industrial goods - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

is just one of many dilemmas that can incite insomnia in a sharing-economy platform provider. There’s also the threat of disintermediation between producers and consumers; the fear of trying to compete in a winner-take-all market; and the challenge of attracting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Climate Action): “Find something you really love and then get good at it, really specialized. That specialized could either be in a subject matter - you could be an expert in water, methane, or lots of other area - or you could be a... View Details

Alumni WDYDWYD

Mary Dell Harrington

industry is exciting, deeply satisfying, and a logical career extension from NBC, Discovery, and Lifetime Television – where I worked for twenty years post-MBA. Launching a blog and relaunching my career – after a ten year hiatus – has... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

the finance industry has been that "they should move from Wall Street to Seventh Avenue and be with the rest of the fashion industry." "We're never going back to the slow and lazy times," he said. From Winner To Loser... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

28 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1

average attendance at on-campus presentations is 20 students. The Career & Professional Development staff coaches students to understand their personal career criteria in order to focus their job search on industries, functions, and work environments that would be... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

22 Aug 2018
Blog Post

MBA Students Reflect on Their Summer Internships

location or further your pre-HBS industry experience. As summer winds down and our second-year MBA students are preparing to come back to class, we wanted to take the opportunity to share reflections from the Class of 2019's internship... View Details

J. Peter Grace

1950 to 55% in 1977 as the company became the fifth largest producer of chemicals in the U.S. Grace grew his company into a diversified industrial complex including restaurants, sporting good stores, and... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

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Reilly Kiernan Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results Reflections from SECON 2017: What's the Bottom Line? Reilly Kiernan 13 Apr 2017 Last... View Details

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Donella Rapier Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results SEI25 Series: Donella Rapier (MBA 1992), President and CEO, BRAC USA Donella Rapier 28... View Details

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Andrea Frederick Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results HBS Student Club Spotlight: Consulting for Impact Andrea Frederick Francie Alexandre 25... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Spring Training for Startups

April was a good month for startups at HBS, with three events connecting expert entrepreneurs with student and alumni founders. The HBS Rock 100 Entrepreneurs' Summit featured conversations with industry... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

in part, perhaps, to its tough, unglamorous realities. “Anyone who does a good job in the food industry and makes money works really, really hard,” says Keith Garner, owner of Pasta Cuisine, a restaurant and... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

June 2024 (Revised October 2024)
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Equifruit

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Annelena Lobb

Jennie Coleman, president of Fairtrade banana company Equifruit, considered how best to position her firm and brand to increase sales of Fairtrade bananas in the U.S. and Canada. She saw her biggest challenge as convincing retailers that consumers would be OK spending... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Goods and Commodities; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Sales; Social Enterprise; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Ecuador; Guatemala; Canada; United States

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14 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professors James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger literally wrote the book on service industry management with The Service Profit Chain. Now the trio is back with What Great... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Leonard A. Schlesinger; Retail

01 Feb 2002
News

If You're #1, Watch Out

required to achieve better and better results. When the product the customers use isn't good enough, its architecture is proprietary and its manufacturers make money. When it's more than good enough, its... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

cultural landscape after the Civil War. By the 1860s, the railroad industry had created a national network for the manufacture and distribution of industrial and consumer goods... View Details

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

mental models of what an industry is or should be, and so you're likely to see much more creativity in their definition, if you will, of a new market. It's extremely difficult to have enough self-awareness as a company to understand how... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

consumer. "Managers can't expect customer information to represent a free good forever," explains Rayport. "Eventually, customers will want a piece of the value companies derive from information collected about themselves." But the... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

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