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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Special Forces units while serving in Afghanistan. Saffron currently sells for $2,500 per kilogram because its harvesting and processing are so labor intensive. During the summer after their first year at HBS, Miller served as a brand... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Nov 2019
- News
Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO
Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) has been named the new CEO of McDonald’s. Previously serving as McDonald's USA President, Kempczinski was instrumental in the recent turnaround of the iconic burger chain, a process which was detailed at... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
you decide who to go to ask and what's the pitch process look like? SP: As I mentioned I'd never worked at a startup, I'd never worked at a tech company before besides my internship at Tesla. So a lot of this was brand new. Luckily I took... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Administrator, US Small Business Administration Download Mills profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1953 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1977 Joins General Foods 1981 Joins McKinsey & Company 1983 Joins E.S.... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
explains the process to his two young children: Think of your body as needing a recipe book, with each page detailing the directions to produce specific proteins. When a protein goes haywire—as might be the case with diabetes, when... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
tend to have a really nice quality perception, it also helped improve our overall quality scores. So, it really was the trifecta in terms of overall performance. Morrell: So this pilot process begins in the San Diego market. Did you go on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Feedback
virtually all digital maps, an integral part of everyone’s mobile devices and car navigation—think Google Earth. It started with the Landsat program at NASA in the early 1970s, but small startups appeared, including one that I started after graduating from HBS in 1976... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
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 View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
transparency in the food industry, and the iterative process that created Clover’s different look and feel. READ MORE Julia Hanna: So how would you describe Clover Food Lab to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
one-third of all the food in the world is wasted.” How does the company’s food distribution process work? “We focus on resolving the nutritional needs of community kitchens by... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott, noting that SFP can document up to 30 tons per hectare of carbon dioxide capture at its farms. In addition to capturing carbon dioxide, organic farming cuts down on demand for artificial, petroleum-based fertilizers. “This is the only thing I’ve ever seen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
in the food world are just several of the demands that have kept Thomas engaged in her new career. “Crisis management is the norm in the restaurant business,” she notes. “That doesn’t work for me because I was trained as an industrial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
of the Blackstone River in Northbridge, Massachusetts, the factory manufactures zinc-galvanized, plastic-coated welded wire mesh used to make lobster traps, security fencing, and other wire products, using a process Knott invented. The... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
focused on creating social equity and economic self-sufficiency, Silbert has a simple take on what ties her career together: "I'm a problem solver. I love digging into an issue and the analytical rigor of doing a scan of existing research to figure out the best... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
the state’s Office of Traffic Safety. But things never really got rolling until McMinn became involved in 2008 and rallied 34 local organizations that now occupy the coalition’s board of directors. “People don’t realize the power they have when they work together. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
A FEEL-GOOD HIGH: Founder Sarah Endline with sweetriot’s tiny treats. As a girl in Auburn, Michigan, a small town two hours north of Detroit, Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) grew up with a clear understanding of the link between crops in the field and View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
hone their leadership, teamwork, and design thinking skills to prepare for their Brazil immersion. The process informed the goal: to help their partner company attract more young families to the bakery chain and scale the business. “In... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria
Mezuo Nwuneli (MBA 2003) is focused on improving the quality of food, its production, and its distribution in his native Nigeria. Nwuneli is cofounder of AACE Food Processing & Distribution, a company he... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Helping California Wildfire Victims Rebuild
the process simpler,” Pechet told Forbes. The company is now managing the rebuild process for 150 victims of the California wildfires. The Homebound software, the article notes, “tracks 379 unique tasks that... View Details