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Steven A. Burd
store chains in California, Illinois, Alaska and Texas. The improved, larger Safeway is now the third largest retail food chain in terms of sales, with revenues of $28.9 billion, and has earned Burd...
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Retail
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
expensive foods, retailing at $4,000 or more a pound. Iran is the largest producer of this highly prized spice, which stains food a brilliant golden hue, but David Luo (MBA 2011) believes that Afghanistan...
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John P. Mackey
Through a series of acquisitions, Mackey transformed Whole Foods from a small, niche player in the grocery retail business into a major enterprise. In many ways, Mackey and Whole View Details
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Retail
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a...
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Kim Chen
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I sought to expand the way I think about my career and business and the context in which both operate. I knew HBS would help me do so by exposing me to a diverse set of classmates, topics, and sides of many important...
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Paul Scharfman
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of ethnic consumers in the United...
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Jeno F. Paulucci
Pizza into one of the largest frozen food operations in the United States; he sold it to Pillsbury in 1986. Jeno’s Pizza was Paulucci’s second success in the grocery retail trade business. Years earlier, he...
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Food & Tobacco
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Turning Around Tesco
The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is...
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- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
obvious—igniting a revolution in retail—to the more subtle—how Amazon's web development services resulted in more startups receiving VC funding. What will be the next shoe to fall? Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'? Is Amazon's growing...
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- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
us,” says Simon. “That was the content we were able to share with our consumers via social media, and share with our retailers as well, to tell how our food comes to market.” Beneath the Harvest Sky was...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there...
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- 14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
Photos from Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. Photos from Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. What inspired you to launch Nilus as “an impact-driven company that applies technology to fight against food insecurity”? “We just couldn't believe that one-third...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
of them from Rwanda. A local Nigerian factory, Kaldi Africa, roasts the beans to produce a stronger brew than what Starbucks pours. Many of the other barriers to developing a coffeehouse culture that Dozie has encountered are simple View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
chocolate in our grab and go area, the retail area in the restaurants for maybe a year now. I would recommend starting here and then going that way. This one is the darkest chocolate. Julia: It’s like super bitter in a good way. View Details
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Agriculture
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for...
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Hanna, Julia
- November 2015 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
Mission Impossible? Yummy77 Delivers Groceries within the Hour
By: Benjamin Edelman
Yummy77 considers alternative operational models to reduce cost, improve speed, and increase appeal. Can one of these approaches succeed where others have failed?
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Grocery Delivery;
Operations;
Platforms;
Logistics;
Distribution;
Food;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
China
Edelman, Benjamin. "Mission Impossible? Yummy77 Delivers Groceries within the Hour." Harvard Business School Case 916-025, November 2015. (Revised June 2017.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
BY PERMISSION OF JOHN DEERING AND CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. Nowadays, mighty Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and more like a war room. There is a groundswell of criticism of the...
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- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? argues that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing...
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