Consumer - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Surveying Students’ Summer Plans

be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Andrzej Baraniak

Andrzej cofounded Albert, a direct to consumer FinTech service, in 2015. As of 2023 Albert raised over $200 million in VC funding, has over a million subscribers, and is supported by a team of over 150 employees. Prior to Albert, Andrzej... View Details

Hans W. Becherer

Becherer rebuilt Deere & Company, following the financial farm crisis of the 1980s, into a diverse, global competitor. In 1998, revenues from outside the United States accounted for approximately 25% of Deere & Company sales. Becherer so successfully... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

Portrait Project

Daniella Yacobovsky

choices. The prospect of losing my memory in the twilight of my life makes me more appreciative of forming those memories now. My life has felt consumed with preparation for later, and my never-ending quest for professional achievement.... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credits

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a... View Details

11 May 2021
News

Pitching to Win

the five grand-prize winners. Goble is co-founder of Karivez Bio, a platform for transforming chronic disease treatment through improved drug delivery. Okrah is founder and CEO of Chaku Foods, a fast-moving consumer goods company based in... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

04 Sep 2019
News

A Climate Change Optimist

power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and draw what’s there back down.” For Green America, that’s meant leading View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe

01 Sep 2010
News

Online Fashionistas

Groupe, now with a division for men’s clothing and entering travel markets as well, has grown from 5 employees to more than 400. Membership is by invitation by other members or by registering at the site (www.gilt.com); that exclusivity is a selling point for both... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

10 May 2023
News

Alumna Snags an Emmy

Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Kathryn Smith Cochrane’s (MBA 2016) recent Emmy award win didn’t have the anticipatory stress of the ones you see on TV.... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

Profile

Laura Sandoval

in ecommerce with Zarbee’s Naturals (now a consumer brand of Johnson & Johnson), Laura turned her attention to an MBA. “I saw big gaps in the pursuit of the ‘triple bottom line: finding ways to use business to benefit people, profits,... View Details

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Career Journey | MBA

context. Job Locations Asia 5% Canada < 1% Europe 5% Latin America 1% Middle East / North Africa < 1% United States 88% Class of 2024 who actively sought and accepted full-time roles after graduation. Industry Consulting 18% Consumer... View Details

11 Jan 2019
News

Case Study: Beating Bias

school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized he (like many others) had been consuming media that only confirmed his own political bias and, in so doing, had failed to get the full picture of the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2009
News

Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage

fruitfully partner in a global economy. Bhidé argues that high-level know-how developed in other countries benefits the United States because it is highly mobile and cheap: What is invented expensively in Taiwan, for example, can then be produced cheaply in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

package delivery. The American consumer has rising expectations about the speed and quality of package delivery. So what we’re working toward is a 7-day, 364-days-of-the-year schedule. Do you know the one day we’re not going to deliver?... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2014
News

Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs

Savingforcollege.com, which Cordero describes as "the Consumer Reports of 529 plans.") The plan is to capitalize on market share down the road: "There is a lot of value in processing millions of dollars of new assets," he remarks. "Our... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Gradsave; crowdfunding; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

25 Aug 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

Trump, the demographics of opposition to the president put unique pressure on business leaders. He is astoundingly unpopular with the young. In August, among adults under 35, Trump had a disapproval rating of 62 percent with only 22 percent approval. Advertisers target... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

“where people live, learn, work, and play.” Many firms acknowledge the importance of employee health to their bottom lines, and have also started taking steps to improve their consumer health and environmental health footprints. Target,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

12 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get

read so that anyone can understand what they did. But they often don’t.” Jonathan Tamblyn, the head of talent at L2, a consumer products digital marketing firm, sees the challenge through the lens of cutting-edge companies that have... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

August 2021
Supplement

Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (C)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Emilie Billaud

Describes the events that took place in the first year after Danone became France’s first “entreprise à mission” (mission-driven company). View Details

Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe

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August 2021
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Danone S.A.: Becoming a Mission-Driven Company (B)