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- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
coincided to make it the most difficult period in the company's history. Investments in the company's expansion took longer, cost more than anticipated, and expected profits were delayed. The price of butterfat, the key ingredient in ice...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent...
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Ito En with teas). On the bright side, Kameda’s recent acquisition of a U.S. company, Mary’s Gone Crackers, was showing steady sales growth, though profits were very low due to high manufacturing and raw ingredient costs, and distribution...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
or industry. In three sections, it first examines all the key laws and regulations with which healthcare organizations must comply. In section two, it explores in detail the seven essential ingredients for a good compliance program. In...
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- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
single day. Based on what you've learned, do you think discount vouchers make sense for large retailers? A: Discount vouchers seem to be most compelling for merchants with a low cost of goods sold and with a highly perishable product. Restaurants fit the bill in that...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
qualities that define a leader? Where does one find a mentor? What are the ingredients in the recipe for success? Getting beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works by Roger L. Martin (MBA 1981) and Sally R. Osberg (Harvard Business...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
we’re going to be avoiding the difficult conversations, that we’re going to be just looking at the rosy, that we’re going to be not going and dealing with the pitfalls until it’s too late, those are a lot of the things that are the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
neighborhood place, and she wanted to know where the chef got ingredients such as produce and chicken. It turned out that they were bought at a nearby market, but actually originated from abroad. Decades of corruption and haphazard...
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- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
experiment indicated that diners were 21.1% more likely to buy a bowl of chicken noodle soup when a sign revealing the ingredients of the soup also included the cafeteria’s costs to make the soup (Study 1). Three subsequent lab...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
land of the giants. Intel’s market capitalization at the end of 1980 was $1.7 billion. IBM’s was $39.6 billion. IBM manufactured most of its microelectronics in-house. Never in its history had it gone to an outside vendor for such a key View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
without a fuel tax, the United States would have recurrent energy crises “until we run out of money.” And he deplored the country’s inability to have a coherent energy policy, adding that “a little more statesmanship on the part of business leaders is a critical View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
and economic value, and strategic cross-sector alliances are key ingredients to achieving a sustainably successful business. For companies to move their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to the next level, they need to...
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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
depth of the field are likely to clarify matters. There are many areas, like how firm performance connects to entrepreneurial personality, that are woefully understudied and ripe for major advances if the appropriate cross-disciplinary View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
account, we present six studies, conducted in the field and in the lab. A pre-registered field experiment indicated that diners were 21.1% more likely to buy a bowl of chicken noodle soup when a sign revealing its ingredients also...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Self-confidence is not the real secret of leadership. The more essential ingredient is confidence in other people. Leadership involves motivating others to their finest efforts and channeling those efforts in a coherent direction. Leaders...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
itself (to send a useful signal to constituencies); c) avoiding (or making) statements that inflame (or mollify) the other side's internal opponents; d) helping the other side attractively frame the deal for Level II acceptability; e) providing the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chemicals and minimize our use of active ingredients - while assuring product effectiveness." The removal of one such chemical marked the start of the company's serious environmental efforts back in 1975. At that time, Johnson made the...
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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
often an essential ingredient of recovery. Detroit has a precedent in Pittsburgh and a variety of other cities and jurisdictions that have seen their trajectory fundamentally shift in the wake of precipitous economic and fiscal decline....
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- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
eighteen94 was conceived as a platform for giving Kellogg access to the kinds of skills, products, and ingredients that could help drive future growth. It was also a vehicle for changing mindsets and culture by reviving the...
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Sean Silverthorne