Whole Foods - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost nobody up the View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

03 Jul 2024
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Surviving the Iditarod

go to sleep. You have to do chores. You have to make food for yourself, you have to refill your water, which if the temperatures are down below freezing, you're going to have to melt snow, you're going to have to tend to your feet and any... View Details

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

arrangements for two of them to be kept at Estes, because they only want one in the building. With African Americans, they want music that they’re familiar with. People will have food brought in, they will deliver View Details

28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World

relationships are perhaps the most important thing for joy and well-being. A sense of purpose, fitness, mindfulness, and the fifth one was fun. I started with that one just because it felt strange to talk about joy and be a hundred percent serious about the View Details

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1996
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Class Acts

kitchen to a larger production facility in Vermont. Over the next few years, he and his family orchestrated the creation of an entire line of nationally distributed condiments and pasta sauces. In 1995, his natural foods company, Uncle... View Details

29 Aug 2018
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The Value of Valleys

actually on the HBS website and I called the headhunter and I said, "I really want to interview for this job." Sodexo's a food service company principally. I was in financial services, and the headhunter said, "You've got zero... View Details

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

Russia get their businesses up and running. But my top staff had been embezzling money and I had to make the decision to close down the whole operation. I went home to the United States ashamed that I was not prepared for this turn of... View Details

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