Packaging - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

students to really explore financial aid packages at different schools. Many of these students have a strong desire to give back; to use this newfound privilege to lift others up. But financial realities can prevent them from pursuing... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

e-commerce. The grocery and packaged food spaces were untouched and opportune for e-commerce applications. He shared that exploring a space and carving out an idea requires you to seek out feedback from various perspectives. Acquiring... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

occur at the farm level. The remaining emissions come from operations, logistics, packaging and retail and consumer use. On Scope 1 and 2 emissions, Arla explained how they plan to secure 100% green electricity, maximize operational and... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

information, he also saw a need for the School to experiment with new technologies and forms of packaging intellectual content, which had emerged as part of the changing competitive landscape for business schools. In typical fashion,... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

country-specific data rather than an adoption of general policy principles from abroad. It implies to identify which policies are truly critical at a given point in time, instead of trying to do everything in parallel. And it implies identifying which View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

is doing, but “sideways” is rarely the right direction. For example, in early 2016, leaders of the package delivery venture Shyp were refining the company’s business model and dialing back earlier expansion moves in search of profit.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

employees to send packages to correct addresses. Instead of a blanket policy prohibiting web use, Piovesan suggests employers give workers periodic breaks for personal communications. "We think it would be a good idea to give... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Sebastian Velasco

Durango is a small town in Mexico, but that didn't stop Sebastian Velasco's mother from starting a paper and packaging manufacturing business there with her brothers. "She was one of the few women there who studied in college and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

04 Jun 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

Summing Up The Subscription Model: Down but Not Out Just as manufacturing organizations are once again adopting a subscription model as a means of pricing product-service packages marketed as solutions, it appears that Internet-based... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Industry Information - Alumni

the global personal care and household product market. Recently, it has added features on a variety of subjects, and expanded coverage in fast-growing markets in Asia and Latin America. CPG Matters A twice-monthly e-zine directed to the consumer View Details

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

on the review site Yelp shut permanently during the pandemic. Don’t be afraid of bankruptcy protection So, what should consumers and policymakers do now as benefits from the CARES Act are running out and a second federal stimulus package... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

source with alternative packaging and techniques that cut back on manufacturing inputs to start. Make waste-reduction and source-separation initiatives a personal and communal responsibility (the pandemic, for example, has seen a... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

consumers . They bought and used mass-produced goods as participants in a national market.” 3 A block of soap previously made at home or bought in bulk at the general store now materialized before the customer as a highly advertised, distinctively View Details

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Industrial firms have traditionally had closer sales-marketing ties than consumer goods companies, especially consumer packaged goods companies. Even the traditional industrial goods ties are not strong enough for the current challenges.... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

20 May 2022
Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

resistant plants, novel biofuels processes, and alternative meat production. This year we’ve further expanded and even have a few non-life sciences teams in our cohort, working on industrial waste recycling and recyclable packaging... View Details

12 Mar 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO

Successful family CEOs often have the values, vision, passion for the business and abilities to build loyalty with key owners, customers, suppliers, and the employees that make them the right leaders of their companies, even if they lack certain skills. You need to... View Details

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

director Frank Capra's underdog tales lightened Depression-era despair with irrepressible optimism and laughter. Capra's "fantasies of goodwill" packaged hope for the hopeless. The Cinderella Man, James J. Braddock, was an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

values. Please see the Stata manual entry for memory for more information. R In R, the mem_used() function of the pryr package can inform your variable usage. Please see the http://adv-r.had.co.nz/memory.html (by Hadley Wickham) for more... View Details

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