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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
you. Paul Conforti (MBA 1997) was a 1997 quarterfinalist with classmates Kim Moore and Kristen Krzyzewski for Finale, an upscale restaurant with a focus on desserts. “I envisioned the path to be a little different,” Conforti confesses....
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he always keeps his eye out for a...
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- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at...
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by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
famed chef Raymond Thuilier, at l’Oustau de Baumanière, in Provence. Everything from Thuilier’s perfectionism to the produce grown in his own gardens inspired Puck: “I thought, I want to have a restaurant like he has.” Of course, he would...
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Christine Speer Lejeune
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
swipe of a credit card. “Automated retail sounds better,” suggests Gregg Kaplan (MBA 1997). Recruited by McDonald’s to help start new businesses within the fast-food giant, in 2002 Kaplan oversaw the installation of six kiosks in View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
guarantee a reliable base of customers during the workday, he says. In the stand-alone locations, Dozie is in the unusual position of teaching his customers to linger. “In Nigeria, people don’t have a lot of places to go outside of a View Details
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
simple and often logical but difficult to predict. Jake Kirsch ‘11, VP Innovation, ABinBev Covid had a massive effect on our business. Fifteen percent of our business is in bars and restaurants and they were effectively closed. Some new...
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- 08 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights
with HBS founders on campus. For example, this was a run-in with Leslie Means (MBA 2015), Founder & CEO of Anomalie and Nick Alexander, Founder & CEO of Yoshi (MBA 2015); we then ended up having dinner at Leslie’s favorite Harvard Square View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Center's Roof Terrace Restaurant on Friday evening. Ferguson discussed the changing nature and role of leadership today, and illustrated his talk with an insider's view of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. “Alan was by no means...
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- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
passion she'd had since childhood: food. "We always sat together at the table for dinner," she says. In her adulthood, "I used cooking to recreate that warmth and connect with friends." Although "going to culinary school and working in a View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
“It’s been a challenge that I am enjoying and learning so much from every day.” Han explains that her parents, Rachel and Richard Han, were early franchisees of Wendy’s in South Korea in the 1990s and learned to thrive in the fast-food, fast-casual View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
her for a small chain of upscale restaurants run by Kansas-based Gilbert-Robinson, Inc. After two years as vice president of marketing, she returned to Minneapolis to work at an ad agency and to do some independent consulting. In 1998,...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
restaurants in the Los Angeles area. But after 25 years, the business went bust, and she relocated the family to her native Mexico when the Salas brothers were 12 years old. It’s a fitting origin story for Camino Financial, an online...
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- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
if I own a restaurant, I don’t really know what 20 or 50 knots mean for me.” But ClimaCell could, say, let the restaurant know that the bad weather means fewer customers, and therefore fewer staff are needed. Elkabetz concedes that many...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
not only great to see everybody for the first time in a long time, but there was a strong sense of community. It was also good to just see people out and about in Chinatown. And the restaurant was busy. It felt like things are getting...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
first T-shirt is reserved for him.” Matthew “My family has a restaurant business throughout the Pacific Northwest. Initially, my father wanted me to come home to help run that after graduation, but since I described the business to him,...
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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
discs) Restaurants (grocer's takeout) Steel production (minimills) Telephone-long distance (Internet telephony) Are some industries more vulnerable to this threat than others? There are some industries, or at least parts of them, that I...
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Richard Lou
Like many children who grow up with family-owned businesses, Richard Lou was expected to make his contribution at an early age. With three restaurants in Staten Island and Manhattan, Richard paid his dues, "back of house" with...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
newsletter advertising can be extended to many industries: hotels or airlines can embed ads for attractions near featured destinations or travel accessories, entertainment venues can embed ads for local restaurants and bars, retailers...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
of several recent cases of Hollywood studios suing Bollywood producers for plagiarism? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711017-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711018-PDF-ENG View Details
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Sean Silverthorne