packaging - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

decision is made thinking about the entire supply chain—the components work together and reinforce one another. Too often, I find that retailers make decisions regarding product variety, promotion, and packaging with no regard for what... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

over 80 of her lipsticks to the luncheon as table gifts. Unlike most lipsticks at the time, these were housed in metal cases. Lunch guests noticed the unusual packaging and the lipstick's color and texture. As the event broke up, Fiske... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

proposed that "the board could tie the CEO's exit package with the grooming of a successor." B.V. Krishnamurthy said that "the ultimate solution may be similar to the job rotation concept of the Japanese companies in their... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

seems likely that Brazil will work with Canada to arrive at mutually agreeable financing packages to be used by each country. HBS professors Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro recently co-wrote a business case with Brett Laschinger on the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

stalled right now. As the book argues, macroeconomic reforms and stimulus packages are not going to be the answer. There's still little real change in Japan on the government side, other than some marginal improvements. The response on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

authorities in the U.S. and the EU in formulating environmental regulations in three areas: automotive emissions for health-related (criteria) pollutants, packaging waste, and global climate change. Automotive emissions are relatively... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

Credit: malerapaso For as much as American politicians and their constituents complain about taxes, the truth is that tax reform packages to address those complaints are rare—the last major reform of the tax code was passed in 1986 under... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

marketing executive who had insightfully figured out how a just-emerging market was structured, had helped to shape a new product and service package that did an important job well for customers who had been nonconsumers, and so on. With... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

by calling attention to Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli's compensation package and the company's poor performance. The AFL-CIO Office of Investments advocates for improved corporate governance at public companies, focusing on the problems... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

consumers and hosts, as well as the effects on hotels, will likely become less pronounced. Just as Airbnb is adding experience packages to its home-rental offerings, so too are hotels such as Marriott International. And maybe hotels could... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

of having abusive managers overpaying themselves. Yet I argue that because the scheme of executive compensation was voted by shareholders and was transparent (unlike some of the packages that managers get today in the same firms in Brazil... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

You have to have a major part of your value-add in hard-to-replicate areas that require expertise or experience that you can’t just buy off the shelf in some advanced design or manufacturing tool. An industrial design firm was recently showing me some of the new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

must pay the cost of the marketplace, not the sellers. Sahlman: Scott, can you give us the short version of your career? Randall: After working at Procter & Gamble in brand management and in consumer packaged goods, I got into... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

acceded to the European Union and in 2008 to the Eurozone. However, in 2012, facing fiscal deficits and an insolvent banking sector, the island became the fourth EU country to formally request assistance from the EC-ECB-IMF Troika. The final assistance View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

driven by China's insatiable appetite for raw materials. Then the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, brewing challenges for the world's biggest exporter of coal and iron ore. Prime Minister Rudd pushed for massive stimulus packages... View Details