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- 5 Sep 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States
By: Ai Hisano
This paper examines the role of color in the marketing and retailing of food products by focusing on the increasingly popular presentation of food in clear packages in the early-twentieth-century United States. In the 1910s, a candy company began using cellophane to... View Details
Hisano, Ai. "The Color of Taste: Selling Food in Clear Packages in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States." Paper presented at the CHORD Conference, Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD), Leeds, UK, September 5, 2013.
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
short-termism appears to increase investor risk? Serafeim: Many times corporate leaders complain that the market is short-term-oriented. Again, this is a general statement that fails to recognize that investors differ in their time horizons as well. Business leaders... View Details
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
fraud increased significantly, particularly in regions where the FBI focused its counterterrorism efforts, according to a study by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Trung Nguyen. The study is among the first to link the FBI’s... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Tokyo, MBK Partners focuses primarily on buyouts of consumer-facing businesses in China, Japan, and Korea. With nearly $30 billion in capital under management, the firm is raising its sixth flagship fund,... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
path through the upper ranks of investment banking as well as his success building one of the world’s leading investment funds focused on infrastructure. Today he runs Global... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Research Summary
Institutions and Corporate Lobbying
“Institutions and Make-or-Buy Decision of Lobbying: The Role of Sociopolitical Legitimacy on Foreign MNEs’ Lobbying Internalization”
In this study, I examine how legitimacy comes into play in foreign MNEs’ make-or-buy decisions... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Make V. Buy; Lobbying; Legitimacy; Corruption; Culture; Multinational Enterprise; United States
- 20 Jan 2022
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic
to retrench and soften the piece. In the wake of such decisions, leaders are left needing to rebuild trust with a workforce that’s already been battered. Moreover, trust repair is an opportunity to rebuild stronger trust. Three steps to rebuilding trust Research at... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- Web
Dean Nitin Nohria | About
individualized treatment of serious diseases. The resulting Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator convened more than 300 thinkers and front-line doers and disruptors to develop business strategies to take full advantage of future opportunities. November 2015 PEEK... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- Web
Business Insights Blog | HBS Online
policy, and redefining leadership across Europe. [...] Read more 10 Jun 2025 How to Improve Employee Experience on Your Team Tim Stobierski Author Contributors tag Entrepreneurship & Innovation Leadership Management Transforming View Details
- Research Summary
Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 11 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise
navigate their careers. My EC (second) year at HBS will be focused on growth, partnerships, and financing so I can pursue The Equity Network full-time after graduation. “It’s who you know, not what you know”... View Details
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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment
organization focused on environmental issues. HBS Forward Fellowship: Helps support students from lower-income backgrounds who have carried significant financial burdens or obligations. It helps ensure that... View Details
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Doing Business in Africa
By: John D. Macomber
This course introduces frameworks and models for smart and focused investing and operations across sectors, nations, industries, and time frames in Africa. Students will learn tools and skills to help navigate the business landscape of Africa in terms of selection... View Details
Keywords: Africa
- Article
The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education
By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details
Pearce, Jone L., and Laura Huang. "The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education." Academy of Management Learning & Education 11, no. 2 (June 2012): 247–262.
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
If they didn't understand it already, executives and corporate managers have learned one huge lesson over the past couple of years: macroeconomics matters. Interest rates. Exchange rates. Trade deficits. The Gross Domestic Product.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
of those in finance as they benefit from the obfuscation; it creates more mystery about what they do. This is particularly true when one looks at the array of differing institutions that interact in capital markets. In View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
percent of its revenues to fraud annually, which translates to a projected global fraud loss of $3.7 trillion. Most of those studies, however, have focused on the practical logic behind the crimes. What sets... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
luxurious airline, rather than a luxurious airport hotel. “I struggle with the idea of an airport hotel as a destination,” Kay said. Team Hilton also targeted hotels—specifically, the existing Tru by Hilton brand, which currently caters to millennials but View Details
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Sneha Biswas
incidentally, is also an HBS alum – during our undergrad, where I was one of the 30 women in a class of 750 men. I was focusing on my education when I stumbled upon him, but I... View Details