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- 19 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Exploring the World of Retail as an Intern at Walmart
marketing would be fun, while other days I wanted to stay closer to my strategy background. I knew I wanted some blend of strategic thinking and quantitative analysis. As a result, I opted to apply to a variety of roles at large retailers and consumer View Details
- Profile
Joseph Abel
electricity from the sun,” Joe explains, “but there’s a huge up-front cost.” To overcome the obstacle, Sungevity packages panel-installation and financing together, offering customers a solar-energy purchase similar to a lease on a car.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to mourn the loss of Myra Kraft, who succumbed to cancer in July. While Bob Kraft's remarkable successes in the paper and packaging business, as a sports team owner, and as a philanthropist have made him a beloved figure in the Boston... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Where Are They Now?
wouldn’t tell: “It’s as jealously guarded as the Coke formula.”) A memorable case-method teacher, Schlesinger acknowledges, “The vast majority of the issues I confront are not organized into the neat 80-minute packages we discussed at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
a package delivered in a week was fast. Today, it’s not uncommon to have products delivered within hours. And in the future they are going to want more than a thud at the doorstep. They are going to want a person to go through the door to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
be part of GE just as it’s relocating its headquarters to Boston.” Graham Fairbairn (MBA 2018) Hometown: Sydney, Australia Destination: General Mills, Minneapolis “I come from a consumer packaged goods background and have had the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Taylor Wiegele
worked at Clorox where he collaborated with designers on packaging development and retail displays. "I really loved how you could manipulate materials and turn them into beautiful things you would want to buy," Taylor says.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
in a service business, selling the plan is paramount to everything else.” Specific actions of regaining employee trust included eliminating severance packages for management, updating an archaic scheduling system, and asking designer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
FedEx for shipping some of their products, driving up demand from three packages a day to thirty. It was enough to save the company. FedEx’s strategy in these early years was simple: deliver time-sensitive View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
three kids. Mindful of his relative ignorance of the niche business, Holley immersed himself. He learned all about the thermoforming process (which uses heat-formed plastic instead of fiberglass) that Eddyline pioneered, and he occasionally helped out with shipping and... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
ambitious $825 billion economic stimulus package was working its way through Congress. The rapidly deteriorating jobs picture heightened the sense of urgency to act. Employers shed more jobs in 2008 than in any year since 1945. Against... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
replace it? Alvarez floats one possibility: Every supermarket could make meat on premise and then package and sell it. (The meat is simply muscle and fat cells, which are replicated to build the tissue we eat.) A supply like that would... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
two thousand copies of the twenty thousand print run were sold, enough to cover production costs. Since then, sales have been strong. “By wrapping the anti-violence message in a package of beautiful songs by great female artists, we were... View Details
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Allen Yang
economics studies. But PepsiCo drew him into an entirely new world—consumer packaged goods—and Yipit gave him the unusual opportunity to learn how to code. Capturing what's great about business HBS expanded Allen's opportunities for... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
provisions that made them difficult to compare, even for economic man, let alone for average consumers who may also have had too little self-control in their desire for a home and a mortgage. The resulting mortgages were then packaged in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
everywhere. For publishing houses, content is out of control." The true secret of the Internet, said Schmidt-Holtz, is the focus on the individual. "Media companies have to react to this fact and offer the customer new packages... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup
startup, and their successful experience bringing an HBS intern into their Business Intelligence team. Meet Mori Mori is a technology company focused on innovations in the food, agriculture, and packaging industries. Mori’s proprietary... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
giveaway, whether tucked into products at the factory by wholesalers or inserted into packaged goods by retailers. Traveling salesmen had the opportunity to distribute trade cards to individual customers, general stores, retailers, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
the scenes for a while. Almost everyone I know in the food packaging and grocery industry is a health nut. People are becoming more aware of their health and have a growing desire to find a way to eat and feel better. That will change... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
ten times larger than what it was in 1980. While the sums involved are clearly staggering, the compensation packages that provide this wealth are poorly understood, according to HBS associate professor Brian J. Hall. Often, Hall believes,... View Details