Food Production - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2014
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chefs. The restaurant was also leading the new Nordic food movement, a movement focused on rediscovering Nordic cuisine and ingredients, which had helped increase the popularity of Danish cuisine. Since 2013 Noma had a new investor, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

"exhortation." He sees many of these things in each of several organizations—including Whole Foods Markets, W. L. Gore, and Google—that he examines in some depth. These organizations share some things in common. All are operated... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

22 May 2012
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office-but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2013
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embeddedness of the new technologies posed significant entrepreneurial challenges. The best equipped to overcome these challenges were often entrepreneurs based in minorities who held significant advantages in capital-raising and trust levels. By the interwar years,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Mar 2011
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http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-069.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAccounting for the iPhone at Apple Inc. Francois Brochet, Krishna G. Palepu, and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 111-003 Apple initially recognized revenue associated with its iPhone... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2007
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a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2015
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working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49300 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-095 Evans Food In April 2014, Hector Guerra (GMP 16) was discussing his company's dilemma with his living... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Feb 2017
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these questions: Should he continue to push forward with a change agenda? Or should the organization pause and catch its breath? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-045 Jollibee View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

trade and production for the Ministry of Agriculture, has won a WTO sugar decision for Brazil against the EU sugar policies. This case analyzes what this decision will mean to world food policies, especially... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2014
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life-saving health products and services, whether to distribute them for free, or whether to give additional incentives for individuals to use them. This note describes the latest, cutting-edge research on how pricing influences the end... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

04 Dec 2007
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Pisano and David J. Teece Periodical:California Management Review 50, no. 1 (fall 2007): 278-296 Abstract Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators, customers, suppliers, and other... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

food is good.” You've got a lot of rankings out there that are looking at seemingly pretty unimportant things like the taste of the food but maybe to that end consumer that's a really important element.... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

out to do something fun for themselves and ended up creating a production that continues to attract a huge following. Kraus uses Blue Man Group as an example of finding your "flow"—experiencing such enjoyment from an activity that you... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

marketed its products as family food, targeting its messages to children as well as adults. Expanding slowly also gave Pujals the chance to work out and test his business model. He was able to determine exactly what sort of investments he... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

sales tax can be complicated: if a customer pays $20 to eat food that costs $35 at a restaurant's menu prices, should the customer pay sales tax on $20 or $35? (In Massachusetts, the Department of Revenue has confirmed the former—though... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

May 25, 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

By: John A. Quelch

Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic... View Details

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31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2011
Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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18 Jan 2021
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How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

solution identification. To help the hungry, he went to SNAP offices to observe and talk to people applying for food benefits. So, the practicalities involve customer discovery and even some prototyping, but with the public, not to them... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

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