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  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

and two laboratory experiments in food service settings suggest that transparency that 1) allows customers to observe operational processes (process transparency) and 2) allows employees to observe customers (customer transparency) not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing

By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; International Finance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Markets; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; United States
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  • 26 Aug 2020
  • News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how we think about helping people... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

for hiring, the concept of a slot is absent from virtually all of economics. Macroeconomic studies of vacancies and search come closest, but the implications of slot-based hiring for individual worker outcomes has not been analyzed in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist

nostalgic: to find and fund the best water entrepreneurs in the world. “The water industry spends $3.6 trillion per year in infrastructure, waste water, irrigation and food production, plumbing and industrial needs as well as chip... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

engaging in a pre-eating ritual over a 5-day period helped participants reduce calorie intake (Experiment 1). Pairing a ritual with healthy eating behavior increased the likelihood of choosing healthy food in a subsequent decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Innovation as P&G’s Key

markets targeted, and revenue and profitability projections. “The tool automatically brings to the top of the list individual projects that need attention,” the book states. By Lafley’s count, P&G has created seventeen disruptive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

Harvard Business School Case 514-067 India's Amul: Keeping up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947, eight months before India's independence from British rule, and owned by over three million farmers in the state of Gujarat. It is India's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Over just a few months, the United States stock market plunged almost 20 percent—then in one day rebounded a record 1,000 points. 2018 seemed just that kind of year in business: restless, surging, full of surprises. Big-name retailers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

intensity fuel of the future. Integrated Dynamics - Jake Sweed (MBA 2024), Henry Markarian, Niranjan Kulkarni - Turning food waste into green hydrogen using hyperthermophile archaea. Latent - Rourke Pattullo (MBA 2025), Tom Walkinshaw... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Leading Boston and Beyond

and marketing initiative for the program, as well as working on broadening the Mayor’s overall social media strategy. Following his fellowship, Koh went to work at the Huffington Post, but his heart remained in Boston City Hall. “This... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • October 2016 (Revised November 2016)
  • Case

DO & CO: Gourmet Entertainment

By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
This case is about a global catering, restaurant, and hospitality company, DO & CO, growing geographically with its existing businesses while also adding new brands to its portfolio. The company had $1 billion in revenues in 2015 from its three divisions: airline... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; International Expansion; Operational Constraints; Three-dimensional Growth; Value-added Approach; Brand Acquisition; Airline Catering; Airline Industry; Event Catering; Hospitality; Profitable Growth; Team Management; Competition; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Strategy; Operations; Brands and Branding; Value Creation; Globalized Firms and Management; Expansion; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and the 1984 Union... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

inefficient local industries, including construction and food processing, they will not become competitive. The traditional Japanese government approach has been to believe that if, say, the chemical industry was ailing, it should step in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

curve in which the central bank can provide market participants with forward guidance on both future short rates and on future Quantitative Easing (QE) operations, which affect bond supply. Forward guidance on short rates works through... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average over the period... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace