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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
adopted community, talking to everyone who came into Caravia Fresh Foods, the specialty grocery and deli owned by Ryan Cognetti—maker of that fateful chicken sandwich—and his family. Having served on multiple political campaigns, she... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
earlier, a surprisingly elegant parking structure. It took several years and complicated financing, but on June 5, 2013, Cummings watched as hundreds of Detroiters—black and white, rich and poor—gathered in front of the new grocery store.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
speaking with a worker at the BulkWhiz warehouse. Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Rashad: I am Amira Rashad. I am founder and CEO of BulkWhiz, an online bulk grocery platform based out of Dubai in the UAE and covering the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
discussed his thoughts on the current business environment and how deals get done with HBS Working Knowledge. Julia Hanna: Talk a little about what you mean by "negotiauctions." Guhan Subramanian: If you put aside fixed-price mechanisms, such as buying... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
KindredHarvard Business School Case 513-052 Patrick Coveney, CEO of Greencore, one of the top producers of private label prepared foods sold through UK grocery retailers, was assessing Greencore's growth options. Growth potential was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
contention in the family because my brother, Chuck, being one year younger, kept getting left out of these things. He never had a job. Well, later on, he would sack at the grocery store with me. I still have out here, a nice set of... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
widely, and research shows that it's often tough to increase profits by investing abroad. A new study of the grocery retail industry reveals that with a few exceptions globalization's benefits have not accrued to retailers. Local... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Goodwin explains: “If [the lettuce] is grown in Massachusetts, I can put it on [a grocery store’s] dock at the same price or lower than if you grow it in California and truck it across the country. And so I get all that benefit of the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
grocery and dry goods, such as canned foods and boxed breakfast cereals. It was not until after World War II that the majority of American grocers adopted self-service to meat and produce sections. Business historians have explored the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
for “ruffling some feathers” in the process. Recruited to a Fortune 500 grocery and pharmacy retailer after climbing to Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company’s retail practice, she successfully grew their high-margin yet highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases,... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
born and raised in Portuguese Mozambique, where his parents opened a grocery store. My mom is Shanghainese and grew up in Hong Kong. They both came to the US for college. My grandmother never went to high school and was part of the last... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
sometimes bends the truth to its advantage. Ayr: If you just ask somebody a question about food, and what their perception is and then the reality of the answer. And in our industry that gap is just so large and it’s deliberate, it’s created that way. You go to buy... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
involved in the decision of whether or not to install refrigerator doors in the grocery section of its stores. While the energy savings and reduced carbon emissions are relatively clear and easy to measure, the impact on customers and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also meet often with international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
temporarily revamped its business model to distribute emergency food bags, family resource and learning kits, and book bags each week. Working in a community with sparse e-learning options and grocery stores that is suffering from heavy... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details