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  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Beyond the Plastisphere

2050 our oceans will contain more of it by weight than fish. Single-use petroleum-based plastics contaminate our water, pollute our land, and contribute to global warming. And given current rates of View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing

    Madam C. J. Walker

    The intensity of Walker’s early jobs began to cause hair loss, and it was out of this unfortunate circumstance that grew her “secret” formula for a scalp ointment that promoted healthy hair growth. Madame Walker began selling her View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
    • 15 Apr 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

    Most compelling is the high return rate for apparel products purchased online, which mirrors the rate for catalog apparel purchases: By one estimate, returns for apparel bought from catalogs ranged from 12 to 35 percent, depending on the... View Details
    Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
    • 24 Feb 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

    markets is a sector notorious for its lack of differentiation between players. Once location has played out its magic, retailers tend to get squeezed in a business characterized by the infernal duo of low... View Details
    Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
    • Profile

    Nathalie du Preez

    Why was getting a HBS MBA important to you? HBS, in particular, appealed to me for its general management focus, the diversity and quality of its people, its close alumni... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products
    • 18 Nov 2016
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job

    Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job with expanded responsibilities. But it can be done. Research into the the concept of "stretchwork." Reflecting... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Oct 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

    started their business, their product line enjoyed little consumer awareness outside New York City. But the couple was determined to build a large market for premium cosmetics. One of the earliest and most important decisions that the... View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
    • 23 Jul 2024
    • In Practice

    The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

    overseas suppliers. One example is Hasbro, which began sourcing from firms in India, Vietnam, and Mexico in the last five years. Moving existing suppliers out of China. Goertek, a supplier of Google’s Pixel watch, and Foxconn, a manufacturer of Apple’s MacBook, have... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products; Industrial Products
    • 01 Jun 2012
    • News

    A Better World, One Idea at a Time

    A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the... View Details
    Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production
    • 01 Jun 2009
    • News

    Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

    ELY: Drilling down for valuable perspectives on how gender issues affect efficiency, safety, and productivity in the workplace. Field-based research can take HBS faculty members to some unusual places. Professor Robin Ely’s recent working... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
    • 01 Mar 2014
    • News

    The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

    system of multinational megafarms won't be enough—the hope for the future lies not in mass production, but in production by the masses. And that's where Nigeria comes in. With only 40 percent of its arable... View Details
    Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production
    • 10 Jan 2020
    • Blog Post

    Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Retail

    retailers’ business models” said Laurie. “While it is a challenging time for the retail industry in some ways, retail tech is definitely moving the industry and students are seeking out these early stage companies.” Who are the students... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
    • 11 Dec 2014
    • News

    Fashion's Retail Revolution

    department stores, but it was rare to find them in customer-facing positions, the fashion piece of the fashion retail business. To learn more about these seven HBS Alumni trendsetters, click on their photos below: Marjorie Yang Instilling... View Details
    Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing

      William K. Coors

      Under Coors' leadership, the brewery underwent a period of massive growth. Though it was a regional brewery, it held the top market share in 10 of the 11 western states in which View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • 01 Apr 1999
      • News

      Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

      focus instead on improving the performance of existing products - what I call sustaining technologies. For this reason, good companies have little difficulty succeeding in sustaining innovation - even radical innovation. If their... View Details
      • 25 Jul 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      An Organization Your Customers Understand

      market-facing units. To answer this question we must recognize that there are several markets that are important to the success of organizations. Let's consider the pharmaceutical firm. In its product and... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert Simons
      • 01 Mar 2012
      • News

      Where Innovation Rules

      manufacturing, from entertainment to energy. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a world without the products and services created by HBS alumni. In the pages that follow, we present profiles of contemporary HBS... View Details
      Keywords: Deborah Blagg;Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Educational Services; Management
      • 16 Jun 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

      Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
      Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
      • 18 Apr 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

      of store finance and operations for youth retailer Abercrombie & Fitch, Inc., said his company uses all its channels to magnify its brand message. "For us, it's all about building brands, and... View Details
      Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
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      Olivia Wenzel | MBA

      and it was the joint effort of user-focused product development, dedicated customer success managers, and the right sales approach. Working at that health tech startup taught me that the power of technology... View Details
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