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- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
their flowers to have more natural greenery so they have more control over the final appearance of mixed bouquets. Van den Ende Rozen sells 65% of their flowers directly to customers such as grocers and convenience stores, while the rest is sent to auction houses like... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
public in 1991. In 1993, the pair acquired St. Louis Bread Company, a 19-store chain of eat-in cafés based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving freshly baked artisanal bread, sandwiches, soups, and salads. By this point, Au Bon Pain had 250 stores. But Shaich saw a... View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
increased for consumers, and there were more jobs lost in those sectors suffering from higher steel prices than steel jobs created. After Trump’s announcement, the Dow Jones industrial average greeted the news with a drop of more than 1.5... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
private equity partner, was planning its options after seven years of investment. There were four growth levers Mavi could pull, but each involved selecting one growth path while neglecting another. Should the company invest in growth domestically or internationally?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Working PapersDigital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers Authors:John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld Abstract The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2009
- HBS Case
Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu
customers like his product? HBS assistant professor Michael Norton's interest in what motivates seemingly irrational consumer behavior has found a perfect subject in Adrià. To eat at elBulli, customers must navigate a mysterious... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
fact, Apple has done so in a one-side-at-a-time way, by first licensing the music (essentially taking "possession" of the music licenses) before turning to consumers and selling it to them (at a View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
ramp-up production as quickly as possible. While Whitacre and Mulally maximize current sales, taking advantage of this opportunity in the near term is not a long-term strategy. All too often, both GM and Ford have squandered similar opportunities by simply raising... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
for the introduction of health products in developing countries where consumers may be uncertain about product quality, and price subsidies are common policy instruments. Through a field experiment selling... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s.... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
think in any of these cases I launched a revolution, but I think I was helpful. But the pace was so slow, and people were saying that these high deductibles represented consumer-driven health care. It's ridiculous. Consumer markets have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
veteran of the company. “It’s a matter of thinking about how to take all of this wonderful entertainment and news programming and make it available to different consumers at different price points. That’s an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
facilitated by mechanisms of value recombining, temporal distancing, identity marking, and conceptual bridging and a second phase marked by a redefinition of market boundaries and facilitated by mechanisms of competitive set reclaiming and enthusiast View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
consumer demand. Presented with two consumers—one with an annual income of $50,000 and one with an annual income of $120,000—and laptops of different price points, GPT-3.5 drew a reasonable demand curve.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
eyeballs," says Zhu, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. "Content providers are serving advertisers rather than the audience, and consumers with niche preferences will be out of luck because the content they're... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
earner happy to have the job ; and (2) wastage (that) seems to abound in the cavernous stores ." Cheri Thomas cited saturation of its markets, especially in the United States, as a concern, adding that "Walmart's fixation on low View Details