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- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
Among them is Coca Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca Cola bottling company in Mexico and Latin America. They have been bootstrapping the company’s development, leveraging company excitement to gain design input. “Water can translate to a... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life
City in the late 1970s. At the time, there was no shortage of upstart brands competing for the dollars of young, health-conscious New Yorkers, but Snapple stood out from the rest by virtue of an endearing artlessness. The labels on its View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day
attached to my best friend but couldn’t articulate physical and romantic attraction towards him. I was scared of facing myself so I bottled all these thoughts deep down. In 2019, when he started dating his now wife, it felt wrong. I... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
hold six. No matter that your favorite craft beer store permits you buy bottles one at a time. Chances are you’d still buy six, just to fill all six spaces in the box. “People really don’t like to leave things incomplete,” says Kate... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
Marketers can make a bottle of sugar water look like golden elixir. Can health advocates sour the taste for consumers? (SteveDF) San Francisco is in a three-year battle with the American Beverage Industry over whether soda companies can... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
sealing off Sonoma-Cutrer's green bottles are presampled to ensure that they will not taint the wine's final flavor. This investment of tender loving care has paid off: in an annual survey published in Wine & Spirits magazine,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Three dollars in cash, six changes of clothing, five bottles of rum, and a box of cigars. These were the items that belonged to 12-year-old Carlos Saladrigas when he arrived in Miami in 1961. His parents chose the risk of sending their... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
events. For example, at Commencement & Reunions we utilize water stations for guests to reduce bottled water plastic waste; donate leftover food to Food for Free; provide waste sorting stations to divert waste into the compost (which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
Caribbean-inspired appetizers and entrées. Franyo meets daily with the Boatyard’s chef and general manager, Tammy Reece, to go over the menu and discuss management issues, then puts in his time “picking up cigarette butts and bottle caps”... View Details
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
larger audience," Deshpandé says. Creating Value "Branding Yoga" is one of five branding cases Deshpandé uses in his classes to explore how companies create brands that are differentiated and worthy of a price premium. In addition to yoga, he cites the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
environment to drive innovation." Out of that commitment came SK-II, a skin care product that sells for about $120 a bottle and has moved them into a whole new range. Now this prestige line is being rolled out globally. So the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
a beginning, a middle, and a finish. Their ready-to-drink cocktails are naturally low in sugar and calories (less than 2 grams and 35 calories). They are bottled and labeled with a sense of sophistication that would feel right at home on... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
bottle of Veuve Clicquot Rose Champagne, courtesy of Kay.) The winning teams distinguished themselves, Brown explained, not only by considering the aesthetic tastes and aspirations of their customer base, but also by coming up with truly... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
indigenizing inputs and modernizing bottling operations, and upgraded logistics and distribution, especially rurally. And the official boundaries between the U.S. and international organizations have been restored-recognizing the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
the bottling processes by 20x, at least. Both of these actions reduced variable expenses for these companies and therefore improved gross margins. Both of these actions are good examples of software and process changes that reduce... View Details
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By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
Sarah Kauss Sarah Kauss In a recent episode of NPR’s How I Built This, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) discussed the formation of the reusable water bottle company S’well. The key revelation, she notes, came during a hike in 2009 with her mother,... View Details
Roger A. Enrico
Enrico helped to transform PepsiCo through a number of major initiatives including the spin-off of its fast food restaurant chains (Tricon), the acquisition of Tropicana, and the initial public offering of its bottling business. Through... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Edmund D. Libbey
Using Mike Owens’ invention for blowing glass bottles, Libbey revolutionized the glass industry. Libbey’s adept commercialization of this invention was the most innovative contribution to the glass industry since the original art of glass blowing. The company... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
2050 our oceans will contain more of it by weight than fish. Single-use petroleum-based plastics contaminate our water, pollute our land, and contribute to global warming. And given current rates of production and consumption—1 million plastic View Details