years, she could no longer work and therefore lost her health insurance. Her prescription bills alone were $600 a month, and she sometimes had to choose between buying View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
getting people in the door of a museum has intensified. Admission fees and retail income from gift shops and food sales can have a significant impact on the museum as a whole. Because the Smithsonian's NMNH is located in the heart of one... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad patterns about the use of alternative financing terms. These patterns help discipline a model in which the trade finance mode is shaped by the risk that an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
analyses, specifically, to compute net present value (NPV) internal rate of return (IRR) and payback period. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207121 Vivaldi Food Concepts—The Start-up of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Josh Harris (MBA 1990) attended NFL games at the old RFK Stadium in D.C. as a young child, and recalls being stunned by the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
likes to do operations like housekeeping and food and beverage. And there’s a third entity that has the brand. Companies like the Four Seasons or Ritz Carlton, we say they “flag” a hotel. They don’t manage it; they “flag” it. Trump has a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
that share an office that work in enrollment and transportation, and they call themselves ACL based on their first names. They've got merch that they've developed for ACL. They play basketball with each other every Friday. They bring in View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
kitchen to a larger production facility in Vermont. Over the next few years, he and his family orchestrated the creation of an entire line of nationally distributed condiments and pasta sauces. In 1995, his natural foods company, Uncle... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
you couldn’t see more than fifty feet in front of you. All we could do at that point was sit it out. My soldiers drove around and delivered my battalion’s food and water. It seemed like we were all spread out, but when the storm cleared... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
Brian Kenny: Here's a hypothetical for you. Imagine you're sitting at your favorite coffee shop when a teenager pulls up a chair and asks you to share a bunch of personal information. He wants to know your birthday, what kind of food you... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Roots Back to the Roots is a startup with a social mission to “undo food”—to reconnect people to where their food comes from. In late 2017, they are contemplating their next move. Back to the Roots has an eclectic portfolio of products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
on renewable energy, clean technology, waste management, water and sanitation, food and agribusiness, affordable housing, healthcare, and education and livelihood creation? Is the board ready to incorporate development banking into the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
reboots of Punk’d and Singled Out by MTV Studios. And down at the low-cost bottom of the pyramid, Quibi is hoping to build a daily habit out of essentials like sports, news, and weather. Like the carbs of the food pyramid, these nibbles... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
offered in the lounges—showers, spa, Internet connection, appetizing free food and drinks, along with the opportunity to rest during a layover—is exceptional value to members. There is even a higher class of lounge facilities for an even... View Details