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- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
to do is work on is following a phased plan. And there are three phases to the plan. Phase one was fixing the fundamentals of the business, which are making sure you're operating well, making sure you got high-quality food and system.... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man coordinates a food drive to benefit the people in his community. As a local leader in the Robin Hood Army, a nonprofit volunteer organization, he’s on the front... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
What I Do: Clare Reichenbach (AMP 185, 2013)
pleasure and purpose aspects of the organization are reconciled in a thoughtful way. If we’re having amazing events to showcase the best of American food, in the same breath we should be talking about what we mean by an equitable View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
Idea Village, an anchor organization for the emerging entrepreneurial movement in New Orleans, Markowitz (MBA 2003) struggled to find a decent job there. With an HBS degree and a background in corporate finance, she seemed overqualified... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
new ways to support the community. In early March, the organization had to close all of their on-site programs and figure out how they could continue to help the community’s vulnerable populations, especially school-aged children,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
D. Wayne Calloway
Calloway is credited with streamlining PepsiCo’s organization, empowering its employees at all levels, and generating substantial growth. Under his leadership, Calloway organized PepsiCo into three major business units: soft drinks, snack... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Following the Flow of Aid
Courtesy Mercy Corps Courtesy Mercy Corps In April, Mercy Corps CEO Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002) paid a visit to Poland to see firsthand the plight of Ukrainian people fleeing their country. The humanitarian aid organization that... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. I had an opportunity to speak with Catherine D’Amato, GBFB’s CEO, and I was incredibly impressed with the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
John P. Mackey
Through a series of acquisitions, Mackey transformed Whole Foods from a small, niche player in the grocery retail business into a major enterprise. In many ways, Mackey and Whole Foods have brought View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Clubs News Clubs News Boston Alumni Find Leadership Inspiration in Project Impact Series Hunger and food insecurity. Racial justice. Youth and education. These issues have served as the central organizing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
complete. Thomas had taken the organization through Chapter 11, sold off one of the businesses, and bought out Hearon’s share of the business. Six years later, as CEO of Nice Ventures, Thomas oversees management of Rose Pistola, Rose’s... View Details
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
"exhortation." He sees many of these things in each of several organizations—including Whole Foods Markets, W. L. Gore, and Google—that he examines in some depth. These organizations share some... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Cherian Kurien
people to deliver strong results in a responsible and sustainable manner, to lead businesses to engage with local communities that build lasting and meaningful relationships, and to lead organizations that pioneer positive change in the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
gained hands-on, global experience in January 2016 by collaborating for eight days on projects with businesses in 15 emerging markets and in Boston. The immersion in São Paulo was organized by HBS’s Global Experience Office and by the... View Details
- May 1998 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Taco Bell Inc. (1983-1994)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Dave DeLong
Details the actions of John Martin, newly named CEO, as he leads Taco Bell through a decade of incremental and radical changes. By the end of the case, total system sales within Taco Bell, a Mexican style fast-food restaurant chain and a division of PepsiCo, have grown... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Transformation; Economic Growth; Food; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico
Applegate, Lynda M., Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Dave DeLong. "Taco Bell Inc. (1983-1994)." Harvard Business School Case 398-129, May 1998. (Revised October 2001.)
- January 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Lagunitas Brewing Company
By: Joshua Margolis, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
The CEO of a California-based craft brewery manages new partnership with—and potential acquisition by—industry giant Heineken. View Details
Keywords: Culture; Non-profit; International; Organizational Behavior; Food; Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Management; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Margolis, Joshua, Allison Ciechanover, and Jeff Huizinga. "Lagunitas Brewing Company." Harvard Business School Case 418-017, January 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
assumption that a lower ratio of CEO to average compensation has a beneficial effect on an organization's performance. Presumably, the thinking is that greater equity in pay leads to a healthier culture (for example, in organizations like... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
benefits to part-time workers. We have a consulting firm poll our workers every year to find out how they feel about the company, and they've told us that they've never seen such a positive response in an organization of this size — the... View Details