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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718039 Harvard Business School Case 517-064 Note on the Impact of Millennials on the Food System In 2016, the millennial generation (those age 19 to 35 in 2016), the largest generation by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Kameda was the leading player in the Japanese rice cracker market and was looking to expand overseas to achieve growth, with the vision of becoming a global food company. Starting in 2008, it had tried to market its best-selling product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
story-one located far from the factory floor. Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship Between Relative Wages and Employee Theft Authors:Tatiana Sandino and C. X. Chen Publication:Journal of Accounting Research 50, no. 4 (2012) Abstract In this study we examine whether,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup
The company aims to transform health food with a lesser known super-seed (Sacha Inchi), which has a superior nutritional profile compared to most conventional nuts and seeds. The mission was to do this not just through its products, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
its wine, but inferior product from Canada and China had begun flooding the market, driving down retail prices from $50 a pound that year to $12 a pound by 2006. Instead of joining the family business, Hsu went to work for General Mills... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
willingness to purchase organic, indulgent, and baseline items. In this case, the results showed no significant difference between the two groups with regard to organic items, which rated highly across the board. However, participants were more likely to buy indulgent... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
higher quality products Global status—the idea that transnational brands confer an elite status on the buyer Country-of-origin quality—the idea that "a food chain" of production means that higher-quality goods are created in the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
expensive merchandise with a limited wear life. PriceGrabber is a decoupler, too. Traditional consumer electronic retail stores depend on customers to come to their showrooms and tire-kick TVs and sound systems before buying. But the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
Rounding out Marketing's agenda are multifaceted research projects. Professor Walter J. Salmon is looking at the costs and benefits of product variety for retailers and manufacturers as part of a joint project with the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
microplastics per liter. “All the plastic our society is consuming is ending up in our oceans and waterways, where it is breaking down into tiny pieces and appearing in the water we drink, the food we eat, and the formula I was making for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Turning Point: Sparking Change
teaching in the MBA program at the University of Chicago, I find myself remembering my own MBA experience and the professors who made such a difference in my life. My retailing professor, Claudine Malone, was exceptional in her teaching... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
impressive, its existence also raises many questions. What are consumers really buying when they buy a perfume, or face cream, or lipstick? Scents which last a few hours or face creams that can’t be seen once applied are neither straightforwardly utilitarian products,... View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
look and design to inspire a positive reaction. By the holiday season in 2014, Be Mixed launched its first major production run and is currently being sold in 17 different food stores in the New York City area. The pair also unveiled a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
treasurer. Last fall, the two brothers consolidated stock in the business between them after buying out the stakes of other family members. “I concentrate on the overall experience of our business with special attention to the retail... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
company. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719456-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-038 Index In December 2017, Marc Freed-Finnegan and Jonathan Wall, the co-founders of retail technology company Index, had to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Complexity By: Célérier, Claire, and Boris Vallée Abstract—This paper investigates the rationale for issuing complex securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
understanding the lack of diversity in entrepreneurship and the venture capital industry. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52704 Cellophane, the New Visuality, and the Creation of Self-Service Food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS
were a dynamic experience from start to finish. I found myself surrounded by so many smart and inspiring people who collectively brought such diverse perspectives. My first seat-mates were-- on my left,-- a young man from Baltimore who had been a leader in the View Details