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- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
(In medieval Europe, it was consumed daily because the presence of alcohol made it a safer alternative to water.) And the recipe has remained largely unchanged. To make either low- or no-alcohol beer, one begins with a batch of full-test... View Details
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
consumers . They bought and used mass-produced goods as participants in a national market.” 3 A block of soap previously made at home or bought in bulk at the general store now materialized before the customer as a highly advertised,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
continent is also attracting attention from China, Europe, and the US for its immense mineral resources, human capital and consumer opportunity. While opportunities abound in all sectors, more support is needed on the ground: investment,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
Industrial firms have traditionally had closer sales-marketing ties than consumer goods companies, especially consumer packaged goods companies. Even the traditional industrial... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student
by going beyond quantitative measures to incorporate an emotional dimension. When I spoke with Matt Salzberg he explained the importance of seeking and interpreting feedback. Matt said that Blue Apron was born out of the thesis that every major View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
the global personal care and household product market. Recently, it has added features on a variety of subjects, and expanded coverage in fast-growing markets in Asia and Latin America. CPG Matters A twice-monthly e-zine directed to the View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
country-specific data rather than an adoption of general policy principles from abroad. It implies to identify which policies are truly critical at a given point in time, instead of trying to do everything in parallel. And it implies identifying which View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
urgent systemic changes needed to address climate change. By doing what’s right for people and the planet, pep+ will help position our company as a consistent top market performer by generating stronger, more loyal connections with our View Details
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Omowale Casselle
distribution platform, in high traffic retail locations, that will help consumers trial, discover, and ultimately make more informed choices about their most important purchase decisions in health, wellness, beauty, and household—and now... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
values. Please see the Stata manual entry for memory for more information. R In R, the mem_used() function of the pryr package can inform your variable usage. Please see the http://adv-r.had.co.nz/memory.html (by Hadley Wickham) for more... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Disney Consumer Products based in Paris and led the company's entry into Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, and post-Apartheid South Africa. Hightower grew Disney's business from $650 million to $4.5 billion with... View Details
Matt Higgins
Matt Higgins is one of the preeminent venture investors in next-generation technology companies and beloved consumer brands. Created alongside Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, RSE Ventures has built an expansive multi-billion-dollar... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Packaged good manufacturers were eager to create a direct-to-consumer link like the one Dell found to sell computers. Such a link would minimize wasteful and inefficient marketing practices, which to date have mostly focused on broadcast... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship in General Management
summer at a consumer packaged goods company that makes some of the country’s most well-known brands, I learned how to approach a problem from a marketing perspective. I feel that the additional granularity... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
Alex Jiang
Alex Jiang cofounded Alpha Startup Fund in 2015 and builds Alpha Startups into one of the leading early stage venture funds in China. Alpha Startups invests in AI, IoT, enterprise solutions and consumer internet. It was voted by leading... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
Gotham Greens has an ongoing sustainable packaging team that stays abreast of new technologies as they emerge, continually searching for more sustainable options. Puri believes that a lack of suitable eco-packaging alternatives that... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Are you reaching your customers? The key is knowing who they are and what they want To appeal to retail customers you need to understand what makes them tick. What better way to do that than by studying actual consumer behavior? A great... View Details
Michael Kaplan
expansion of Blue Stripes Cacao Chocolate. He is currently launching a new venture in the consumer space. Michael has served as a speaker at the annual Women’s Wear Daily Digital Forum and Women’s Wear Daily Beauty Forum, a guest speaker... 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