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- 15 Jul 2025
- News
Bringing Business Insights to Micro-entrepreneurs
Every day, more than one million hawkers and other food and beverage vendors across Southeast Asia use the Grab delivery service to operate their small businesses—and grow them for the future—with a little help from Grab’s new AI Merchant Assistant. Via the company’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
make a great tasting cocktail that eschewed the high calorie, sugar-laden mixers in favor of a zero calorie, organic alternative?” Though neither one had ever considered an entry into the massive beverage industry, the idea was... View Details
- 08 May 2025
- Blog Post
Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)
and I spent our summers building businesses so we could buy Starbucks beverages or movie tickets without asking for money from our parents. Our most successful endeavor was a dog-walking business—we had rewards programs, fancy... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
of the issues near and dear to the Class of 2009. The event, which organizers thought might be a first in HBS history (or at least the first in quite some time) included complimentary beverages and enough popcorn to fuel a movie marathon.... View Details
- Profile
Rachel Silverstein
classical training in corporate finance could bring a lot of value – in structure and strategy – to a startup." Rachel's hunch was right, and she proceeded to work for two different startups in the food and beverage and vacation... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
brand strategies. They looked to emerging international markets to fuel growth and broaden their portfolios of alternate beverages like tea, juice, sports drinks, energy drinks, and bottled water. Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola had vied for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
York City. How did you get professionally involved with food? In college, I ran a company that delivered birthday cakes ordered by students' parents. After HBS, as a consultant to the food and beverage industry, I became fascinated by the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
and Sylvan Guo, for Hue, an e-commerce technology platform that helps brands and retailers to showcase short-form, customer-generated video reviews on their websites. The virtual audience then awarded the Crowd Favorite prize of $5,000 to Tilden, a nonalcoholic View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
constitute products sometimes used together—a beverage and a snack. And at the end, reflecting the brand brotherhood and product pairing, the two personalities meet briefly in a split-screen appearance. Click to watch. To me, these ads... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
Forest Reinhardt Since brewing is a marketing-driven business, finding ways to differentiate a beverage from its competition is crucial. Heineken’s chief marketing officer took a novel approach: take the complicated processes of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
then went on to sell it to SalesForce. Kyle is now a VC at DCM Ventures. Andrew and Bin from Boba Guys - I’m particularly interested in scaling out Food & Beverage businesses because I just took classes in Real Estate and Restaurants... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
prides itself on a handcrafted approach to coffee beverages that highlight natural flavors. Before coming to HBS, Keller served four years in the Navy; he cites teamwork as one of the greatest attractions of the work he did then and now.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
quality responses from the community. A beverage company client for Tongal initially asked for an ad that would convince people that its product was healthier than competitors. But if the question were posed in that way, many of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
spend most of my time on planes. Officially I live in Switzerland. Whom do you admire? Nelson Mandela. I will never forget the day he was elected president. He was all smiles even though he had suffered so much. He reconciled a whole country. Favorite beverage? Bud... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
- 16 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS
world-class organization known for growing leaders. I would have a number of general management roles at PepsiCo over the course of over five years—both in the food and beverage divisions. Being “in the arena” of line management taught me... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
beverage companies, and they know they have major water issues." This has created a rapidly increasing demand for technologies and services to discover, manage, filter, and disinfect and/or desalinate water, and to improve infrastructure... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
unobtrusive and provide a more natural out-of-lab environment, Teixeira says. Also, participants were allowed to skip through commercials they didn't want to watch. They viewed ads in three product categories: confectionary (Skittles, Snickers, M&Ms, and others),... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
used to keeping certain items in your home. Or you may have healthy food options nearby your office, but not close enough to your home to grab a quick lunch. “Stock up on the food and beverage items you’ll need so that you can maintain... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details