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- 01 Sep 2010
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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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- 01 Dec 2006
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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
- 19 Oct 2011
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A Good Look
Levy: Ingredients for beauty from an unlikely source. Photo courtesy Kerty Levy A company that manufactures the nutritional ingredients used in animal feed doesn’t seem like the most likely incubator for a...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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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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- 03 Jan 2018
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Candy That Is Good for You
ingredient in gum. We use chicle, which is a natural, biodegradable ingredient that's the sap of a tree in Central America. We're very proud of the fact that our gum is better for the environment as a...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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A Natural Balance
that produces all-natural oils, lotions, and skin cleansers from ingredients such as sandalwood oil, rose oil, and lavender. SUNDÃRI means "beautiful woman" in Hindi, and in a TV interview on CNNfn's Entrepreneurs Only (March 17, 2000),...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Going Down Easy
the ingredients simple: “We set out to do a show that would really talk about the authentic food ways, the things that were kind of in danger of being trampled and lost as we move toward larger scale food,” Duda explained to the New...
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- 04 May 2011
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Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
cereal." Thanks to reunion volunteer Laurel Skurko (MBA '91), who enticed the Dean to share three of his favorite recipes, HBS alumni can try these everyday main course dishes. Channa Masala (Spicy Chickpeas) Ingredients (to serve 4) 2...
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- 15 Mar 2024
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Hungry for Change
As a management consultant at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) often worked with clients in the packaged food industry. She saw customers asking for healthier and more sustainable foods, and she herself was seeking better options. From that hunger, Sun & Swell was...
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- 03 Aug 2022
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Hungry for Change
on the back of the package. Eventually, “I really started focusing on the actual ingredients I was putting in my body,” she recalls. When she did, Flynn discovered that a diet of nutritionally rich, minimally processed foods gave her more...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Porter's Paradox
in this country and abroad. With the proximity that clusters provide, companies can do things together without formal ownership or legal relationships. And this kind of flexibility opens up more possibilities for change and dynamism, which are crucial View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Improving the quality of food in Nigeria
in a processing landscape that imports approximately 90 percent of ingredients used in food production. To address the problem of malnutrition and the lack of healthy foods in Nigeria, Nwuneli and her husband, Mezuo Nwuneli (MBA 2003),...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
destinations worldwide. AbilityTrip's mobile application supports the traveler on-site, featuring comprehensive information on five key destinations. Currently the director of ingredients procurement for Kraft Foods, Brehm devotes much of...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
São Paulo neighborhoods and discovered that proximity was the key ingredient for shoppers. “They would go to the bakery that is right next to their apartment because they just wanted convenience,” observes Ormeci. The students soon...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Feedback
leaders and an expanded sense of what’s possible”: Those were—and continue to be—the most valuable ingredients of The Next 36. —Jacqueline Cook via alumni.hbs.edu What’s Next? Re: Living the mission I applaud Dean Nohria’s efforts in...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
blockbusters may now be key ingredients for the impact we aim to have as leaders." —Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002, DBA 2013), Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment, by Anita...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2014
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In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)
take 14 or 15 hours. One of the highlights of the year is having the whole 80 Thoreau staff to my house for BBQ. I experiment with the wood, the rub, the meat—you want it to be your best stuff." Three ingredients for success: People,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
United States, rather than investing massive sums to regain technological preeminence, is much better off becoming the best country at incorporating such advances in new products and services, no matter where the ingredients are produced....
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
contaminated. “We had been following the dog food recall, which centered around contaminated wheat gluten, a cheap dog food ingredient used primarily in supermarket brands,” explains Gisholt. “But we were totally shocked to discover that...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
Town, and Helsinki. Mike Lim (MBA 2020), one of the students on the Choco Pie team, says, “Our assignment was to determine how to target millennial women with the new product . . . driving sales at their specialty kiosks and shops.” The new cake, made with better View Details