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- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Banking on Cheese Credem, an Italian regional bank, grants loans to Parmigiano Reggiano producers and holds the cheese as collateral in its own warehouse during the maturation process, essentially replacing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Virtual Networking Tips from HBS Career Coaches
When you think of networking, the image that may come to mind first is shaking hands and filling up a small plate with cheese and crackers at a networking event. For some, this type of networking comes naturally. For others, networking of... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
people don't know China has ham at all. And I came from the other end. Before HBS, I didn't know the world had ham, but Yunnan. So I always thought Yunnan was the ham country. Yet, after I got to HBS, they gave me this ham and cheese... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
and split their time between two countries, slowly mastering a new language and making friends with the locals over long meals. Van Sickle makes wry observations on France, like the power of cheese to sway elections, the right and wrong... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
cheese no longer comes packaged with a Day-Glo orange powder, thanks to a pledge to stop using artificial dyes (Yellow 5 and Yellow 6) in the product. “Due to consumer protests against synthetic colors, the standardization of color moved... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
playing Latin percussion, and scoping out Boston's mac and cheese scene. PRIDE was a huge factor in my decision to attend HBS. In earlier chapters of my life when I moved to a new city or started a new job, affinity groups were where I... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
mayonnaise, a container of mustard, cold cuts, processed cheese spread (I'm from Philly, and we love Whiz), and pickles. Now imagine finding sawdust in the pickles, sand in the mustard, and so on. That quite literally was the situation in... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
supermarkets over independent shops and the fact that processed tomatoes were considered a commodity, fierce competition for miniscule profits was the norm. So Francesco decided to close Mutti's side businesses in cheese and cattle and... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute
productive, I’ve learned it’s as important to take a pause. Sit on the floor and read a book when she brings you one while you’re answering emails. Take a break and let her feed you her cheese crackers that were already in her mouth. When... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
provocative counterpoint to the mega-hit book Who Moved My Cheese?, in which mice are forced to deal with change in their environment (a maze) because their cheese keeps disappearing. The moral seems to be, if you want to survive, adapt.... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Helper's brand management team resulted in two potential solutions: (1) to reduce production costs through the simplification of the Hamburger Helper line by reducing the complexity of the product and eliminating the less successful SKUs. Did the consumer really value... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
match, “The Big Durian” after the sweet Southeast Asian fruit that emits such an overwhelming stench of blue cheese and sweaty gym clothes that it is banned by most airlines and hotels. The key to making life in Jakarta a little easier is... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
without cannibalizing its own market share or diluting the sterling brand of the parent airline. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-060 The Cheese and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Leprino Foods is another, converting 2.3 million pounds of milk into cheese every day. Just down the road, Lambert’s parents, Mary and Chris, and her brother, Stratton, run Badger Creek Farm and Quail Ridge Dairy, home to some 6,000... View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
fascinating dilemma in marketing. Khaire: You see that a lot with food. If you've never eaten pizza in Italy it's a rude shock when you go and see this thin thing with barely any cheese on it. If Olive Garden markets itself as authentic... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
they have some earthiness. We have a Dijon aioli and then we have a smoked cheddar cheese, it’s from Grafton, which is a really wonderful cheese provider in Southern Vermont. And then we have the Brussels sprouts, which we slice them in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
further this cause across the private and public sectors. Henry Liu - MBA ‘19 I was born and raised in France, where, as a child, I only thought of myself as French. Despite living in a homogeneous population, I never once questioned my worship of Zizou and Thierry... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
best-selling business fable, Who Moved My Cheese? offered its answer to the question: accept that change is inevitable and beyond your control, don't waste your time wondering why things are the way they are, keep your head down, and start looking for the cheese. I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
another that failed, followed by another that managed to limp along without much success. At age 60 I started my seventh venture, Uplands Cheese Inc., a manufacturing business that has been very successful, meeting all my goals for it and... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios