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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
capital, and for nearly a decade he served as chairman and CEO of Jeepers!, a national chain of indoor amusement parks. While finance remains his area of expertise, El-Hage recently took on a new assignment as senior associate dean for... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
– our scientists and engineers have delivered massive design improvements and our manufacturing and supply chain leaders have delivered unbelievable cost improvements. If you take the cost competitiveness of renewables, the increasing... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
in June, the CEO of leading Colombian supermarket chain Grupo Éxito, Carlos Mario Giraldo, talked about his company’s efforts to help customers, employees, and essential workers. Middle East & North Africa Research Center In May, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging business idea: the vanguard company creating synergy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
1963 introduced moviegoers to the first US "multiplex" by renovating a theater to include two screens; in 1988, the company opened North America's first "megaplex," the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas, and pioneered stadium seating in 1995. The second-largest American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
children under five are undernourished, even as broken supply chains mean that up to a third of produce is wasted. The World Bank estimates that some 22 percent of the nation's 175 million people are unemployed; half of 15- to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
these issues, not just because of supply chain or competitive advantage, but because increasingly they also want to be good citizens. And they want to do the right thing while delivering to their stockholders. I’ve seen some of these... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
Why Raising Retail Pay Is Good for the Gap
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to eat meat. Now a View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
negotiations to supply Wal-Mart with her family farm’s pumpkins and watermelons. Like Muccio, Talley confronted some of the same hardball price challenges, and like Muccio, she acquired a deep understanding of the Wal-Mart culture while finding “new money” in the... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
world.” Sapone said she found her inspiration at HBS, following the success of Barna and Hyman. “There is a chain reaction of inspiration at HBS,” Sapone said. “These women had to beat down the door harder than I did. There has been some... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the food View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
States, complete with fast-food chains and high-end malls. It’s a long way from our stay in the Zapotec villages. The companies we visit — Sealed Air, Femsa (Mexico’s largest beverage company), and ALFA — demonstrate the diversity and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
forth." As it happens, a large grocery store chain recently moved into the neighborhood Crockett studied, and he hopes eventually to return to Milwaukee to document the impact the new facility is having on the community. "Clearly, having... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- News
Track Customer Service, but Don't Forget the Financials
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers in wealth-creating value View Details
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone
Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with industry thought leaders... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley