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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
based on their best efforts to forecast customer needs. With new technologies such as online grocery scanners, companies can better monitor consumer behavior, allowing them to anticipate needs more accurately and even create new products... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 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 store to pack reusable shopping... 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
- 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 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
filming on location in Lima, Peru. In the School’s Educational Technology Services group, a team of four works with the faculty to create approximately six multimedia cases a year, including the recent “Eataly: Reimagining the Grocery... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 stores at a U.S. base... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) We all wait in lines—at the grocery store, the bank, or a ticket booth, or on hold to speak to a customer service rep about your cable bill. “By one estimate,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
ways. Some people might be more willing to give at a grocery store when they ask you to donate at the checkout counter. Other people might not give there but instead respond to a letter or email request. I think, rather than asking what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
morning, then spent the rest of the day getting some exercise and catching up on Only Murders in the Building. For her part, Carbonell took a Pilates class and did some grocery shopping. (“Not having to go to Trader Joe’s on a weekend is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) Before his 14th birthday, Steven Rogers (MBA '85) was already learning a lot about business. He had delivered newspapers and milk in his Southside Chicago neighborhood, bused tables at a downtown hotel, distributed dentures for a group of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
distribution center that is quick and low-cost to set up, inexpensive to operate, and easy to change anywhere in the world. An MIT-trained mechanical engineer, Mountz encountered inefficiencies in order fulfillment while working at an Internet-based View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 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... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- News
Changing of the Guard at Tesco
chain. Yet the same was true for Lewis, who came to Tesco from Unilever. “I remember people said that I wasn’t a retailer,” he told the Times of London. “I hadn’t been in grocery or a chief executive before, but being a chief executive is... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
Australia’s largest supermarket chains, as evidence of success. The grocery giant makes weekly food donations from 550 of its stores and enjoys significant employee engagement. “What we do with Coles is the best example in Australia—and... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
that hunger, Sun & Swell was born in 2016. “We started with the mission of bringing healthier foods to the world,” says Flynn. But that goal quickly expanded as she began to research the grocery and packaged food industry. Packaged food... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
Michailidis says. “I studied with incredibly competent people and two of them became my business partners. We founded Pushpins while we were still at HBS.” The Pushpins application enables users to scan items in grocery stores and receive... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
The morning after one such grocery trip, I decided to crowdsource the money I didn’t have from my sixth-grade peers to get our teacher an end-of-year thank-you gift. This was my moment of clarity. The more my agency grew, the less the... View Details
- 15 Mar 2024
- News
Hungry for Change
As a management consultant at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) often worked with clients in the packaged food industry. She saw customers asking for healthier and more sustainable foods, and she herself was seeking better options. From that hunger, Sun & Swell was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
bland presentations have led most people to associate ready-made meals with “sacrifice and denial.” With health-care advocates from the Mayo Clinic to Michelle Obama encouraging Americans to shop the perimeter of the grocery store—where... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos