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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a pitstop at fast food drive-through, a lunchtime burrito bowl, or a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
States, complete with fast-food chains and high-end malls. It’s a long way from our stay in the Zapotec villages. The companies we visit — Sealed Air, Femsa (Mexico’s largest beverage company), and ALFA — demonstrate the diversity and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
Steve Silk (MBA 1978), shown here with his Smith Brothers actors, is a master at fashioning turnarounds. SILK & HIS BROS: "Iconic brands like Smith Brothers get instantaneous consumer and media respect." Photos courtesy of Smith Brothers Adorning boxes of "Smith Bros"... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers devoted to their four-footed... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
Selena Cuffe On a trip to South Africa in 2005, Selena Cuffe (MBA 2003) happened across an advertisement promoting the first Soweto Wine Festival. Cuffe, the director of an exchange-student nonprofit, didn't know a lot about wine. Yet the event sounded so intriguing,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
READY TO ROLL: (from left) Singer, Gerald, Baker, and Alaoui. Photo Courtesy of MBAxAmerica On or about Independence Day, July 4, four HBS students will pile into a rented RV and set out to discover America. No, this is not a case of Kerouac-inspired wanderlust or a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s history—from corporate parent... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of Boston-area casual vegetarian... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA 2008) when he cofounded Kaizen... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
Kraft to Be Acquired by Brazil’s 3G Capital
- 05 Jul 2014
- News
The Power of the Pub
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
For Clover CEO, openness is first
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear grape spirit of South America .the fastest-growing spirit in the... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- News
Sam Adams: Now (finally) in a can
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo courtesy of Cultured Beef) Price is a market barrier for lab-grown beef, with production costs currently exceeding 250,000 euros per burger. (Photo... View Details