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Harvard Studies in Business History 53

Visualizing Taste

How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat

Ai Hisano is Senior Lecturer at the Graduate School of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan. Winner of the Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize, Hisano has been Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School. She has published on the food-coloring business, the development of transparent packaging, and gender politics and food marketing.

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