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- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
largely by scale alone." Several respondents offered an explanation for these phenomena. Typical was Rahul Sharma's comment: " . . . these high executive compensation packages are . . . necessitated by the reduced 'lifespans' of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
look and design to inspire a positive reaction. By the holiday season in 2014, Be Mixed launched its first major production run and is currently being sold in 17 different food stores in the New York City area. The pair also unveiled a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
wouldn’t tell: “It’s as jealously guarded as the Coke formula.”) A memorable case-method teacher, Schlesinger acknowledges, “The vast majority of the issues I confront are not organized into the neat 80-minute packages we discussed at... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
decision is made thinking about the entire supply chain—the components work together and reinforce one another. Too often, I find that retailers make decisions regarding product variety, promotion, and packaging with no regard for what... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
I approached him, and he picked up the telephone and called a former student at General Foods who agreed to hire me for the summer. That resulted in my eventually working there full-time, and it launched my marketing career. The other... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
company’s nascent sales function as Augmedix grows. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817048-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-053 Susan Cassidy at Bertram Gilman International In 2016, Susan Cassidy, VP of sales and marketing for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
ranging from minor modifications to major new innovations. The user-friendly tools, often integrated into a package we call a "tool kit for customer innovation," deploy new technologies like computer simulation and rapid... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his responsibilities to include subsidiary... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Steve Easterbrook, was named president and CEO, and the turnaround was on. Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) had left Kraft Foods in September 2015, when he connected with Easterbrook, who was looking for someone to help him fine-tune his... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
problem the product or service should be designed to solve. For example, when Walt Disney was plotting out Disneyland in the late 1940s, he didn't concern himself at first with typical amusement park issues like how many rides to build, how much parking to provide, or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
product that didn’t do well, or it could be something that the new product replaced. Or maybe it’s just a package or labeling change. These special buys, or closeouts, are about 50 percent of our products. Around 95 percent of what we buy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to the automakers. They are at the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Overall, those who accepted smaller portions did not compensate by ordering more calories in their entrées, and the total calories served to them were, on average, reduced by more than 200. We also found that accepting the downsizing offer did not change the amount of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
nutrition, health, and wellness (NHW) company in the world. Over the next 13 years, the NHW strategy guided strategic decisions and choices at Nestlé including merger and acquisition choices, strategies for improving products, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
play out, consumers, as usual, are doing their own thing. According to an October 2014 comScore survey, 24 percent of millennials do not subscribe to a pay-TV package at all (13 percent were cord-cutters, 11 percent were “cord-nevers”);... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
such as Photoshop and Acrobat to a digital marketing and digital media company. In May 2013, the company decided to stop selling its software as a package in favor of Creative Cloud where consumers paid a monthly subscription fee. Within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
in formulating environmental regulations in three areas: automotive emissions for health related (criteria) pollutants, packaging waste, and global climate change. Automotive emissions are relatively centralised in both political systems.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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