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- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
companies, and those that do sell generally part with them very reluctantly, given all that selling represents. We sympathize with a family's emotional attachment to its company. But given how fast industries are changing and other... View Details
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Spice, P&G was a seasoned marketer with strong consumer research, a powerful innovation network, and the world's largest financial commitment to advertising. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311117-PDF-ENG Reckitt Benckiser: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. What-ever the genre (he has also published romance novels, science fiction, and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
OIG to become an integral part of the company's open innovation journey. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-054 The Development of the Markets for Natural, Organic, and Health View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
is that participants write up their own case studies—an opportunity usually reserved for faculty. Some of the 18 cases published or in development in the "The Great East Japan Earthquake" series include reports on Google Japan and Yahoo!; Oisix, an online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
straightforward equation: climate instability exacerbates the risk of armed conflict around the world. Examples are happening around the world every day. They include mass migration as food and water resources literally dry up; mass death... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
time-consuming because customer needs are often complex, subtle, and fast changing. Frequently, customers don't fully understand their needs until they try out prototypes to explore exactly what does, and doesn't, work (referred to as... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Heinz, of the famous food company; Marshall Field, the Chicago retailer; Estée Lauder, who created one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world; Howard Schultz, of Starbucks Coffee Company; and Michael Dell, of Dell Computer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
initial caution, growth when it came was both fast and steady. When he sold the company in 1999 to the Spanish food conglomerate Campofrio, TelePizza spanned six countries with more than 600 outlets selling... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
environmental department. At the end of his term, Coady was appointed to lead the U.S. delegation for the creation and implementation of the Global Environmental Facility, to finance projects in biodiversity, climate change, and food... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
therapies has become a reality, as have immunotherapies that induce or suppress a body’s immune response to treat disease. Yet, this relatively swift progress has not been fast enough for millions of other patients who still lack... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
create a market." But those looking for these activities on a much grander scale must fast forward about a hundred years to the coming of the railroad and the advent of the Second Industrial Revolution. Between 1870 and 1920 alone,... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
electrical current, they pressed the lever over and over again, hundreds of times per hour, foregoing food or sleep, until many of them dropped dead from exhaustion. Further research found pleasure centers exist in human brains, too.... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
of fast food. Easterbrook, who had been a longtime McDonald’s branding executive from the UK, was tapped to take over as CEO. The case cites an interview with a former colleague, Richard Robinson, saying, “Steve knows every inch of how... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
interview with NBC-10 Boston, noted the potential economic impacts of the invasion of Ukraine. "We will see it in fuels, natural gas, gasoline, also in food prices," Shih told the channel, noting that natural gas is also used to make... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
the same water use, et cetera. So leafy greens are great, but if you’re thinking about how to supply food for the 9 billion, then you’re really, really focusing more on other protein sources and other kinds of plant-based sources.” This... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
virus will give us the answers.” Will contracting the disease provide immunity? How long will immunity last? When will a successful vaccine be widely available? What will be an acceptable vaccine trial? How fast will the virus mutate?... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
brands, forever on the lookout for new opportunities; home life has become an act of managing supply chains, outsourcing housecleaning, childcare, and even grocery shopping to others; and churches market themselves like fast View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
the partner type and private consumption. We estimate our model using the 2013 "Living Costs and Food Survey" database. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54695 forthcoming The Economics of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman