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  • Profile

Paul Scharfman

In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of ethnic consumers in the United... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Retail
  • 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
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing
  • 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
Keywords: Tesco; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 01 Oct 2001
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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
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers
  • 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
  • November 2015 (Revised June 2017)
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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
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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
Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 03 Mar 2020
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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 2014
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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
Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
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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
  • 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
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage
  • June 1999 (Revised December 2002)
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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
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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
Keywords: Retail; Retail
  • 23 Jul 2014
  • News

Meal-Delivery Startups Look for Winning Recipe

Keywords: Plated; Blue Apron; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; beer; India; leadership; COVID-19; manufacturing; marketing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
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