fast food - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The Robin Hood Army, an... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

’09), “and when I asked my host family what they were planning to do in the context of time lines and schedules, I realized that my tendency toward accomplishment and ambition didn’t seem to match with my family’s outlook on life.” As is so often true in the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

go and be fast or spend as few days as possible out there. My desire was to try and come in under the 30 day cutoff and as such, hopefully become the first woman to ski that race. When I started my journey to Nome, I came in with probably... View Details

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

pre-COVID financial markets were unstable and trade wars were intensifying. Public health in developing countries was improving thanks primarily to the work of NGOs. But in the US, men between 30 and 50 were dying fast enough to reduce... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

sinking fishing ship that had called out for help. Our ship provided food and water to fishermen who had been stranded for days and made sure that they could get back to their homes and families. What I will remember most were the moments... 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

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 22

contained expansion in Pakistan, exporting to nearby markets, and/or developing a global halal food brand. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512002-PDF-ENG Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Development Co., Ltd... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

and around Scranton during the 2006 congressional race, weary of fast food, spots a promising storefront. They’re closing, but she makes it in with five minutes to spare. Here is how the story goes, in her words: “A very handsome young... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Devices: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Regulators and Innovators By: Gordon, William J., and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract— Software has become an increasingly important component of medical device technology. Through legislation like the 21st Century Cures Act as... View Details