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  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

your ultimate goal, then you can try to think through: Where might you make investments? Where might you make decisions? Where might you prioritize one constituency over another? Because you’re clear about what it is that you as an View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 01 Aug 2002
  • News

Wine Country Reunion

accomplishments. Highlights included a vineyard tour, winetastings, fine dining, and a reception at the home of Peggy and Timm Crull. Pictured above are reunion organizers Joe Fitzpatrick, Don Moffitt, and Timm Crull, who chaired the... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2016
  • News

Trail Blazer

the state’s Office of Traffic Safety. But things never really got rolling until McMinn became involved in 2008 and rallied 34 local organizations that now occupy the coalition’s board of directors. “People don’t realize the power they... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development

primarily run an eight-acre urban farm called D-town Farm. They also ventured to create a brick-and-mortar store called the Detroit Food Commons, centered on creating greater access to healthy foods and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

    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
    • 07 Nov 2016
    • News

    The Business of Saving Old Buildings

    setting up a nonprofit foundation to do recycling of older buildings, and so I started the Architecture Heritage Foundation and was asked by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to come up with what they could do with the surplus wholesale View Details
    • 09 Nov 2016
    • News

    The Seeds of Learning

    Adam Zmick (MBA 2011) is cofounder of Gardeneers, an environmental education organization based in Chicago, Illinois. In this interview, he explains the connections between learning about food and children’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
    • 30 Mar 2022
    • News

    Giving Hope and Comfort

    items—the soap and the shampoo—that were most prized by the organizations that received the donations. A social worker from Catholic Charities who called Feingold to thank him explained that few people think to donate such expensive... View Details
    • March 2007 (Revised April 2007)
    • Case

    McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and Jessica Droste Yagan
    McDonald's seeks to learn from a successful response to Greenpeace's Amazon deforestation campaign in order to make its supply chain more socially and environmentally responsible. View Details
    Keywords: Food; Supply Chain Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 11 Sep 2018
    • News

    Bringing Government Up to Code

    the foundations of our social safety net—making it easier, for example, for people to apply for food assistance or for probation officers to communicate with their parolees. On today's episode of Skydeck, Ingersoll talks with contributor... 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
    Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places
    • 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; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 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
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    • 23 Apr 2014
    • HBS Case

    Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

    make "vapes" attractive to children. Some states and cities responded with restrictions on sales and advertising, and, in April, the Financial Times reported that the World Health Organization will call for e-cigarettes to be... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage
    • 02 Dec 2010
    • News

    Panda Success

    Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places
    • 29 Aug 2024
    • News

    A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

    According to Forbes, the region’s annual loss in food supplies represents 6 percent of the global total. Diferente rescues organic food seen as "imperfect" by the traditional... View Details
    • 03 Jun 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

    The more thoughtful of them provide a primer on applying the concept. Deborah Nixon's comment echoed several others when she said the idea has been around a long time in other forms, by other names. "The larger an organization... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
    • 20 Nov 2017
    • News

    Finding Common Ground

    only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in the background. CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together, to take on big, complex issues,... View Details
    • 05 Aug 2015
    • News

    Nourishing the Next Generation

    says. Today, California-based Chefables prepares more than 30,000 fresh, from-scratch, and mostly organic meals: think vegetable chow mein, edamame hummus, chicken shawarma, and whole-grain pastas shaped like bunnies or bears—a day for... View Details