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  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

find first—the customer chicken or the service egg? “As a small company you cannot afford to focus on both with the same amount of effort. You may need to prioritize one side.” Preparing to teach a new course on e-commerce marketing next... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

cognitive trust, meanwhile, had no correlation with cultural metacognition. In order to put these findings to a further test, the team designed a third, more hands-on experiment involving 236 undergraduates. First, each participant was asked to come up with a new View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

credit card debt to postpone the day of reckoning. Too many Americans have been expressing the Dream through the acquisition of stuff. Americans need a refresher course on the American dream. The Constitution speaks of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 04 Oct 2021
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

putting selection decisions in the hands of the powerful, as the saying goes, invite the fox into the chicken house? How do we make sure the right people end up with power in organizations? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • 26 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

sights of chicken coops, dead pigs, and other barnyard realities. But at the local grocery stores, food was often kept either behind the counter or in a back room, hidden away from the public, and consumers depended on the grocer or... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising
  • 06 Aug 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

Santana: Americans consume more food on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year, other than Thanksgiving. We consume, literally, millions of pounds of potato chips and avocados. Billions of chicken wings, tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 31 May 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water

"job" that customers were "hiring" a milkshake to do. KFC’s Explosive Growth in China In China, Yum! Brands opens a KFC restaurant every day. But this is not the KFC you know in America. A case study written by David Bell and Mary Shelman reveals... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Food & Beverage
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

notoriously slow technology adoption and rigid regulations. These were among the issues addressed in "Beyond Chicken and Egg–Strategic Challenges for Digital Marketplaces," one of eight panel discussions at the Digital Transformation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

presidential election. These results highlight the trade-offs associated with mobilizing voters in recently established democracies. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50950 Harvard Business School Case 516-052 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

fox into the chicken coop, so to speak, since the CEO/chairman sits at the head of the table, leads the discussions, and in effect controls the flow of information, since he knows more than anybody else. The notion of a strong leader has... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

chicken and value-added chicken products in Pakistan. This position has been built through a strategy of vertical integration, product innovation, and branding. K&N's has also developed its own chain of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2008
  • HBS Case

Economics of the Ethanol Business

modern American agricultural system. As our economy becomes more information-driven, it's good to remind ourselves that we still need to eat cornflakes, or chickens that ate cornflakes, and that we still need to get around," he... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Energy
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings can rattle employees and weaken confidence. At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

discussion about racial equality by having baristas write ‘Race Together’ on coffee cups.” And when chicken chain Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy spoke out against gay marriage in 2012, his statements sparked a great deal of backlash and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

account, we present six studies, conducted in the field and in the lab. A pre-registered field experiment indicated that diners were 21.1% more likely to buy a bowl of chicken noodle soup when a sign revealing its ingredients also... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

experiment indicated that diners were 21.1% more likely to buy a bowl of chicken noodle soup when a sign revealing the ingredients of the soup also included the cafeteria’s costs to make the soup (Study 1). Three subsequent lab... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

concept. Built with authentic interiors and fixtures imported from Japan, the restaurants featured a working chef at every table, flamboyantly preparing and grilling familiar American foods such as shrimp, beef, and chicken ("No... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

specializing in part on fried chicken and Tex-Mex food. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/712422-PDF-ENG Building Cities: A Technical Note Arthur I Segel and Oliver O. HartlebenHarvard Business School Note 213-006 World population... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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