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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Montreal-Vancouver railroad in 1885, close-ups of early computing machinery, cyanotypes of European and U.S. bridges, images of workers in South African gold mines, a series of photos taken of supermarkets around the world circa early...
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- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust...
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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
because I want them to keep giving me the best service they can deliver in exchange for my commitment to fly them whenever I can. Consumers can achieve anonymity today by declining to join supermarket frequent shopper programs, but by so...
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- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
versus the inside. Marketing expertise depends on customer insights. These insights cannot be gleaned from looking at market research data on a computer screen. Just like politics, all marketing is retail. The customer votes every day at the View Details
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by John Quelch
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
industry. Buyer power appears to be higher in the Old World. Consumers are more sophisticated and somewhat more price sensitive in the Old World than in the New World. More sales occur through supermarkets and other off-premise locations...
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- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
recommendation for an FDA-approved tea to strengthen aging joints. The company would expand from the vending machine and supermarket to the pharmacy, doctor’s office, and hospital. Schneider is set to take over the role at the beginning...
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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
a bind: Would they have to compromise on their social purpose and use plastic? Or could they come up with a different solution? Team members had an idea: What if they sold their produce to supermarkets unpackaged, and View Details
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s...
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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Alvarez has visited farms, slaughterhouses, packing plants, and supermarkets to explore issues of concern to managers working around the world and across the supply chain. “We try to get into the weeds of what’s happening and speak to the...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
side by side on supermarket shelves for the long run. For politicians it is different. What counts is not the size of the market, that is, how many people actually vote. All that matters is winning a plurality on Election Day. The upshot...
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- 03 Aug 2022
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Hungry for Change
would become the “Patagonia of the food industry.” To reach that ambitious goal, Flynn would have to eschew the traditional supermarket approach, which requires products that have long shelf life—a bad match for her preservative-free...
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April White
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
of an extremely successful supermarket chain on the West Coast, where he achieved impressive business results through effective IT system implementation and management. As chair of the IT committee, he helps balance his company's...
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by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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The End of Cows?
replace it? Alvarez floats one possibility: Every supermarket could make meat on premise and then package and sell it. (The meat is simply muscle and fat cells, which are replicated to build the tissue we eat.) A supply like that would...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
examples of businesses that use Feng shui. Two high-profile users are the Hong Kong Bank, the largest and most successful bank in Hong Kong, and the Marks & Spencer stores, probably the most successful supermarket and department store...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
much a reader-centric company. Will bookstores survive in this changing industry? MA: Yes. Our goal is to maintain the most diversified marketplace possible and to strengthen the physical bookstore channel of distribution. Now, you can walk into a View Details
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
for the private sector's consumer-driven experiences with lower-income populations, the experience of Whole Foods, a supermarket chain, is instructive. As of 2004, its employees, primarily blue collar, have saved $14 million in health...
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
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Hiroshi Mikitani
hyper-efficient supermarket with standardized offerings,” Rakuten is more like a bazaar “where the owners of many small shops curate the merchandise and interact personally with customers.” Starting out, Rakuten charged...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
Supermarkets in Australia, and the media company ITV. Unsuccessful: The Conservative Party, where he served as an MP from 1996 to 2005. “While I was there, we became very good at losing elections, and politics in the UK is binary. Either...
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Julia Hanna