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- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
a product or service varies for different customers, different buying units at the same customer, or the same customer in different contexts. What's the value of flowers delivered on—versus the day after—Valentine's Day? Or of one-stop... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
511-059 Entrepreneurial produce packaging firm, which has developed a disruptive technology that keeps fresh produce and flowers fresh for significantly longer, faces strategic growth decisions. CEO Bob Wright must decide how best to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Woodstock in 1969. “Let all our actions, and all our arts, express Yoga,” he told the crowd of some 400,000 people, before leading them in a resounding “om,” a resonant sound considered sacred in yoga texts. In later decades, as the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
replies, "When I see the film clip of gymnast Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 Games receiving her gold medal, I think: 'The flowers left the refrigerator 20 minutes before she got them; the medal left the vault 45 minutes ago and was carried... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
bowl, other years baskets of fruit and preserves. One time Charlotte and I were invited to a dinner at the Faculty Club, that would follow a meeting of the HBS Visiting Committee at which I was to make a presentation. When we accepted, he sent Charlotte a large bouquet... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
vegetables and flowers to top supermarkets in the U.K. and Europe. In 2007, Vegpro's business is threatened by growing consumer concern about the environmental impact of food production and transport, including "food miles". The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
I wouldn't say no, but most of the people we talked to who were experienced coaches had patience—to a point. But, for example, Kanwal Rekhi of Excelan was the first Indian CEO to be listed on NASDAQ. Rekhi, during this period of intense View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
potential expansion opportunities against the growing risks in its production and export markets. With $121 million in 2012 revenues, VP Group has grown rapidly in recent years by expanding its vegetable and flower production beyond Kenya... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
of literally scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated. (Tom McCraw has speculated that this was McArthur’s way of doing penance for his years in the Koerners’ sawmill.) As in all of McArthur’s... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
competition, customers are better off "letting a thousand flowers bloom," fostering fierce competition which results in a de facto standard if users prefer compatibility over individual fit, or a split market, if fit is more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as on-demand View Details
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Exam Free market Capitalism is one of the great achievements of mankind, bringing prosperity and economic freedom to billions of people and contributing to a flowering of individual freedom and possibility that would have been... View Details