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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
“renovation”—keeping an offering’s essence intact while re-energizing it for greater impact—we will ask ourselves how to: Assess the quality of an innovation. Develop a framework to assess whether a new product or service will truly connect with View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
studies consumer decision-making, with a particular interest in how we make sense of other people’s choices. Just five days after the election, Barasz conducted an online survey that asked Trump voters what spurred them to vote for the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
about it. Some are comfortable with being known because there is some mission that they are trying to communicate, and others truly need consumers to experience the art itself. In the latter case, the chef... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
the world: growing demand and limited supply. According to US research, the world's demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply... View Details
- 11 Feb 2025
- HBS Seminar
Brett Hollenbeck, University of California, Los Angeles
- 26 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact
- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
In a visual world, most online retailers still rely on consumers to define and enter their own search keywords. But using images to help shoppers sharpen their queries could push them to buy more, spend... View Details
- 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
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
targeted as well. “I think if you want to make a pivot into private equity or venture capital you need to be really thoughtful and concentrated on what you’re interested in, whether that’s consumer products,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
terms with what business itself should be. Is it a method for delivering goods to consumers at the lowest prices? Is it a mechanism for providing employment? Is it a tool for asserting national power abroad? Is it a vehicle for building... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
was providing rides in 311 cities and 58 countries, and the startup’s reported valuation was estimated at about $70 billion in 2017. Consumers raved so much about the service... View Details
- December 2008
- Case
Taylor Fresh Foods
By: David E. Bell, Natalie Kindred and Mary Louise Shelman
In 13 years, Bruce Taylor had built Taylor Fresh Foods into a $1 billion company and the top supplier of salads to the U.S. food service industry and to supermarket deli departments. In 2008, he was convinced that the time was right to make a big push in the fresh food... View Details
Keywords: Food; Brands and Branding; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain Management; Competition; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
Bell, David E., Natalie Kindred, and Mary Louise Shelman. "Taylor Fresh Foods." Harvard Business School Case 509-008, December 2008.
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
School. Despite the steady increase, shoppers still bought their favorite breakfast cereals, paper towels, and other consumer goods during the decade and a half before the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
consumer interaction, the restaurant industry has been lightly studied academically. And yet its entrepreneurial and management learnings have broad application beyond... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
It’s Tuesday afternoon, March 4th. A lively group of HBS students passionate about retail entrepreneurship sit in Aldrich 108, waiting. Then “ping!” – up pop Julia Straus (HBS ’11) and Katharine Hill (HBS ’12) who both work at BaubleBar,... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
“where people live, learn, work, and play.” Many firms acknowledge the importance of employee health to their bottom lines, and have also started taking steps to improve their View Details
- March 2020
- Teaching Note
Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company
By: David J. Collis
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-483. View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."
different function.” Prior to business school, Jon had fulfilled two roles in clean energy: one at a service provider to commercial energy users in the efficiency and demand response space,” View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more — a thousand times more — to... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
technologies would spread. Otherwise, Speed Trap didn’t foresee major changes in how consumers and businesses would use the Internet. As a result, Speed Trap’s errors of omission are alarming. Here’s a... View Details