Visualizing Taste

How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat

Ai Hisano

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HARDCOVER

$42.00 • £33.95 • €38.00

ISBN 9780674983892

Publication Date: 11/19/2019

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336 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

6 photos, 8 color photos, 5 illus.

Harvard Studies in Business History

World

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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.

Awards & Accolades

2020 Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference

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