Globalization Of Food Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Turning High Potential into Real Reward

mainstream customers. Therefore, a key issue is who do you do business with initially who lets the venture start moving down the "right" product road map? Who do you do business with initially who... View Details

Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

industry, which reached global sales of $1.9 trillion in 2019. Even before the pandemic, roughly 28 percent of global apparel transactions were... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

conditions in the world today: the declining capabilities of government, the massive size and increasing sophistication of the global financial markets, and the impacts View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

10 Apr 2019
HBS Case

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

a young boy he met begging for money during a trip to Peru. “That experience authentically changed how he and his wife viewed the world,” Wu says. He launched the business with a dual goal of creating... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

explored as well as to clarify my own attitudes toward fracking and its role towards any global solution. We must have a global solution—a set of new choices that change plans... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

training they provide, market pressures, corporate governance shortcomings, and even the nature of leadership itself. John led the charge by saying, “Having taught within business schools for 20 years, I’ve... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

joined this train of thought as he commented, “A new economy has not arrived, if we define it as one that will sustain humanity on the planet for eternity ” The reasons it has not arrived are many, he continued. “(Unsustainable) View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

business strategy 101 for most entrepreneurs, so why have so many mobile money service offerings failed? It’s a question being studied by Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

creating the final versions. Some companies even base their business model on co-production; Build-a-Bear stores allow consumers to create personalized teddy bears. "With the growth of customizable... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, more than 40 percent View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

conclude that business leadership would be wise to push past pride and the false sense of self importance, and include within the decision making process those in the enterprise who know the actual nuts and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

06 Nov 2000
What Do You Think?

Succession at GE: What’s Next?

and Jones—suave, dispassionate, and an accountant by background—had been named in several polls as the most outstanding CEO in America as well as a true business statesman in his efforts to build bridges between government and business.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

November 2019
Supplement

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Matthew Preble

This video supplement pairs with “Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.” (case no. 418011). It contains eight individual clips that range in length from 5 to 12 minutes. Instructors can use the videos, either in whole or in part, as an additional teaching... View Details

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04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Ziff-Davis and is now the ninth largest network on the Internet. The tales of these two firms (along with that of Donna Dubinsky, a member of the HBS Class View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

article, “Use of Crowd Innovation to Develop an Artificial Intelligence-Based Solution for Radiation Therapy Targeting,” is co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Karim R. Lakhani and seven... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

magazine, a well-read US publication devoted to in-depth stories on music, politics, and pop culture, featured Murdoch at the top of its list of politicians or business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

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