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  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue

hours of photographing, measuring, and inspecting, McCarter asked his colleagues if they wanted him to bid on Sue. A resounding kid-in-the-candy-store "yes" put him on his next task — raising the funds to purchase her. McCarter first approached View Details
Keywords: McDonald's; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • News

Are The Golden Arches of McDonald's Becoming A Relic Of Fast Food's Past?

  • November 2015
  • Supplement

McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs: Powerpoint Supplement

By: Michael W. Toffel
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Toffel, Michael W. "McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain—From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs: Powerpoint Supplement." Harvard Business School PowerPoint Supplement 616-037, November 2015. (This Powerpoint supplement for instructors supports teaching note 616-021.)
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

State of the Unions

A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed the company’s Oak Brook, Illinois, headquarters to let their... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; McDonald's; Walmart
  • November 2022
  • Case

Arcos Dorados’ Quest for the Digitalization of Last-Mile Delivery in Colombia

By: Jorge Tamayo, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
In 2018, Francisco Staton, Managing Director of Arcos Dorados in Colombia had to decide on the company’s strategy to expand its food ordering and delivery business in the country. Arcos Dorados stood as McDonald’s largest independent franchisee, and Colombia was one of... View Details
Keywords: Digital Transformation; Delivery; McDonald's; Latin America; Quick Serve Restaurants; QSR; Transformation; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Global Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Logistics; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Latin America; South America; Colombia
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Tamayo, Jorge, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Mariana Cal. "Arcos Dorados’ Quest for the Digitalization of Last-Mile Delivery in Colombia." Harvard Business School Case 723-395, November 2022.
  • September 1998
  • Case

McDonald's: International Expansion Strategy

By: Gary W. Loveman and Sabina M. Ciminero
James Cantalupo, CEO of McDonald's International, and top management have a few months to decide how the McDonald's brand should be transferred into India. Faced with the challenges presented by the Indian market--80% of Indians are Hindus and cherish cows as sacred... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Expansion; Brands and Branding; Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; India
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Loveman, Gary W., and Sabina M. Ciminero. "McDonald's: International Expansion Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 899-005, September 1998.
  • February 2003 (Revised November 2003)
  • Exercise

McDonald's: Super-Sized Troubles (B)

This case is the second of two cases that describe the situation and poor performance at McDonald's Corp. in early 2003. This exercise directs students to employ a structured problem-solving process to evaluate the McDonald's strategy. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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"McDonald's: Super-Sized Troubles (B)." Harvard Business School Exercise 303-099, February 2003. (Revised November 2003.)
  • December 1980 (Revised February 1998)
  • Case

Burger King Corp.

By: W. Earl Sasser and David C. Rikert
Describes the operating system of a Burger King unit. The case does not have a decision focus; it is designed for use with McDonald's Corp. Students are asked to compare the operating systems of these two fast food hamburger chains. Careful analysis will detect the... View Details
Keywords: Food; System; Operations; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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Sasser, W. Earl, and David C. Rikert. "Burger King Corp." Harvard Business School Case 681-045, December 1980. (Revised February 1998.)
  • May 2001 (Revised November 2014)
  • Background Note

The Income Statement

By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Includes a description of the common components of the income statement. Includes examples of the income statements of Home Depot, Inc., Lucent Technology, Inc., Gap, Inc., and McDonald's Corp. and lends itself to a brief discussion regarding these companies. View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Statements
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Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "The Income Statement." Harvard Business School Background Note 101-109, May 2001. (Revised November 2014.)
  • February 2003 (Revised February 2003)
  • Exercise

McDonald's: Super-Sized Troubles (A)

This case is one of two cases that describe the situation and poor performance at McDonald's Corp. in early 2003. This exercise instructs students to employ an unstructured brainstorming process to develop strategic options for McDonald's. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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"McDonald's: Super-Sized Troubles (A)." Harvard Business School Exercise 303-098, February 2003. (Revised February 2003.)
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Video

Aban Pestonjee

Aban Pestonjee, one of Sri Lanka's most prominent entrepreneurs and the founder of Abans Group, one of the country's largest business groups, discusses the early diversification from import and retail into a... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by doubling its share price in less... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
  • Case

OSI in China

By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
OSI, one of the world's largest suppliers of processed meats to McDonald's and other QSRs, was in the middle of a $400M expansion in China that included backward integration into poultry production. However, its current customers took only a portion of each bird... View Details
Keywords: China; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Competitive Positioning; Organizational Design; Channels Of Distribution; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
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Bell, David E., and Mary Shelman. "OSI in China." Harvard Business School Case 513-045, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
  • June 2013 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Procter & Gamble

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On July 12, 2012, Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management announced publicly that it had purchased about $2 billion of Procter and Gamble (P&G) stock. Shares in the company closed up 3.75% the day the disclosure was made public. Ackman told the New York... View Details

Keywords: Ackman; P&G; Pershing Square Capital Managment; Disruption; Management Succession; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; Financial Services Industry
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Lorsch, Jay W., and Kathleen Durante. "Procter & Gamble." Harvard Business School Case 413-127, June 2013. (Revised September 2015.)
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Company, 1907–1925 Samuel H. Kress S. H. Kress Company, 1896–1924 Raymond A. Kroc McDonald's Corporation, 1955–1973 Bernard H. Kroger Kroger's Food Stores, 1883–1928 Daniel J. Krumm Maytag Corporation, 1974–1992 James R. Kuse Georgia Gulf... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

different, not by being the same. In the Harvard Business School case "Yum! China," professor David E. Bell and Agribusiness Program director and senior researcher Mary Shelman examine how Yum! Brands, the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut, outperformed... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

employees), deliver personalized customer service, and maintain a close connection to the local community. In addition, McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts had emerged as serious competitors, offering their own lines of specialty coffee... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Op-Ed

Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.

other complaints about the company’s culture. "It's clear McDonald's culture is rotten from top to bottom,” she said. Perhaps the height of lack of disclosure was reached by a nonprofit CEO in Massachusetts, who boasted of his... View Details
Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger
  • 05 Nov 2019
  • News

Alumnus Named McDonald’s CEO

Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) has been named the new CEO of McDonald’s. Previously serving as McDonald's USA President, Kempczinski was instrumental in the recent turnaround of the iconic burger chain, a process which was detailed at... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 18 Jan 2018
  • News

The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast

experience all the things that are coming from McDonald's as an experience of the future. So it wasn't just something we talked about, it wasn't just something we demonstrated in a PowerPoint presentation. But they came into a big... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
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