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- 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
Richard J. Reynolds
Though his tobacco company had much success with its chewing tobacco products in the early 1910s, it was Reynolds' introduction of the Camel cigarette line in 1913 that was his... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
$1 per can. According to this testimony, Walmart rejected Blitz's design on the basis of the price increase, and Blitz halted its redesign project because it would be difficult to launch a national View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
I have been so happy at BaubleBar. A product I believe in, a great group, a perfect job for me. So just don’t take it personally when you have to keep plugging – it’s worth it. Do it!” -Laurie Matthews,... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
know we have the capability in McHenry to fix any problem and make that product work.” CGM has some twenty full-time U.S. employees. Although the global recession brought about downsizing at the company in 2009, View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
It’s going to be a beautiful summer…
know, the really large beauty retailer” I replied. “Oh I think my [sister] [mom] [wife] buys her makeup there do you work at a store?” .. No, no, it’s not what you think. Or maybe it is. In any case, I am actually based out of their... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
company Beiersdorf is the most dramatic. Beiersdorf faced the worst of all worlds in terms of political risk. It was a determined multinational investor before World War I, and then lost everything as the United States and other Allied... View Details
- Profile
Fola Folowosele
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At Mesoamerica Energy, the wind energy company I worked at prior to business school, I held a cross functional role that straddled engineering and business development. It was through this... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
Affects Our Behavior. It turns out that working on a relatively large machine (like a desktop computer) causes users to act more assertively than working on a small one (like an iPad). “We wanted to study how interacting with a device... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the Health & Wellness Club
hard look at their health and the habits that contribute to it, whether through at-home workouts, herbal remedies, clean products within our homes, or emotional grounding through meditation and self-care techniques. As View Details
- Fast Answer
Patent search: Product-associated patents
How can I find patents associated to a particular (branded) product? It is always a challenge to conduct a patent search by product (or "brand name") because: Almost all the patented... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
unusually high U.S. productivity gains of the past six years accrued to managers, employees and customers rather than investors. The analysis concludes that more than 97 percent of the gains from increased View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Anna Wang | MBA
Anna Wang Computer Science Cabot 2022 Cohort 4 I'm excited to be part of a community of innovative, entrepreneurial thinkers where we can learn from one another and support each other through our endeavors. It takes so many different... View Details
Peter F. Hurst
citizenship forced him to relinquish his business. After the war, Hurst regained control of his business and built it into a full-scale supplier of parts for conveying and moving fluids – often ones that were very dangerous. In the... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
retailer profitability, and the impact of each policy on customer decisions about the size of their shopping carts and whether to purchase from particular product categories. It was written by Ngwe and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
differences between drivers,” explains Oberholzer-Gee. “For the top 10 percent of DoorDash drivers Laura and I studied, losing flexibility is equivalent to a 17 percent pay cut. For the average driver, it is about a third of that value.”... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
to everyone I could find who was even remotely associated with the tomato paste industry.” To her surprise, HBS faculty had written numerous cases on tomatoes. After reading one on the Morning Star Company, a California-based tomato processing firm, she contacted View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
Petrochemicals are all around us—from ubiquitous plastic packaging to the inconspicuous lining of your takeaway coffee cup, and in everyday products like soaps, deodorants, and toothpaste. But that will change, according to Matthew Perkins (MBA 2009). When industries... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Replicating Toyota's Success
years of on-site research at Toyota and its affiliates, in 1999 Spear and HBS professor H. Kent Bowen published a Harvard Business Review article titled "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System."... View Details