Fast Food - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

05 May 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

culture at home and American culture at school: Speech class: Learning to articulate an opinion in front of others, like why hot dogs are the superior cafeteria food in front of 30 campers. Goal setting: Taking ownership of your... 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

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID... View Details

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

three years of fast food experience. By contrast, Torres continues, incumbent C-level exes are “overly focused on internal issues and opt to invest in familiar technologies rather than taking bold risks.”... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

emissions. Without establishing the availability of much cheaper (coal-competitive) zero-carbon alternatives within the next 10 years, I just don't think "the world" can do enough, fast enough to keep cumulative CO2 emissions below the... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

amazing what they were able to do with market-based economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise in green consumerism and public... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

company created within the last five years that produces the number one flat-panel TV brand in the U.S., beating Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic. It created a brand and financed itself to grow fast despite a limited number of staff—because... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

almost all other products and services. This was a match of ambition with capability that can be replicated in other fast growing, semi-informal cities in the developing world. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAcademia Barilla Harvard Business School Case 507-001 Barilla, the world's largest pasta company, has introduced a new high-quality, high-priced product line that features a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

companies like TiVo have grown popular with TV watchers in part because of the ability to fast forward through ads—enabling the decoupling of TV shows from commercials. To counter that threat, some TV programmers have increased product... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

concept. Built with authentic interiors and fixtures imported from Japan, the restaurants featured a working chef at every table, flamboyantly preparing and grilling familiar American foods such as shrimp, beef, and chicken ("No... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

prices. Incomes were soaring, and by some measures about 1,000 new cars were being added to Jakarta streets every day. Not long after his graduation in 2011, Makarim joined Germany-based e-commerce investment firm Rocket Internet as its Indonesia head. There he learned... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Mar 2005
News

Answering the Call

soon developed a chain of restaurants based on a novel concept. Built with authentic interiors and fixtures imported from Japan, the restaurants featured a working chef at every table, flamboyantly preparing and grilling familiar American View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

non but instead rely on a synthesis of many findings into a consistent, but not definitive, diagnosis. Lagace: How do crowdsourcing contests fit in or not with the usual pace of innovation in medicine or oncology in particular? LISH team: The pace is quite View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

the Silicon Valley model of moving fast and breaking things—an early Mark Zuckerberg mantra—just doesn’t work. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Remember what Alex said in episode one about how these challenges shape frontier... View Details

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

results will be affected by (a) when the inspection occurs within an inspector’s daily schedule and (b) the inspection outcomes of the inspector’s prior inspected establishment. Analyzing thousands of food safety inspections, we find that... View Details