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- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
obvious—igniting a revolution in retail—to the more subtle—how Amazon's web development services resulted in more startups receiving VC funding. What will be the next shoe to fall? Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'? Is Amazon's growing... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the quintessential entrepreneur." When Schultz purchased the Starbucks name and assets in 1987 for $3.8 million, the company, founded in 1971, had six retail stores that sold whole bean coffee, tea, and spices. Three years later, there... View Details
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Turning Around Tesco
The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
us,” says Simon. “That was the content we were able to share with our consumers via social media, and share with our retailers as well, to tell how our food comes to market.” Beneath the Harvest Sky was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
chocolate-chip cookies. Fox, who owns Community Bakery in Little Rock, Arkansas, says he never imagined he'd one day make his living absorbed in the business of food and its many challenges, including long hours, the unending demand for... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
Photos from Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. Photos from Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. What inspired you to launch Nilus as “an impact-driven company that applies technology to fight against food insecurity”? “We just couldn't believe that one-third... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
of them from Rwanda. A local Nigerian factory, Kaldi Africa, roasts the beans to produce a stronger brew than what Starbucks pours. Many of the other barriers to developing a coffeehouse culture that Dozie has encountered are simple View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
chocolate in our grab and go area, the retail area in the restaurants for maybe a year now. I would recommend starting here and then going that way. This one is the darkest chocolate. Julia: It’s like super bitter in a good way. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
BY PERMISSION OF JOHN DEERING AND CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. Nowadays, mighty Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and more like a war room. There is a groundswell of criticism of the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
competitive troubles experienced by other food companies such as Barilla in the home country. Like many national brands in Italy, Barilla was being squeezed by private-label products—store brands that had been created in response to... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? argues that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing... View Details
- November 2015 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
Mission Impossible? Yummy77 Delivers Groceries within the Hour
By: Benjamin Edelman
Yummy77 considers alternative operational models to reduce cost, improve speed, and increase appeal. Can one of these approaches succeed where others have failed? View Details
Keywords: Grocery Delivery; Operations; Platforms; Logistics; Distribution; Food; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China
Edelman, Benjamin. "Mission Impossible? Yummy77 Delivers Groceries within the Hour." Harvard Business School Case 916-025, November 2015. (Revised June 2017.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
customers interact with our team and how our team members view themselves. Celebrating that has become an important part of our year.” The events of 2020 meant putting aside financial concerns temporarily and focusing on community needs. During the fires, that meant... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
an executive at several food companies, Silk had revived other century-old brands such as Jell-O, Lea & Perrins, Hebrew National, and Armour. Based on those successes, New York–based hedge fund York Capital Management asked Silk to become... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Action Plan: Brewing Awareness
at the bars of Harvard Square—and carried that affinity with him to New York, where he took a job in finance at Perella Weinberg. At a Whole Foods located on the first floor of his apartment building, Murad could fill a growler with an... View Details
- Profile
Darrin Rahn
first first-place finish, and was honored by NAMA as its National Student of the Year. Taking food and beverages into the future Through the NAMA experience, Darrin "developed an interest in the demand side—how does View Details
Keywords: CPG
- June 1999 (Revised December 2002)
- Case
Supermercados Disco: Regional Strategy
The Disco chain of supermarkets has pursued a successful local niche strategy in Argentina to compete with intense competition from multinational chains. Now Disco considers options for expanding its regional strength. View Details
Keywords: Food; Marketing Strategy; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Argentina
Arnold, David J., Guillermo D'Andrea, and Silvina Romero Paz. "Supermercados Disco: Regional Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 599-127, June 1999. (Revised December 2002.)
- Profile
Cherian Kurien
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? For me the purpose of an MBA is to develop and refine one's political, economic and social worldview, by debating, listening to and understanding the views of the faculty and fellow students. Harvard Business School,... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- News