Whole Foods - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 29

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711491-PDF-ENG The Full Yield Ray A. Goldberg and Noemie DelfassyHarvard Business School Case 911-402 New firm created to provide understanding of the role of food in health and nutrition.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

Brian Kenny: Here's a hypothetical for you. Imagine you're sitting at your favorite coffee shop when a teenager pulls up a chair and asks you to share a bunch of personal information. He wants to know your birthday, what kind of food you... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

venture-backed fusion reactor program today, Tri-Alpha Energy, of Rancho Santa Margarita, California. There is a whole crop of privately financed "new" Gen IV nuclear power technologies—like those at Martingale or Transatomic or... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

food is good.” You've got a lot of rankings out there that are looking at seemingly pretty unimportant things like the taste of the food but maybe to that end consumer that's a really important element.... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

on agribusiness, the term with which he has become synonymous. He currently teaches a food policy and agribusiness course at the Kennedy School, the Agribusiness Seminar at HBS, and a University-wide seminar on public issues facing the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

disconnected from strategy as to obscure many great opportunities for companies to benefit society. What a terrible waste. If corporations were to analyze their opportunities for social responsibility using the same frameworks that guide their core business choices,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

to work in isolation without understanding the whole, they brought in the UDA, then headed by Nayana. Fortunately he took the whole thing by the scruff of its neck, prioritized, identified goals, and made a clear plan.” Given the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

materials to how the products were used and ultimately disposed of by consumers. Unilever had calculated that consumer use accounted for more than two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions and half the water used in its products’ life cycle, so it was logical to address... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

examines the operations strategy of Whole Foods, one of the largest natural grocery chains in the United States. In late 2013, Whole Foods was expanding rapidly, with a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

course, OLPC aspires to many more commitments to fulfill its vision of "one laptop per child." Herein, marketers find much food for thought. According to Quelch, a professor of marketing, the laptop's creation and diffusion are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles

sinking fishing ship that had called out for help. Our ship provided food and water to fishermen who had been stranded for days and made sure that they could get back to their homes and families. What I will remember most were the moments... View Details

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

during my freshman year and his sophomore year at Indiana University. We fell in love through ping pong games (I always lost), late night fast food runs, weekends exploring state parks, Bible studies, and service trips. We survived a year... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark... View Details

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

school that would address the many problems afflicting the region—including lack of education, alcohol abuse, and moral decay. Pine Mountain owes its name to the late 19th-century settlement movement to improve the lives of poor, urban Americans; the movement would go... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

to the customer over time. Customer relationships become continuous and open-ended, service becomes more efficient and proactive, and new business models are enabled. The rich data on location and environment that products provide take logistics to a View Details

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

services, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, J. W. Marriott, Nordstrom, Publix supermarkets, Quicken Loans, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, USAA insurance, Wegmans, Whole Foods Markets, among others. These... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

Jamshedpur. Metro Cash & Carry's primary business filled voids in the food supply chains in emerging markets, reducing waste and bringing more transactions into the tax net, although this argument could not overcome entrenched... View Details