Food Value Chain - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

Shop Talk, Different Avenues

disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; shopping; e-commerce; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

market value of all CEOs is driven by companies hiring leadership from the outside rather than promoting it from within. In other words, there is a market premium paid for outside hires. Hiring from outside often occurs either in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

studying markets with tendencies toward "early" hiring. Our data make clear that the movement of the clerkship market back to the third year of law school is highly valued by judges, but we also find that a strong majority of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

problem. Despite that, although we all share this resource, we don’t respect its value and its use. Everybody believes unlimited access to water is their God-given right, and that plays out in its use and abuse.” There is a nexus of food,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

place to study the misery of joblessness and the value of work, but not to Reshmaan N. Hussam, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. After reading about the atrocities, she visited the camp in December... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

address the diverse values and interests of their companies' stakeholders. Publisher's link: http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/productdetail.kmod?productid=4059 May 2015 Environmentally Responsible Supply View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

Show Hide Details Concepts DTC Brands: Fad or Disruption? DTC Brands: Innovations and Challenges, Part I DTC Brands: Innovations and Challenges, Part II Incumbent Responses Featured Exercises Evaluate innovations and challenges faced by DTC and legacy brands across the... View Details

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14189 Cross-Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales and Operations Planning (revised) Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel H. Watson Abstract In most organizations, supply View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

my Vietnamese heritage, and it’s how I live my life. Jashin Lin (MBA 2023) I take great pride in my Asian identity and I aim to embody our culture’s values of dedication, grit, and collectivism. We believe that actions speak louder than... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Ink

brand values (the employees’ work environment embodies the organization—beanbag chairs in the conference room and walls full of Post-its); and environment and sustainability (a less-is-more mentality and environmentally conscious... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Steven Rogers

the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

higher quality products Global status—the idea that transnational brands confer an elite status on the buyer Country-of-origin quality—the idea that "a food chain" of production means that higher-quality goods are created in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

reviews. Third, chain restaurants-which benefit less from Yelp-are also less likely to commit review fraud. Fourth, when restaurants face increased competition, they become more likely to receive unfavorable fake reviews. Using a separate... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

particular challenge the company faced was about selling its line of prestigious, professional beauty tools to chain drugstores—risking dilution of the brand, losing existing core customers, and taking on financial commitments way beyond... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

much better. In this article, professor and Balanced Scorecard guru Robert S. Kaplan introduces BSC Customer Profitability Metrics. From Balanced Scorecard Report. Marketing Your Way Through a Recession Published: March 3, 2008 In a recession, consumers become View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

Future (Currency/Doubleday), focuses on share of customer: Using the insights about what makes your most loyal customers different to maximize the value of those relationships. By the end of the decade, many marketers had come to believe... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

November 2005 (Revised October 2012)
Case

The Auction for Burger King (A)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and James Quinn

Paul Walsh, CEO of Diageo, must evaluate bids received in an auction of the Burger King restaurant unit. Describes how Diageo came to own Burger King, the attempts to turn the unit around, the strategic reasons for its sale, the auction process, and various bidders'... View Details