restaurant - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

restaurants in the LA area and sold frozen dumplings and other Korean foods in Costco across the U.S., and KCON.tv, a digital media channel, were experiencing commercial success in the U.S. market. But at the same time, there was some... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

been almost a year and a half since Aydin had agreed to sell the company's shares to Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based global leader in online and mobile food ordering, for $589 million. In 2016, the company had grown to include more than 13,000 member View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

few decades, what were some of the key factors in China’s economic rise? A: In the 1980s, Deng Xiaoping’s establishment of the free trade zones began the transformation of China’s state-run economy. In the 1990s, you saw a significant easing of restrictions on... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

PMD, it's OPM for me. Refrain: OPM (OPM), Harvard Square (Harvard Square). You'll learn with all the smartest teachers there. Come on down to Cambridge to spend a week or three. AMP, PMD, it's OPM for me. OPM 34. Wasabi! (from a case about a Japanese View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

It’s an almost unfathomable amount of daily production, but Lo puts it in perspective. “A single fast-food restaurant chain uses 300 million pounds a year of leafy greens alone,” she says. “A one-ton-a-day farm produces 740,000 pounds a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

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

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

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

26 Jan 2016
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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

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Past Issues - Alumni

restaurant industry with Senior Lecturer Lena Goldberg and Visiting Lecturer Michael Kaufman Prognosis Professor Robert S. Huckman and Peter Slavin, president of Massachusetts General Hospital, on how the pandemic will transform the... View Details

19 Dec 2024
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The Musts of 2024

gender balance in this. He said he will go into a room, a restaurant for example, and he'll look around and he'll say he sees a picture of men just talking to the women in the room and he looks at the women and they're bored as hell and... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

valuable insights that leaders require to evolve their organizations and navigate the values-driven world we live in. Dishoom: The first ever cookbook from the much-loved Indian restaurant by Shamil Thakrar (MBA 2001), Kavi Thakrar, and... View Details

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

disproportionately to Quick Serve Restaurants [QSRs]) and filling in their non-perishable needs (household items, canned goods, health and beauty care) on separate store-based trips. These non-perishable trips are a place where eCommerce... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Restaurant Industry General Management, Entrepreneurial Management Michael S. Kaufman , Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management Robert... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect

away,” says Todd Mulder, food services general manager for Restaurant Associates, the hospitality firm that manages all campus food operations. “They are impressed that you can get sushi made to order,” in addition to soups, sandwiches, a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

whenever you're going to build something that has never been built before. It's one thing to know exactly how something can work and to build the tenth franchise, or the hundredth, or the thousandth franchise restaurant under a model.... View Details

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

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 and... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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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

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

others. Material purchases are less satisfying than buying experiences like taking a trip or attending a show, Norton’s research shows. Even though vacations and restaurant outings may not be in the cards right now, we can still spend... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209042 elBulli: The Taste of Innovation Harvard Business School Case 509-015 Ferran Adriá, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world... View Details