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- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
Companies spend many hundreds of billions of dollars on R&D each year, but the microwave oven was conceived from a melted candy bar, saccharin from an accidental chemical spill, and the Daguerre photo process via a shattered... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
Forrest E. Mars, Sr.
Under his leadership, Mars built the world’s largest candy company. After Milky Way’s and M&M’s success, he began to diversify the company’s production and introduced packaged pet foods to the British market. He also adopted a... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Portrait Project
David Askaryan
A few times every year in elementary school, a bunch of students would get suckered into selling candy for a school fundraiser. Each kid was aggressively encouraged to sell a minimum number of candies at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
walked into an empty Aldrich amphitheater, I relived memories of the case method. Candy Baffour-Awuah Candy Baffour-Awuah (Accra, Ghana) Best thing about HBS? The opportunity to pick up skills in class... View Details
- Portrait Project
Hannah Vazzana
music, and the perfect candy hearts with our names embossed on them were all Martha Stewart "flawless," the memories are of vows of love and friendship, a new family beginning, and two people forever changed. That makes me... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Len Schlesinger Returns
other. Right now I feel very much like a kid in a candy store who is trying not to overeat. What are you looking forward to working on? I continue to be intrigued by the role of entrepreneurial activity inside large corporations. Right... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
and Applied Sciences, which is renamed in his honor President, Paulson & Co. Inc. John Paulson’s knack for business was evident early on. At six, he sold Charms candies on the playground in his Queens neighborhood. Buying the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Portrait Project
Danielle Slutzky
She kept a mini fridge in her bedroom stocked with my favorite chocolate, Pesek Zman, the Israeli version of the Kit Kat bar. My grandmother led me to her fridge when I visited each June. By age seven, I’d imagine the red and yellow wrapped View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
on the screen. "The client was like a kid in a candy shop," Mueller recalls. "It was one of those moments when you know you're really on to something." For Mueller, that "something" has become a thriving company that currently has 700... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- Profile
Jennifer DeWhitt
While she was still in school, Jennifer DeWhitt bought sugar cubes from her classmates, which became raw material for candy pencils she subsequently sold. In itself, the effort may not seem so remarkable, except that Jennifer was only in... View Details
- Profile
Phoebe Peronto
candy store. You can experiment—that’s encouraged.” Making more leaps of faith Eventually, Phoebe felt “ready for a new leap to really push myself. I really enjoy being challenged and being comfortable with discomfort.” She wanted to do... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- Profile
Fangfang Wang
Fangfang introduced data-driven analytics and consultative selling techniques to the company. Recognizing chocolate’s value as a high-margin product, she led initiatives to drive demand, including partnerships with other candy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
CHIP AND DAN HEATH: What makes messages memorable? Photo COURTESY THE HEATH FAMILY Everyone “knows” that strangers have tampered with children’s candy on Halloween. But actual examples of this are hard to come by. It is, however, an idea... View Details
- Profile
Yaping Wang
were not sufficient "to take me beyond candy to look at health care and biotechnology. I knew that business school could help me make the transition." On a personal level, taking the time to pursue her deepest potential had a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
recently launched a new chain called "FAO Schweetz," which Eyler describes as "the world's first fully animated candy store." By 1999, he says, the company will begin expanding to key capitals around the world. It's a tall order. But no... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
become more accessible and bite-sized, like 2048 and Candy Crush Saga. They won’t have a tutorial or instructions. They’re going to fit into your life and not ask much of you. They’ll also give back more. I’m hopeful that if you play our... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Endline’s candy dreams. Previous Next Safe water for millions Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) Founder, S’well Bottle “My dream with S’well is to allow those without options to be provided clean drinking water, while at the same time encourage... View Details
- Profile
David A. Frankel
for $500,000 to $2 million.” For Frankel, the decision to stay at HBS proved to be a watershed. “I was a kid in a candy store,” he said. Ironically, up to this point, he had not given up on starting another venture. But the transformation... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
it a week in advance rather than a day in advance of delivery. Indeed, the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of healthy items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of unhealthy items (like candy bars) the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
could choose either an organic or a nonorganic option—a carton of milk, for example. In monitoring what they called "indulgent" purchases, the researchers looked at sugary items like ice cream and candy bars, as well as salty... View Details