Food and Chemicals - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2014
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An MBA That Served up a Big Slice of the Snack Market

Keywords: Panera; Au Bon Pain; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

14 Oct 2014
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The Steve Jobs of Beer

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

27 Nov 2013
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Panera Bread chain. "Before we opened the first Panera Cares in Clayton, Missouri, in 2010, we'd focused on food-insecurity issues and given away hundreds of millions of dollars in product and donations,"... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

29 Mar 2010
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Doing Good, With Candy

Keywords: chocolate; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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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... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

25 Apr 2016
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Trail Blazer

Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why McMinn, founder View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect

around food and drink. A frequent campus visitor, Dick Spangler remembers the day in Dean Clark’s office when the subject of a campus center first came up. “The Dean said, ‘I need to talk to you about... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

04 Sep 2019
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Action Plan: A New ’Cue

opinion of what barbecue is and how it should be made.” How would he please people across the barbecue spectrum? Corsello’s solution was bold. He and his partner Jeff Mauro, of View Details

Keywords: April White

29 Jul 2021
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A Clean Start

Todd Brix (MBA 1997, Baker Scholar), a chemical engineer and businessman who spent 18 years at Microsoft, wanted to come up with a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: What to do... View Details

22 Jul 2014
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Hungry for Change

associated with food insecurity in Minnesota ($1.6 billion annually, according to a study by the University of Minnesota) and what it will take to fix the problem ($300 million, with an estimated 100 million... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

13 May 2021
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How Two Classmates Began a Journey of Tackling the High Blood Sugar Epidemic

Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

25 Apr 2014
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Agent of change

varied path for the Lafayette College chemical engineering major and former process engineer at Proctor & Gamble. "I really enjoy new challenges," says Skovran, who credits HBS with preparing her for the... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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New MBA Leadership Course

Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take... View Details

Keywords: HBS; LCA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2014
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Innovation: Frozen Assets

and Derek Jeter at the launch of the Luvo food truck this summer in New York City. (Courtesy of Luvo) Growth for the three-year-old Luvo, though, requires overcoming a few cultural hurdles. While frozen-food... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

26 Feb 2014
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How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

13 Feb 2013
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Everything but the Cook

Keywords: e-commerce; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

04 May 2011
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Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)

A spicy chickpea dish © Kirti Poddar on Flickr When Dean Nitin Nohria sat down for an interview with us last September, we asked: "What do you like to do for fun?" His answer: "I love to cook. I'm vegetarian, and I cook Indian View Details

Keywords: Bulletin; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith

A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith recalls, was "personable, creative,... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

20 Nov 2019
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From the Ground Up

Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education... View Details