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- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Crafting Success
distinctive taste that would work well with food.” He founded Cobra in 1989, going door-to-door to introduce stores and restaurants to the brand and somehow turning “noes” into “yesses.” The first five years were the hardest: “...[T]here... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
Petrochemicals are all around us—from ubiquitous plastic packaging to the inconspicuous lining of your takeaway coffee cup, and in everyday products like soaps, deodorants, and toothpaste. But that will change, according to Matthew Perkins (MBA 2009). When industries... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
possible, and then either utilize that or store that CO2 somewhere. Our approach is what you call a solid sorbent-based approach. When we say sorbent, it's a carbon sponge, essentially. Sponge doesn't sound too technical, but that's kind... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: KFC’s Explosive Growth in China In China, Yum! Brands is opening a KFC store every day. But this is not the KFC known in America. A recent case study written by Professor David Bell and Agribusiness Program director Mary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
weekend, Holley laughs. “All four days,” he says. “My kids complain about how much we kayak. But I love it.” How to Kayak Like a Pro Find a great dealer. “You can walk into any big-box store right now and walk out with a $250 kayak, but... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
stumbled from day one and finally closed. It was a nightmare.” McCann can laugh now, but only because she “learned more from that one bakery that failed than from all the others that have since succeeded.” Today, House of Bread has sixteen locations in nine states,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
study that directly compares actual downloads of music files with store sales of CDs, covering the last half of 2002. “While downloads occurred on a vast scale during this period — 3 million simultaneous users shared 500 million files on... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- News
Meal-Delivery Startups Look for Winning Recipe
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
introduction in the early ’90s of low-fat cookies and other healthier snack foods under the SnackWell’s brand for Nabisco. In the first year, SnackWell’s grew to a $400 million business. Store managers had such a difficult time keeping... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
Michailidis says. “I studied with incredibly competent people and two of them became my business partners. We founded Pushpins while we were still at HBS.” The Pushpins application enables users to scan items in grocery stores and receive... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
travel stores to help the airline enhance customer satisfaction—provided insight on Mexico’s travel industry and, equally important, a new perspective on teamwork. “There were no designated leaders in the teams we were assigned to in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
understand. My first jobs were in retailing, on the finance side. Thirteen years after HBS, I had a midlife crisis. I was working for a soon-to-be defunct department store in Baltimore and knew it was time to get out. I left my job to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
with our own arms and legs.” With nearly 1,800 stores in 44 states and Ontario, Canada, the company and its franchisees employ about 80,000 workers and saw system-wide sales of nearly $4 billion in 2013. “Serving people is the most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos of Japan. Both lead hugely... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
Australia’s largest supermarket chains, as evidence of success. The grocery giant makes weekly food donations from 550 of its stores and enjoys significant employee engagement. “What we do with Coles is the best example in Australia—and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It... View Details