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- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
are you going to with this money?’ He said, ‘I’m hungry and I’m going to buy food for my family because they’re hungry too, and I’m going to save some of it so we don’t get hungry again.’” The man’s response dovetails beautifully with... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
treasurer. Last fall, the two brothers consolidated stock in the business between them after buying out the stakes of other family members. “I concentrate on the overall experience of our business with special attention to the retail areas. Rick focuses on the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch
years later, it's clear that she made the right choice. As a director of the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company and managing partner of McKinsey Southeast United States, Karch has become an expert on numerous business topics, such as retailing, mass merchandising,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
everything from electronics and sporting goods to food and drugs. Recently, with Goodrich focusing increasingly on the aerospace industry, Price oversaw the leveraged buyout of his division and bid farewell to Goodrich last spring. Now,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
Turkish novelist. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, because I loved the documentary film Food, Inc. and would like to learn more about where our food comes from. Better by Atul Gawande, because it’s about improvement in an... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
A Problem Shared Is a Company Aligned
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
something well, you’re not just looking at a Kuwaiti investor or a regional investor—it’s a global scene.” —Faisal Al-Hamad (MBA 2005), discussing the $170 million acquisition of Kuwaiti online food delivery service Talabat by Germany’s... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers in wealth-creating value chains... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Steve Easterbrook, was named president and CEO, and the turnaround was on. Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) had left Kraft Foods in September 2015, when he connected with Easterbrook, who was looking for someone to help him fine-tune his... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Who's actually putting those groceries on the shelves still and who's driving the truck to get that food that gets put on those grocery shelves? It's the working class. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
have their eye on the prime rib too? Once they have learned to manufacture your product, they are in a much better position to move up the food chain into manufacturing and designing more sophisticated components and subsystems and,... View Details
- 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
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
food products, he had traveled frequently on business to the USSR and other Central and East European countries in the Soviet Bloc, thus gaining a knowledge of Soviet-style commerce few other Westerners could claim. Between 1985 and 1992,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
passed away. “In everything I had been doing in Detroit, Max was my partner in a literal sense or a spiritual sense, and a lot of the joy of doing stuff here evaporated when he died,” Cummings says, as we tour the city Fisher helped shape. Cummings was done with... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
requiring employers to verify the legal status of workers, deporting illegals who are in jail, and denying illegals taxpayer-funded benefits such as welfare, free education, and food stamps. He says that Edwards lies about his record on... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
of San Diego’s annual holiday party took place at the home of Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) and his wife Diane Weiss-Wisdom in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, on December 7th. With a Roaring 20s speakeasy theme, guests enjoyed 1920s accessories, a live jazz quartet, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley