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  • 17 Jul 2020
  • News

Support System

elements that give shea butter its gold status in Africa. “The next time you’re at the grocery store or a beauty store, flip over one of the containers that says ‘shea butter’ on the front,” says Akuete. “A... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Savings and Loam

Illustration by James Steinberg Illustration by James Steinberg Picture today’s conscious consumer pulling on a fresh organic cotton tee shirt, then driving their hybrid or electric vehicle to the grocery View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

see her through kindergarten. Now she’s in high school. What was your first job? Grocery store cashier, at 14. It made me want to go to college. Who inspires you? Lance Armstrong. He’s really raised cancer... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

As a boy growing up in Milwaukee, Herbert H. Kohl (MBA '58) spent afternoons and weekends restocking shelves in his immigrant parents' grocery store. It was good training for Kohl, who joined the family business after graduating from HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

a career as a professor. He started a Ph.D. program in medieval and Renaissance history at the University of Virginia before leaving to enlist in the U.S. Navy. After several years of running grocery and specialty View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Case Study: Sneak Peak

to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course... View Details
Keywords: Whole Foods; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Turning Point: Power Outlet

walked over to my computer and created a Facebook group called Moms of Black Boys (MOBB) United. I sent invitations to 30 friends. Five minutes later the 30 had grown to 150. In an hour it was 500. When I was at the grocery View Details
  • 25 Jul 2012
  • News

Movie Magic

Kaplan: "Automated retail" dispenses movie magic. Photo courtesy Gregg Kaplan/Redbox If you’ve seen one at your local US grocery store, you know that “vending machine” is an inadequate description for Redbox, the sleek, red (of course)... View Details
Keywords: vending machines; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores; General Merchandise Stores
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

from the Indian state of Gujarat; he was born in Pretoria, South Africa, where his family ran a small chain of grocery stores and butcher shops. What wealth the family had built up, however, was expropriated... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

one-cup feedings per day costs $20.95 — more than most grocery brands but a manageable sum for customers who value the convenience of automatic shipments that make taking care of the family dog as easy as peeling the top off a SmartPak.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

A Market-Based Prescription

physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

Milwaukee area cope with the lack of large grocery stores in their neighborhoods. "Retailers tend to think that everyone who lives in the inner city is poor," he says, "but that simply isn't true. The... View Details
Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

case and why? “One case that stands out is the case on Daily Table from my second-year retailing class. I was already exploring mission-driven food organizations at that point and had the opportunity to work with Daily Table during my first year at HBS. Daily Table is... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2016
  • News

Again in a Great City

earlier, a surprisingly elegant parking structure. It took several years and complicated financing, but on June 5, 2013, Cummings watched as hundreds of Detroiters—black and white, rich and poor—gathered in front of the new grocery store.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
  • 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

beauty care routines, using fewer plastic items in our own beauty care routines or buying more from farmer's markets or local stores that don't use as much plastic. It's basically for us meant a shift in how we think about helping people... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown

to handle daily chores like picking up dry cleaning, watering plants, grocery shopping, and making their beds. Doorman morphed into Hello Alfred, which went on to win the School’s New Venture Competition in 2014 and then, later that year,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill
  • 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

contention in the family because my brother, Chuck, being one year younger, kept getting left out of these things. He never had a job. Well, later on, he would sack at the grocery store with me. I still have... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family

York Times Company, for example)-and also the most vulnerable (witness Canada's Steinberg's grocery store chain, which succumbed to family infighting). Howard H. Stevenson, HBS's Sarofim-Rock Professor of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

and a culture that values employees above all and empowers them to excel. Unlike its competitors, Dreyer’s has always insisted on delivering ice cream to grocery stores with its own trucks and drivers to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
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