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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
restaurants in the Los Angeles area. But after 25 years, the business went bust, and she relocated the family to her native Mexico when the Salas brothers were 12 years old. It’s a fitting origin story for Camino Financial, an online... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
if I own a restaurant, I don’t really know what 20 or 50 knots mean for me.” But ClimaCell could, say, let the restaurant know that the bad weather means fewer customers, and therefore fewer staff are needed. Elkabetz concedes that many... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
can get back to the level of preparedness they need to be at. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
office space and providing general advice." (Before accepting donated equipment, Taubenslag notes, some businesses ask, "Does somebody else need it more than we do?") Taubenslag also aided the co-owners of a restaurant business who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
1,000 customers eat at the 525-seat restaurant in one hour, washing down slices of homemade pie or a maple-iced donut with cups of the store’s famous five-cent coffee. In a town with a population of 800 people, Wall Drug bolsters its... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
verge of extraordinary economic growth. And with GDP growth, people will start to travel. Except back then, there was no market segmentation, whatever-- when you talk about traveling to China, everybody had the same itinerary, the same sort of View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
skeptical Nigerian consumers to eat what its farmers grow. A couple of summers ago, Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) saw this dilemma firsthand when she stopped by a small restaurant outside Lagos in southwest Nigeria, not far from the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
the scope of the economic emergency. For a related research paper he was coauthoring with Ben Iverson of Brigham Young University and David Thesmar of MIT, Greenwood marshaled a unique array of data—including airline ticket sales and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
If you don’t fix it, you’re going to lose the trust. If you couldn’t go into a restaurant and trust the fact that the food had been prepared right. And that’s because there’s laws and regulations that come in there. We see View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
one’s employees. That’s pretty good!” That classmate, David Karam, who operates 135 Wendy’s restaurant franchises in five states, says of Navasky, “Vic really ventured into the lion’s den at OPM — we were a pretty conservative bunch. But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
said with music.” Galatoire’s is a New Orleans institution—the kind of restaurant where a waiter may have served the same family for generations. The local desire to eat and be seen at Galatoire’s is so strong that its no-reservations... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
opportunity came knocking four years later when college fraternity brother William F. (“Rick”) Cronk (AMP 92, 1983), with whom he shared the daily commute, invited Rogers to join him as a partner in a restaurant venture. Rogers hesitated... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
now going to reward you with a trip to One if By Land, Two if By Sea, the most glamorous restaurant in Manhattan. And what I learned from it is never assume that what the bosses have done is right just because they're the bosses. My name... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
advertising over his first four years with the club. Matsui's presence reportedly brought $500 million in five years to New York City, measured by everything from hotel bookings to restaurant sales. Of course, no amount of marketing in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
even more learners, and we’re running a number of experiments to try and get to non-linear growth. Editor's note: Dean Datar's response applies to both of the following questions: Along with another HBS sectionmate, Steve Sarver, I operate a food manufacturing and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
for holding honest conversations with everyone in your organization. Used by more than 800 organizations across the globe, the strategic fitness process has helped leaders in a diverse range of industries—including medical technology, information technology, banking,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
free trade zones began the transformation of China’s state-run economy. In the 1990s, you saw a significant easing of restrictions on startups—first in the restaurant industry and gradually spreading elsewhere. Small, state-owned... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
a variety of environmental initiatives that he has undertaken over the years. His devotion to preserving the island's natural beauty as well as the Fijian culture has earned Turtle Island accolades that include the 1999 Green Hotelier Award from the International Hotel... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
Enterprises, one of the world’s premier franchisors of restaurants and specialty-foods concepts, has received the HBS Club of Atlanta 2003 Community Leadership Award. Under Bellati’s leadership since 1992, AFC, parent company of Church’s... View Details