Restaurant - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

client portfolios. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/410139-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-121 Pho Hoa Dorchester Pho Hoa is a traditional, family-owned Vietnamese restaurant in Dorchester,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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FIELD Global Immersion: South Korea

Korea, or restaurants Korea). Search tips: use concise keywords. Go to "Analysis" section for full industry reports. Also helpful: the "Consumer Lifestyles in X" reports ("Consumer Lifestyles in South... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered

an enormous and long-lasting impact on students and faculty alike.” After retiring from the faculty in 1993, Pearson served as an operating partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice until 1997 and as chairman and CEO of YUM Brands, PepsiCo’s View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Tipping Point

tips impractical, explains Nyamumbo, but cryptocurrencies don’t have the same transaction fees, which could allow someone buying a cup of coffee to leave a tip for the coffee farmers at the same time they leave one for the barista. Approximately 80 percent of American... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

begin by analyzing restaurant reviews that are identified by Yelp's filtering algorithm as suspicious or fake-and treat these as a proxy for review fraud (an assumption we provide evidence for). We present four main findings. First,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

reviews on average) and accuracy (some reviewers are more erratic than others), (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3) product quality to change over time. We apply this approach to reviews from Yelp.com to derive optimal ratings for each View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Colombia

style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To begin, enter industry and geography keywords in search (ex: beauty India, or View Details

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

on firm exit in the restaurant industry, exploiting recent changes in the minimum wage at the city level. We find that the impact of the minimum wage depends on whether a restaurant was already close to the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2024
News

Action Plan: Yes, Chef!

Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune

26 Jan 2015
News

The Ingredients for Success

something in a different way.” Markowitz was surrounded by creative types recently as she presented NOCHI’s plans to a group that included restaurant owners, tourism officials, chefs, and food business entrepreneurs. Ti Martin stood up to... View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care,... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

opportunity came knocking four years later when college fraternity brother William F. (“Rick”) Cronk (AMP 92, 1983), with whom he shared the daily commute, invited Rogers to join him as a partner in a restaurant venture. Rogers hesitated... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

that stands between the consumer and the provider. You don't see this problem in food service - where restaurants pile on needless amounts of food just to charge for more of it. If customers don't like being charged needlessly, they will... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2024
Blog Post

It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School

checklists. Whenever there is a new IFC location, or if it’s been a few years since an assessment visit, they need to check and update details such as hotel Wi-Fi quality, access to smaller meeting rooms, restaurants that can accommodate... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups "R" Us

which enables Web sites to protect themselves from online attacks; Diagnostics For All, a nonprofit that develops low-cost disease diagnostics for the developing world; and Finale, a Boston-area chain of upscale restaurants specializing... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

markets, trade tariffs, and taxation virtually overnight in 1991, sending shock waves throughout its economy. For YPF, at the time heavily diversified in cinemas, airlines, hotels, and restaurants in addition to energy, the first order of... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

Also, McDonald's has already shouldered some of the costs of establishing quick-service restaurant formats locally. Sell Out. Even in cases where the big deal makes sense, it may be better for your company's shareholders if you're the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

Profile

Erika Sanchez

the kinds of opportunities they offer. Now I look at the way companies run and how they are aligned with my values.” For her summer internship, Erika will be working in Business Strategy for Danaher in Portland, Oregon. After graduation, Erika says she wants something... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

you’re the head of marketing for a logistics company. My parents emigrated here from Japan. There were very few Japanese restaurants in Washington, D.C. when I was growing up, so my grandmother would pack sea-mail packages to us every... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979 they sold the business and retired. In 2000, Blake became... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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