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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
it’s for testing the MVP or to dogfood the brand, no excuses. There’s nothing more compelling than an investor who offers you a cup of coffee made with one of their portfolio company’s new beans or the investor who has a “powered by” one...
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by Julia Austin
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
helped raise equity for two retail food chains, Café Coffee Days and Barista. "It's possible to adapt successful U.S. strategies to India," said Raheja, "but you need a sustainable competitive advantage to survive."...
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- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
awareness, and client care. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/goldman-sachs-anchoring-standards-after-the-financial-crisis/an/514020-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-065 Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.: Taking on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43017 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-018 Keurig and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/814018...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
Brian Kenny: Here's a hypothetical for you. Imagine you're sitting at your favorite coffee shop when a teenager pulls up a chair and asks you to share a bunch of personal information. He wants to know your birthday, what kind of food you...
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- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
receiving $2.56 for a cup of coffee or 26 minutes to catch up with a friend carries more weight, in terms of relationship harm, than being shortchanged or only given 20 minutes. “Between someone who gives $5.99 and someone who gives $5,...
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by Kristen Senz
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
alliances, however, start from the top; sometimes they spring from sheer happenstance. The CARE-Starbucks relationship, for example, began when a CARE regional officer bought a cup of Starbucks coffee and noticed that the two...
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by Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
entirely or, when this is not practical, allow a certain amount of time for personal Internet activity. Employers might also consider allowing regular Internet breaks, in the same way that they offer coffee and cigarette breaks. The...
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by Staff
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
billion for the block of shares. Was the investment in CEMIG worth that price? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707512 Starbucks Coffee Company in the 21st Century Harvard Business School...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
high-fiber grain. Sipping coffee to clear his throat, he adjusted the reading glasses he'd begun using last week and couldn't quite get used to, without shifting attention from the editorial he'd just come across in the business section...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
areas. Nestlé, for example, redesigned its coffee procurement processes, working intensively with small farmers in impoverished areas who were trapped in a cycle of low productivity, poor quality, and environmental degradation. Nestlé...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
magazine publisher. Its flagship Ebony magazine was an iconic coffee table fixture for decades in black households of all classes, making founder John H. Johnson the first African American to make the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
he knows he has to do something—for example, pull staff members off other jobs so they can help check people out, or offer free coffee to everyone who's standing in line." Familiarity with the aggregated survey data, in other words,...
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by Jean Ayers
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
work entirely differently when dealing with people as opposed to objects. "You have to monitor people more than other things," she says. "As an extreme example, I don't have to worry about that coffee cup unless you pick it up and throw...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310060-PDF-ENG Tremblant Capital Group Robin GreenwoodHarvard Business School Case 210-071 Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York-based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
cup of Starbucks coffee. A systematic getting-acquainted process began formally in 1991, when Starbucks was a young, $20 million coffee retailer and CARE was a well-known, forty-five-year old international relief and development...
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by James Austin
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-453 Coffee Wars in India: Starbucks 2015 This case examines the progress made by Starbucks in its first two years of operation in India. Purchase...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
algorithm using Google Streetview), we find that gentrifying neighborhoods tend to have growing numbers of local groceries, cafés, restaurants, and bars, with little evidence of crowd-out of other types of businesses. For example, the entry of a new View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
these questions. Located in Copenhagen, restaurant Noma routinely tops best restaurant lists. That's in large part due to the singular vision of chef-owner René Redzepi, who is obsessive about using local ingredients (only coffee is...
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- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
startup, two MBAs compare the different profiling, matching, and monetization approaches employed by five incumbent dating services: Coffee Meets Bagel, OKCupid, Jiayuan, Dating Ring, and HurryDate. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne