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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)
A self-described SOB — son of the boss — Bill Dunaway grew up working in his father’s pharmacy in Marietta, Georgia, a town of 61,000 outside Atlanta. After expanding the business to a chain of 18 drug stores, Dunaway sold the operation in 1989 and opened the 1848... View Details
- Portrait Project
Josh Solera
Two hours after completing a grueling lunch shift, I tended to an empty barbeque restaurant – slicing lemons, arranging ketchups, refilling salt shakers – doing my best to bide the time and not worry about college. The phone rang – a... View Details
- 20 Sep – 02 Oct 2018
- HBS Alumni Events
HBS Alumnae Circles Bay Area Open Houses
HBS Alumnae Circles are taking new members - are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of Boston-area casual vegetarian... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
and most people weren’t prepared for a recession. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- Portrait Project
Christine Cuoco
brother's dream to open a thriving restaurant even if business-school training warns of slim odds of success. Take shoe-making classes and design, market, and sell a line of fun and trendy, but shockingly comfortable, footwear. Find my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
A Plastic Fantastic Friendship
avant-garde artists of the 20th century, a man who clipped coupons for restaurant specials while giving away an art collection valued in the millions." Morse and his wife, Eleanor, bought their first Dalí, Daddy Longlegs of the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
America small-business owners moved quickly when COVID-19 started shuttering shops in March. Fine dining restaurants shifted to takeout. Book shops introduced curbside pickup. Gyms offered classes online. Business owners, it seemed, just... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alpha Mengistu
Make a home where I am, and make others feel at home. Growing up Ethiopian in America, I was suspended between realities. An outsider in suburbia, yet an unmistakable American on visits to Ethiopia, I felt at home nowhere. Almost. Sitting in my grandmother's Ethiopian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
spice. Rumi Spice saffron is now in top restaurant kitchens, on the shelves at luxury grocers, and in the recipes of meal-delivery company Blue Apron. Grow-Trees Cofounders and directors Pradip Shah (MBA 1981) and his son, Karan Shah (MBA... View Details
- Profile
Giuseppe Morgana
year at Boston University, and I now play for the HBS Blades club team. Also, my father has his own pizzeria in New Jersey. What I learned through assisting my father and his experience running a restaurant since 1980, combined with my... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971
telecommunications industries. He then launched a more down-to-earth venture: Lovells at Lake Forest, a restaurant outside Chicago. Lovell is a sought-after expert on space, education, and science, and he speaks internationally. In 2003,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)
Ron Shaich’s (MBA 1978) first venture, a cookie shop in downtown Boston, evolved into Au Bon Pain. His latest—Panera Cares—allows customers to pay only what they can afford at the popular restaurants he owns, Panera Bread. There’s a box... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
Program and provided one-on-one virtual coaching. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Peru
restaurants china). Search tips: use concise keywords. Go to "Analysis" section for full industry reports. Also helpful: the "Consumer Lifestyles in X" reports ("Consumer Lifestyles in China")... View Details
- 19 Nov 2020
- News
How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain
Photo courtesy of Panera Bread Photo courtesy of Panera Bread As the CEO of Panera Bread Co, Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) was intent on finding ways to make sure the company’s workers weren’t left behind during the pandemic. The company invited its furloughed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni Connections
April. 4 Alumni from the MBA Classes of 2002–2016 at the Wilshire Restaurant in Santa Monica, CA, in March. Finalists in the New Venture Competition were on the HBS campus in April to give their pitches to a panel of judges. This is the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ginger Jiang
Our small group was eating dinner at a restaurant in downtown Siem Reap, Cambodia, when the live music suddenly stopped: The drummer of the band had had a seizure. It was in this awful silence – and in the chaos that followed – when I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
a product’s effectiveness. THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin THE WAY FORWARD... View Details