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- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
2023), Luis F Gutierrez (MBA 2023), Seyfihan Usarer (MBA 2023)Our vision is to build a digital marketplace that connects Farmers directly with Restaurants, enabling farmers to earn higher profits by disrupting existing complex supply chains and giving View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
shuttered for the season in late October. Not only were they not shuttered, every single parking spot had an oil truck in it. “I ran into this high school classmate of mine who—like a lot of my classmates in my little class of 34—stayed in the area. She had this little... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Describes TelePizza, Spain's leading chain of pizza restaurants and delivery services. TelePizza has experienced rapid growth to 500 stores since its creation in 1987. The company went public on the Spanish stock market in late 1996.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
If you don’t fix it, you’re going to lose the trust. If you couldn’t go into a restaurant and trust the fact that the food had been prepared right. And that’s because there’s laws and regulations that come in there. We see View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
means for them (Do I need to take an umbrella? How many diners will my restaurant get tomorrow? Should I close the airport ramp today and prepare for de-icing?). What part of your role is different from what you imagined it might be? The... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food drive-thru View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
tried installing video terminals in one of its restaurants to allow patrons to place their own orders. Younger customers loved them, but older people preferred to talk with human attendants. I recently tested an on-line banking system and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
creating peer-to-peer recognition programs in which employees are provided monthly reward points that they can give away to colleagues for work-related wins. Employees who earn a certain number of points can redeem them for various perks, such as a View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
now going to reward you with a trip to One if By Land, Two if By Sea, the most glamorous restaurant in Manhattan. And what I learned from it is never assume that what the bosses have done is right just because they're the bosses. My name... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
the like. Right now, a developer must accept a dramatically reduced price for that kind of land. But PRT could connect outlying buildings directly to a subway platform and a restaurant district. A PRT-connected outlying building could be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
school and for a lot of other places.” Joe O’Donnell (MBA ’71) echoes Menino’s comments. “I was in the restaurant business a while back,” he says modestly. (O’Donnell’s Boston Concessions, a billion-dollar business empire, already... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
up premiums for everyone else,” Edelman says. “As an ordinary consumer, your rates will go up whether or not you ever use Uber yourself.” (In related research, Edelman argues that online travel intermediaries like Expedia end up inflating costs for consumers, as do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
one’s employees. That’s pretty good!” That classmate, David Karam, who operates 135 Wendy’s restaurant franchises in five states, says of Navasky, “Vic really ventured into the lion’s den at OPM — we were a pretty conservative bunch. But... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
matching estimations, and regression discontinuity designs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50067 Harvard Business School Case 315-049 Cravia: An Entrepreneurial Endeavor in Dubai Walid Hajj (HBS '95), CEO of Dubai-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509050 Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1) Harvard Business School Case 109-013 Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
ahead of him—in a recent election, he almost beat a heavily entrenched incumbent. Tony is a veteran, with a Silver Star for bravery in Korea, and an entrepreneur. With his good friend Max, another attorney, he has started a law firm and made large investments in a... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
well-functioning business model"), through capability (what it takes to execute a plan and gain access to needed resources, owned or not, over time), to scalability ("These students are not small-time operators, aiming to run the best View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Kristen Krzyzewski, MBA 1997 Kim Moore, MBA 1997 Finale is a full-service, upscale restaurant concept serving desserts and beverages (coffee, tea, wine, and spirits). The business also includes a retail store featuring take-out desserts... View Details