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  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

because I want them to keep giving me the best service they can deliver in exchange for my commitment to fly them whenever I can. Consumers can achieve anonymity today by declining to join supermarket frequent shopper programs, but by so... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

products accessible, installing checkout counters, and expanding product selection by tapping into national branding. Saunders, in essence, built the prototype of today's supermarket long before it became commonplace. At the other end of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources like HMOs and pharmacies. Genzyme: Mara Aspinall (photo: courtesy Genzyme) A Healthy Controversy All this "cross-pollination"—whether... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

a bind: Would they have to compromise on their social purpose and use plastic? Or could they come up with a different solution? Team members had an idea: What if they sold their produce to supermarkets unpackaged, and View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

industry. Buyer power appears to be higher in the Old World. Consumers are more sophisticated and somewhat more price sensitive in the Old World than in the New World. More sales occur through supermarkets and other off-premise locations... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

to supermarket deli departments. In 2008, he was convinced that the time was right to make a big push in the fresh food area to satisfy consumers that were demanding more convenient, natural, good-tasting, and locally-grown foods. Taylor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-074 Whole Foods Under Amazon In August 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Whole Foods was struggling with high costs and faced growing competition from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

fulfillment of basic needs, such as Consumer Product Goods and apparel basics, is growing. With customers increasingly ordering these and other products online, potential shoppers have fewer reasons to leave their homes, and the clothing store collocated with the View Details
Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
  • 03 Sep 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

headed? If so, is the question of who should choose your boss becoming "a little irrelevant"? What do you think? Original Article Recent events surrounding the walkout of many of the 25,000 employees at Market Basket, a Massachusetts-based View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage
  • 05 Jun 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

increasing their value. Denise Rickman grabs a magazine from the rack while in the supermarket checkout lane. Imran Jafar rides his scooter to work, enjoying the benefits of close-to-the-road transportation, exercise, and what sounds a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Jul 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

for the private sector's consumer-driven experiences with lower-income populations, the experience of Whole Foods, a supermarket chain, is instructive. As of 2004, its employees, primarily blue collar, have saved $14 million in health... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
  • 07 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

Tesco shops were replacing independent businesses. "What the politicians did not anticipate was that these large supermarket chains were going to come in anyway, regardless of regulations," Sadun says. "They had reached a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 21 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

loyalty programs, and it is possible to get a good sample from them. We sampled one supermarket store and one supermarket chain. Q: I have at least three loyalty shopper cards in my wallet. What percentage... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

money by becoming the supermarket for all your travel needs. That has not been the case in the travel industry. Kost: Why is that? Teixeira: Hotels focus on customers from the time they enter their doors to when they leave. Airlines focus... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

company in the global animal health industry through innovative technology, creative marketing, and strong branding. Sel-Plex, a proprietary Alltech product, had shown important health benefits for animals and humans. Although numerous branded selenium-enriched... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2575912   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-011 Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation Muñoz Group, which supplied supermarket... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2019
  • Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology
  • 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Can companies bet that a reunion would last? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/717035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-056 Amazon Buys Whole Foods The June 2017 news that e-commerce giant Amazon was paying $13.7 billion for organic View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

supermarket for "dolphin-safe" tuna, so Star-Kist decided to fish in safer waters and raised prices accordingly. In reality, even the most well-meaning customers didn't want to shell out more money for a can of tuna even if it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

bags" participants were asked to imagine approaching a supermarket to do their grocery shopping with their own bags. The "without bags" group received nearly identical instructions, but nothing about bags was mentioned. All... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
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