Food Retail Franchising - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2001
News

Steven Rogers

the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Career Coach

Connie Walsh

services for a healthcare NFP called Helping Hands. Prior to Staples, Connie worked in strategic marketing and brand management at Harvard Business School, Kraft Foods and Johnson & Johnson. Connie also spent two years at a start-up... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Retail; Retail; Retail

11 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: HelloFresh

genuine passion for food and a very customer-centric mindset. What recruiting tactics have you found most successful in engaging with students and/or alumni at HBS?On-campus interviews is what we find most successful. We love investing... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

forge a partnership with another set of customers. Like companies in many industries, Mobil's immediate customers were independent wholesalers and retailers. Franchised retailers purchased gasoline and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

25 Apr 2016
News

Trail Blazer

Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why McMinn, founder and chair of the Napa... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Over just a few months, the United States stock market plunged almost 20 percent—then in one day rebounded a record 1,000 points. 2018 seemed just that kind of year in business: restless, surging, full of surprises. Big-name retailers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

Andrew Miller (MBA 1988), writer and coauthor, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN Nick Taranto Photo courtesy of Nick Taranto "We will see more investment in the tech-enabled food space. Many investors and entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade

Profile

Mallika Ahluwalia

school system, Mallika accepted her first international development challenge. Working in a small team, Mallika helped run a United Nations World Food Program project in Namibia that fed 90,000 AIDS-affected orphans. "I got closely... View Details

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

silk and apply it to food, creating natural protection that slows spoiling and keeps food fresher for longer. Products can be integrated at any time from farm to shelf, allowing food producers, processors,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Latin America - Global Activities 2021

at Good Foods Group, is the type of leader who believes in constant learning—from colleagues and mentors to her professors and classmates in the HBS Executive Education program in which she participated, Program for Leadership Development... View Details

17 May 2017
News

Nisa Godrej Takes Over

India, Deepika Warrier is the vice-president for the company’s nutrition category. Hindustan Unilever, the country’s largest consumer goods maker, has two women in its executive team. Geetu Verma heads its foods division and Priya Nair is... View Details

May 1994 (Revised July 1995)
Case

Taco Bell--1994

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Taco Bell CEO, John Martin, boldly proclaims a growth goal of 200,000 points of access by the year 2000 (the company had approximately 3,600 in 1991). To realize such growth, Martin embraces a philosophy of continual change. The implications for Taco Bell are dramatic... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Food; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Goals and Objectives; Change Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Communication; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

Heinz, of the famous food company; Marshall Field, the Chicago retailer; Estée Lauder, who created one of the largest cosmetics companies in the world; Howard Schultz, of Starbucks Coffee Company; and Michael Dell, of Dell Computer... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2021
News

Equal Partner

working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Companies you describe as crippled by denial include the supermarket chain A&P, the retail conglomerate Sears, and the short-lived delivery experiment Webvan. How did these companies succumb to denial? A: To paraphrase Tolstoy, every... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Retail; Retail

30 Jan 2006
HBS Case

The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand

marketing his work, sometimes investing his own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. Whatever the genre (he has also published romance novels, science... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

01 Dec 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller

things,” says Archie Norman (MBA 1979). “The genesis of any turnaround is facing into the unvarnished truth.” A somewhat unwilling veteran of doing “the hard things,” Norman became chairman of 133-year-old British retailer Marks & Spencer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2016
News

Case Study: On the Table

logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups and food companies are... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

DiRomualdo spent four years in the Navy as an aviation reconnaissance officer during the Vietnam War before earning his MBA. He then worked for several firms, most notably Hickory Farms, the faltering specialty foods company that he... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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