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J. Bruce Llewellyn
Llewellyn was involved in a wide variety of business ventures, almost all of which were extremely profitable. He excelled at leveraged buy-outs, and two years after accomplishing a buy-out of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company,... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Asa G. Candler
sold in every state and by 1898, Coca-Cola had moved into Canada, Hawaii, and Mexico. In 1899, Candler signed a bottling contract with two Chattanooga lawyers, birthing the Coca-Cola franchise system, which remains the basis of the... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
Grolsch Brewery in Enschede, the Netherlands. Highlights: Product and Operational Sustainability Initiatives Sustainable Packaging. One of the most surprising facts we learned at Grolsch is that the average beer bottle in the Netherlands... View Details
- 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,... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
barefoot. The result is an un-aged 80 proof clear spirit derived from fresh-fermented grape juice (wine). It takes at least four bottles of wine to produce one bottle of pisco. Pisco Punch and Pisco Sour are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
community. There's also Earl Junior (MBA '88)-known more familiarly as Butch - the president and COO of the family's company, Earl G. Graves, Ltd., which includes the magazine, a private equity fund, and a Pepsi bottling operation.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Humor Us
without Robert.” Hoffman, who went on to become cochairman of the Coca-Cola Bottling Group (Southwest), sold his shares in the magazine in 1975. He was a well-known art collector, arts patron, and philanthropist who last year donated some... View Details
- Portrait Project
Drew Johnson
turkey sandwich and a bottle of water on a hot afternoon. As I think about what to do with my life, I see that my ultimate purpose is to make a positive impact on people by doing things both big and small. For me, it’s knowing that people... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
marketplace," de Brito said. For example, his company tried to sell the standard 600-milliliter bottle it sold in Brazil rather than the one-liter bottle that was standard in Argentina. Market research... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Last Look
creative than winning. Harvard’s grad schools, along with MIT and BU, eventually joined the College’s fun. Kiely recalls that after a student was conked on the head with a bottle and fell into the Charles, the race was ended in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
to turn it into a for-profit business, but I thought somehow people needed to know about it and what could be done. And then came the aha moment: I was hiking in the desert with my mother on a very hot day, drinking out of a water bottle... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Endline’s candy dreams. Previous Next Safe water for millions Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) Founder, S’well Bottle “My dream with S’well is to allow those without options to be provided clean drinking water, while at the same time encourage... View Details
- Portrait Project
Andrew Velo-Arias
boundless. When I wanted to play Danny Zuko in our third-grade rendition of Grease, she used two bottles of hair spray to help me look the part. When I wanted to become a baseball star, she used a flashlight so my dad and I could play... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- News
Water for the World
but also to give it away in times of critical need. “I think I can say that most Icelanders are people who really think about the environment. I’m working with a bottled water company, and a lot of people might say ‘bottled water is not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
products are sold directly to consumers and will be available at a national retailer by summer of 2020. In starting Blueland, Paiji Yoo and Mascari aimed to help reduce up to five billion cleaning-product bottles used per year. “We share... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Apr 2019
- News
And the Winner Is…
$75,000. Claiming both the alumni grand prize and crowd favorite awards was Blueland, which is “(t)aking the weight and waste out of your everyday products” through reusable bottles and concentrated cleaning tablets. “We’re starting with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
that is pure jazz. My single favorite sound effect was created for an unrehearsed Guy Noir sketch. Guy Noir was going to a chiropractor. Suddenly, he was about to have a spinal adjustment. I grabbed a ribbed water bottle and wrapped it in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Jan 2010
- News
Tweet, Tweet
“Coca-Cola has built 59 schools in China. Impressive. Here is sweet elixir being made,” read another, with an attached photo from a bottling plant. And from Africa: “Teaching our case to a class of Rwandan students was an unforgettable... View Details
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Olujimi Williams
He recognizes, however, that he cannot fulfill his ambition alone. His education at HBS, for example, is supported by a full scholarship from 7Up Bottling Company in Nigeria. “Throughout the application process,” notes Olujimi, “I also... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education... View Details