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- 15 Mar 2024
- News
Hungry for Change
the mission of bringing healthier foods to the world,” explains Flynn. But that ambition quickly expanded as she began to research the grocery and packaged food industry. Flynn came to believe packaged food isn’t only a detriment to the... View Details
- 30 Jul 2019
- News
Turning Around Tesco
The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is... View Details
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
In a profile of Peet’s Coffee CEO David Burwick (MBA 1989), the East Bay Times details the company’s growth under his watch: Since 2013, annual sales have jumped from $395 million to almost $800 million, 70 new locations have been added, and the company began selling... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
forensic accounting, the ability to adapt to clients’ needs, especially on such an enormous scale, is crucial. He points to SecondBite’s relationship with Coles, one of Australia’s largest supermarket chains, which joined the food-reuse effort. The View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
entertaining," Walker said. Priceline.com, a consumer-to-business Web site launched in 1998, sells groceries using the same "name your price" scheme it uses to sell surplus airline tickets and hotel rooms to travelers. Online shoppers are... View Details
- 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 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
consumers and the grocery industry. An avid fly fisherman, McKenney loved the outdoors. “His second home, in Montana, was part of a large working cattle ranch, and at times my father was actively involved in running it,” his son William... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
while working as a stock boy at a Safeway grocery store to help pay his way through the University of Missouri. He received the School’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998, and one year later, OPM graduates honored Marshall by endowing... 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
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
process customers’ orders. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz first encountered the inefficiencies of traditional order fulfillment in 2000 while working at Webvan, an Internet-based grocery home-delivery service. “The company... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence
self-driving cars to robots mopping up spills at the grocery store. As computer systems increasingly perform tasks that people once did, the implications for business are enormous. Although more than 80 percent of executives believe AI... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Model T owners—and it was basically the last major innovation in gasoline retailing for more than 100 years, says Bryan Frist (MBA 2015). “The gas station was stuck in the 20th century.” That revelation led to a question: If you can get View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
coteaches the required MBA ten-session Social Enterprise course, has studied consumer patterns and attitudes regarding purchasing groceries in the inner city. As a doctoral student in marketing at the University of Arizona, Crockett wrote... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
order-fulfillment process at Amazon, which acquired the company for $775 million in 2012. Aguerrevere, who had founded a small-format grocery store chain in his native Venezuela, discussed the talk with Max Pedró (MBA 2002), his close... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 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 store that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
THE BOOK “Tom Witt [MBA 1987] originally told me the story of how his father had owned a small, family-run grocery store and successfully fought off a big, new competitor over the price of sugar. The new store trumpeted a big special: 49... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
money behind me, I'll be fine.") Describing GE as really not much different from the neighborhood grocery he patronized while growing up in Salem, Massachusetts, Welch said, "Business is a bunch of lucky calls, a bunch of bounces here and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Books
individual. Each person or family is sustained with “deep support” delivered via “federations” of enterprises and concierge-style “advocates” coordinating every need from grocery delivery to health care. Maintaining the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
pounds of food that had been prepared for customers in the catering, hotel, travel, and restaurant industries got stuck in the supply chain when the world seized up. That’s when Philip Behn (MBA 2005), CEO of Imperfect Foods, jumped into recovery mode. An online View Details