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17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

on this historical legacy we find ourselves with a President who utilizes well-known racial dog whistles, such as calls for “law and order”, labeling protestors “thugs,” and quoting a well-known Southern segregationist (“when the looting... View Details

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

is far more complex. Despite years of social change, the label “bad mother” still looms large for women who struggle with guilt and sense judgment if they’re late to pick up their child from day care. Fathers face their own painful choice... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

humor in the idea of the man they labeled "a dirty Talmud Jew," lodged a protest with the State Department, and refused to participate in the festivities. The IBM is not merely an organization of men; it is an institution that... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

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Cristina Ros Blankfein

kitchen, packaged them, put a label on that we had printed at the HBS copy center and we brought them to a party. We put them on a bar and told all our friends that this was our first stab at our zero calorie, all-natural cocktail mixer.... View Details

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Ruzwana Bashir

best experiences (from wine tours to swimming with dolphins), and the company provides robust online booking tools for activity operators to help them better run their businesses. The company has already been labeled “The OpenTable... View Details

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

Beshears, Katherine Lyford Milkman, Max H. Bazerman, and Lisa Sutherland Abstract Background—Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

nutritional labels for their products, earning a certificate of approval when they address FDA concerns. "They get these consultations and they are somewhat meaningless—they have little to do with the USDA approval process,"... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

employees don't know how to quantify their own value, either. This induces a situation in which employees in support functions are saddled—or saddle themselves—with limiting labels such as "support staff" or, worse,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2014
HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

techniques—though Francesco admits in the case that this is an uphill battle. The way Francesco handles quality control inside the plant is especially unique. While most companies package and label their products separately, the bulk of... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

supermarket for "dolphin-safe" tuna, so Star-Kist decided to fish in safer waters and raised prices accordingly. In reality, even the most well-meaning customers didn't want to shell out more money for a can of tuna even if it was View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

David A. Frankel

classmates until the end of his second year but he embraced the opportunity to be a VC “on the inside.” Being able to sit in Spangler for lunch kicking around ideas with a talent like Dixon “was an amazing position to be in. I was not View Details

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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

Information Private information on individuals and organizations must be labeled as such, stored in such a way as to prevent unauthorized access, and destroyed when no longer needed. Informed written consent must be obtained for any... View Details

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

Drucker became skeptical of the methodology, particularly when it was tied to monetary incentives that led managers to game the system by understating what they could achieve. Slowly, the notion of stretch goals emerged. Jim Collins and Jerry Porras put a memorable... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

organizational processes that help explain pioneers’ divergent trajectories. For these category commoners, scattershot rhetorical attacks generate unanticipated costs while benefitting competitors; embracing imposed labels constrains... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

investigations and advice of chemist Bernhard Hesse. However, the USDA didn’t require the use of certified dyes—or even the certification of food dyes, much to Hesse’s chagrin; it was still legal to use uncertified dyes, provided the food View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

and look at it more clearly. Release your emotional grip on the problem: Based on a Harvard Business Review article “Pull the Plug on Stress,” by Bruce Cryer, Rollin McCraty, and Doc Childre, Margolis recommends you first recognize the emotion you’re feeling, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2010
News

Eric Schiffer

product that didn’t do well, or it could be something that the new product replaced. Or maybe it’s just a package or labeling change. These special buys, or closeouts, are about 50 percent of our products. Around 95 percent of what we buy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

products of value to someone. The purpose of this chapter is to build a robust and versatile language that is capable of representing large technical systems. The language is based on elements I have labeled functional components. The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

options. Several conclusions emerge: 1. As suggested by the example above and further elaborated on below, the dual-reporting system can enable opportunistic behavior by managers at the expense of investors and tax authorities. This insight, from an emerging body of... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

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