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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
THOMAS: A career switch from high tech to the restaurant biz calls on every bit of HBS know-how. Photo Courtesy Scherrer As a teen, Laurie Thomas (MBA ’93) didn’t devote her summers to extracurricular activities. Instead, the Wisconsin native worked, usually at her... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Wondering what to get the HBSer in your life this year? In the holiday spirit, we're highlighting a few alumni-led companies and ideas that you may not know about. Since roughly 1 in 6 alumni work in manufacturing, high tech, retail, and consumer products, there are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
what’s fueling the greens. Southwest Airlines would be red on food service. But Southwest doesn’t pay much attention to that, because getting better at food service would slow its turnaround time, which is a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
entrepreneurial course development. The Management of New Enterprises course of 1947 was joined in the 1950s by Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SME), taught by Frank Tucker and W.A. Hosmer. In 1970, MNE essentially merged with SME and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2013
- News
'Living Legend' Reifer Reflects on Life's Journey
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
becoming CEO of Slim Jim manufacturer GoodMark Foods, this book shares the stories and lessons learned of an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary success by believing in himself. Despite nearly losing his job at General Mills several... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
the corner store, and helped his mother, a single parent of four, sell furniture at weekend flea markets. Although his family was "periodically on welfare" and food stamps were a regular part of life, Rogers describes his upbringing with... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
A Problem Shared Is a Company Aligned
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
ConAgra CEO Gary Rodkin to Retire in May
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Burger Art
Talk about thinking outside the box! Since time immemorial, Americans have slapped and shaken ketchup bottles at their peril, hoping the red stuff would mostly wind up on their burgers and not in their laps. Well, that's all so yesterday, shoppers, thanks largely to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
impressive, its existence also raises many questions. What are consumers really buying when they buy a perfume, or face cream, or lipstick? Scents which last a few hours or face creams that can’t be seen once applied are neither straightforwardly utilitarian products,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
strike a balance between private label and manufacturer brands, and reemphasize food products instead of venturing too far into nonfood items. Although they foresee a fierce battle among retailing Goliaths,... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
industry. The plan’s design was guided by several key outcomes: saving jobs; protecting businesses with liquidity and fiscal incentives; building tech infrastructure to support work-from-home initiatives; providing basic food and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
conditions under which such systems were or were not beneficial to the manufacturer.” Interviewing leading VMI-experienced manufacturers and retailers, Kulp identified information transfer as a potential trouble spot. Her insights were... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
IPA Meets IPO
KOCH: Putting shares of the company in the hands of the people who really believe in its product. Lots of business executives tout the importance of focusing on the customer. But craft brewmeister Jim Koch (MBA 1974), founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company and... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
The Steve Jobs of Beer
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
experiment with seaweed and asked kelp farmers if he could buy some. “They said, ‘Sure, but what are you going to do with it?’ ” Perkins recalls. “Then I realized there was no infrastructure to store it or process it.” Further downstream, he found that View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
Rounding out Marketing's agenda are multifaceted research projects. Professor Walter J. Salmon is looking at the costs and benefits of product variety for retailers and manufacturers as part of a joint project with the View Details