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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
environment, however, was not familiar to the typical MBA. Based in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, Lu spent half of her time in an office on a street she shared with roving chickens and cows and the other half traveling to field... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jan Swartz (MBA 1996)
Most memorable sleeping arrangements: The roof of a chicken coop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. "After HBS, some friends and I bought around-the-world tickets from an air consolidator. You can get one very cheap by flying at off times of the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
with a vendor to build an online marketplace that will essentially be a Craigslist of hunger, where restaurants or even smaller entities can post food availability—say, 50 pounds of chicken breasts at a local hotel—and a shelter could... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Origin Story: Ricky Cordova (MS/MBA 2025)
South of the border: “Both sides of my family are from northern Mexico; my mom’s side is from Hermosillo, Sonora, just a four- or five-hour drive from Tucson.” On the beat: “I was captain of the drumline in my high school marching band and played in the jazz band with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
fried cubed paneer (available at any Indian grocery store) or chicken (boneless breast cut into ½ inch cubes) 3 tablespoons Canola cooking oil 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 teaspoon salt (or to taste) 1... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
Enterprises, one of the world’s premier franchisors of restaurants and specialty-foods concepts, has received the HBS Club of Atlanta 2003 Community Leadership Award. Under Bellati’s leadership since 1992, AFC, parent company of Church’s Chicken, Popeyes View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a Jeep-sized cauldron of chicken... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
decades. I would always stop by, have breakfast, and see how all my local friends were doing. And this time she was just—oh, man—busy, busy, busy. She was on her cell phone, and she’s ordering an 18-wheeler full of frozen chicken parts.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of hundreds and perhaps thousands of dogs and cats (the numbers remain unclear, as there is no centralized database of such information). While the situation was uncertain, there was some concern that a production run of SmartPak’s LiveSmart Weight Management View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Wednesday night, at a renovated theater in Olathe, Kansas, $9.75 buys one of just 32 tickets available for a showing of The Monuments Men. AMC Studio 30 is among 13 AMC venues offering a full, seat-side service menu, with items such as Thai shrimp, View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
this “poisonous chicken soup,” as Chinese officials call it? The number of college graduates in China has increased immensely over the past three decades, from 2 million in 1990 to some 40 million today, says Bill Kirby, the T.M. Chang... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
the secrets to their much sought-after Bombay comfort food: the Bacon Naan Roll, Black Daal, Okra Fries, Jackfruit Biryani, Chicken Ruby, and Lamb Raan, along with Masala Chai, coolers, and cocktails. As you learn to cook the Dishoom... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Tropical's Nick Castaldo: “When you see employees who take pride in what they're doing and long lines of happy customers, it's terrifically satisfying.” Nick Castaldo is CEO of Miami-based Pollo Tropical, a chain of 54 quick-service restaurants offering grilled View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
and around Scranton during the 2006 congressional race, weary of fast food, spots a promising storefront. They’re closing, but she makes it in with five minutes to spare. Here is how the story goes, in her words: “A very handsome young man made me the most delicious... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
unveiled its Signature Crafted Menu, featuring three upscale sandwich accompaniments: pico guacamole, sweet BBQ bacon, and maple bacon Dijon, adorning either chicken or burger. “Our strategy is to innovate around our core quarter pound... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
revitalize the region’s ecotourism industry. “What was missing in that environment were business skills,” recalls Diamond, whose HBS admissions interview (conducted by phone from the Belize town of Punta Gorda) was interrupted by a balky connection and a melee of noisy... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
two years. I secured a leg of him, traveled with it, and visited old friends and new. We cooked with folk song singer. We cooked with a chicken farmer, a small restaurant owner. Everywhere we went, I cut off a chunk of the ham and gave it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
The choices available to consumers in the postwar boom transformed societal norms and expectations. With the advent of fast food, for example, millions of men, women, and children began to break bread — or hamburgers, chicken wings, and... View Details