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    W. Earl Sasser

    Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

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    Hiring Organizations

    Ventures Stackpoint Ventures Standard Fluids Corporation, The Starbucks START Center for Cancer Care, The Steadfast Financial StepStone Group Stirling Square Capital Partners Straive Strategy& Stripe Struct Club Summit Partners SunWorks... View Details
    • 19 Apr 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: April 19

    differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

    thousands of Chinese suppliers, we find that suppliers in cities with more wage-related activism increased compliance with MNEs’ wage-related standards but tempered improvement in occupational health and safety. This tradeoff is more... View Details
    • July 2011 (Revised September 2012)
    • Case

    Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (A)

    By: Willy Shih
    "This trial is going to take longer." Those were words that Michael Kaschke, CEO of Carl Zeiss AG, was not surprised to hear as he nurtured the intraoperative radiotherapy business inside his company's microsurgery unit. But he also didn't expect it to take 13 years to... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Business History; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Research and Development; Safety
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    • 21 Nov 2023
    • Op-Ed

    The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

    In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 23 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

    called BuurtzorgWeb, through which they share patient notes, distribute knowledge, collaborate on problems that extend beyond a single neighborhood team, and access the Omaha System, a standardized taxonomy to classify patient care and... View Details
    Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer

    By: Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman
    We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer spending decisions by examining the purchasing behavior of a sample of online grocery shoppers over the course of a year. We compare the purchases customers make when redeeming a $10-off coupon they received from their... View Details
    Keywords: Spending; Consumer Behavior; Mathematical Methods; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 16 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

    suppliers to curate subscription boxes of artisanal food sold online. Why employees don’t want to return Barriers to rebuilding restaurant staffing begin with ensuring the safety of restaurant workers,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
    • 25 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

    operations. Product failures are, therefore, likely to impact firms’ subsequent innovation activities. Using 13 years of Food and Drug Administration data, we examine the effects of firm and competitor medical device recalls on subsequent... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    shaping the market for reusable containers for take-out food and beverages. Fabian shares how Vytal is tackling packaging waste by building a reusable container system for restaurants, canteens, and major events. He explains why... View Details
    • 31 Oct 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

    upon what she has found in that work. Specifically, her concern is the degree to which fear—fear of not being included, fear of appearing ignorant, fear of being ignored, fear of being the "skunk at the garden party,"—destroys teamwork, creativity, and innovation.... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 31 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

    In the run-up to the global financial crisis, credit rating agencies gave high marks to such risky financial vehicles as collateralized debt obligations, which few people understood. It has been argued that these ratings misled investors as to the View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
    • 2022
    • Case

    A Sweet Dilemma: Sourcing Palm Oil with Ferrero SpA and Nestlé

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    This case focuses on Ferrero SpA's sustainable palm oil sourcing strategy in light of its acquisition of Nestlé's U.S. confectionery brands, which in many ways does not comply with Ferrero's sustainable sourcing commitments. The case reviews Ferrero's rich family... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Supply Chain; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

    flights; the purpose of this policy is to help clarify acceptable use and safety of UAS on or above the HBS campus. Drug & Alcohol Policy Harvard Business School’s policy on drugs and alcohol reflects our concern for the health and... View Details
    • 10 Apr 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

    was a vertically integrated food company with a management system that allowed it to innovate and grow systematically. With sales of $2 billion in 2016, the firm not only produced flour, vegetable oil, and packaged View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

    a biotechnology company developing a first-in-class therapeutic targeting the underlying driver of 95 percent of colorectal cancers (CRC) and colonic adenomas. Supported by compelling preclinical data, Adeno aims to outperform standard... View Details
    • 14 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

    decisions and move forward. "Leaders must go from trying to have all the answers to being comfortable with being uncomfortable." As roundtable participants pointed out, "standard safety vests" aren’t available; best practices are still up... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
    • September 2020 (Revised October 2020)
    • Case

    Briscola—Pizza Society: Scaling Affordable Luxury

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Federica Gabrieli
    Riccardo Cortese and Federico Pinna were the CEOs of Briscola—Pizza Society, a restaurant chain they had founded in 2014 with a clear ambition: create a distinctive international pizza chain that would combine a fast-casual format with the devotion to quality that... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Geographic Location; Business Model; Ownership Type; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Italy
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    • 21 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

    see how many things [Denmark has] in place to redistribute income and wealth. I was curious to understand how we got to this point, and how do we build a society that can redistribute more and have such a robust safety net. This led me to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne