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  • 01 Aug 2013
  • News

For Clover CEO, openness is first

Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

job was in grocery retail and I knew the food space was where I wanted to be long-term. Food forms such a foundational part of life and I immediately found it meaningful to be... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

under then-accepted principles of multiunit retail management. As a result, the company raised the number of units for which a manager was responsible from one to ten or more. By necessity, managers could do little more than provide... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

    Samuel M. Walton

    1987, Wal-Marts numbered over 1,000 and had sales of $14 billion. Gaining momentum from the success of Wal-Mart, Walton created the highly successful bulk food store chain, Sam’s Wholesale Club, which also earned revenues in the billions.... View Details
    Keywords: Retail
    • 14 Oct 2015
    • News

    Blue Apron's Got Big Plans For Dinner - But So Do Its Hungry Rivals

    Keywords: Plated; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
    • Web

    Club Conferences | MBA

    19, 2024 Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Retail & Luxury Goods Club Conference October 20, 2024 Retail & Luxury Goods Climate Symposium November 2, 2024 Energy & Environment Club View Details
    • 19 Nov 2014
    • HBS Case

    Marketing Marijuana

    a second is, how much will overall demand increase—since, now that it's legal, you'll have people demanding it who wouldn't have demanded it before." Early indications are that demand is there—and growing. Despite tight regulation, between January and July the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • 01 May 2013
    • News

    Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997

    country and culture,” Asur says. In addition to Mustafa’s diversified family oil business, the Asurs are partners in Istanbul-based Aragon Capital, a firm they launched five years ago that manages a variety of investments including commercial and residential... View Details
    • 06 May 2019
    • News

    Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?

    The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of Boston-area casual vegetarian... View Details
    Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
    • January 2018
    • Case

    OldTown Berhad

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
    In December 2017, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE, a Dutch coffee company) made an offer to acquire OldTown Berhad (OTB), a Malaysian coffee company. Three large shareholders, representing more than half of the outstanding shares, have agreed to tender their shares, and... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Discounted Cash Flow (DCF); Malaysia; Coffee; Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG); Free Cash Flow (FCF); Multiples; Bidding Premia; Netherlands; Tender Offer; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Value Creation; Food; Investment Return; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Malaysia; Netherlands; Singapore; Asia
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    • Career Coach

    Megan Gardner

    capital led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer, expanded the company to 28 different cities with 350+ employees and contractors while growing the online member base to over a million people. She worked with top retailers like Target,... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality
    • 01 Mar 2006
    • News

    Robots to the Rescue

    firm has landed two rounds of private financing and placed pilot systems at operations of a major retailer and food company. If all goes as planned, Mountz sees “no limit to the number of companies that want... View Details
    Keywords: robotics; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
    • 01 Sep 2013
    • News

    Who Are We?

    and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941) coin the term agribusiness 236 alumni work in the food and beverage industry 2,406 alumni list... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing
    • 28 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 28

    marketing organization, selling 46 products, including pouched milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and infant food through a million retailers across the country, and is the market leader in almost all the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Student Clubs | MBA

    Finance Club FinTech Club First Generation Students Club Food and Agriculture Club Football/Soccer Club Formula One Club French-Speaking Club Future of Mobility Future of Work Club G Gaming and Game Industry Club General Management &... View Details
    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

    years later, it's clear that she made the right choice. As a director of the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company and managing partner of McKinsey Southeast United States, Karch has become an expert on numerous business topics, such as retailing, mass merchandising,... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • March 2018
    • Teaching Note

    Sandlands Vineyards

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
    Teaching Note for HBS No.718-438. View Details
    Keywords: Wine; Winery; Vineyard; Market Attractiveness; Porter's 5 Forces; Capital Investment; Industry Attractiveness; Performance Analysis; Napa Valley; Agriculture; Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Food; Supply Chain; Industry Structures; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States; California; Napa Valley
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    • 23 Apr 2014
    • HBS Case

    Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

    Harvard Business School. "They provide the dubious pleasure of nicotine without all the cancer-inducing toxins associated with tobacco." Very quickly, however, enthusiasm faded, when some public health advocates began worrying that the cure was worse than the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage
    • 01 Mar 2023
    • News

    Case Study: Power Nappy

    Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 15 Oct 2019
    • News

    Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

    Miguel (MBA 1997) and Mariana Cal. Molino Cañuelas is a vertically integrated food business where management encourages innovation and growth. As the company continues to expand, the case explores whether it should follow the same... View Details