Filter Results:
(726)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(726)
- People (3)
- News (158)
- Research (487)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (303)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(726)
- People (3)
- News (158)
- Research (487)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (303)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... 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
- 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
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
professionals, and parents alike forge their own paths to fulfillment. Publisher's Link: http://www.harpercollins.com/books/How-Will-You-Measure-Your-Life-Karen-Dillon?isbn=9780062102416&HCHP=TB_How+Will+You+Measure+Your+Life Retail... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
food production is incredibly resource intensive and that even a small shift in consumption and production can have a massive impact on greenhouse gas emissions. From there, Karen Skelton, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy at the... 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
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
her devotees books on pies and wreaths, the king of hip hop has published a best-selling biography of slain rap star Tupac Shakur and will soon release an illustrated history of hip hop. Both multimedia franchises are continually finding... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
million well-off shoppers and 463 grocery stores in key U.S. markets. Whole Foods could absorb Amazon’s technology and process expertise to modernize and reduce its operating costs, which were among the highest in the industry. For... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 11 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: HelloFresh
genuine passion for food and a very customer-centric mindset. What recruiting tactics have you found most successful in engaging with students and/or alumni at HBS?On-campus interviews is what we find most successful. We love investing... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. What-ever the genre (he has also published romance novels, science fiction, and children’s books), readers expect a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
Andrew Miller (MBA 1988), writer and coauthor, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN Nick Taranto Photo courtesy of Nick Taranto "We will see more investment in the tech-enabled food space. Many investors and entrepreneurs... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
and recovery to be associated with increases in orders from Hugo Boss's retailer customers Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity Authors:Robin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
(Abridged):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411066-PDF-ENG Robin Bienenstock at Sanford C. Bernstein Linda A. Hill and Dana M. TeppertHarvard Business School Supplement 411-053 Robin Bienenstock, a senior sell-side equity research analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
Boeing CEO has focused on short-term earnings, increasingly at the expense of franchise value and safety. Will the company’s new CEO have the courage to return Boeing to its former position as the world leader in aviation? Wells Fargo:... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Wanderlust event. The brand, she says, is synonymous with “finding out what’s important to you and whether your life is moving in the right direction. Being vulnerable. Being honest with yourself.” Wanderlust retreats combine yoga, inspirational speakers, music, art,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 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
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
faced challenges such as data redundancy, missing data, and the presence of irrelevant information. We then apply the model to data from a retail context and illustrate how the focal firm could form customers' first impressions by merely... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman