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- 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 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
- 31 Jul 2016
- News
You Rang?
venture capital—to ask how they were doing it. Their answer? Help. So the pair hired a woman from Craigslist to assist with chores like grocery shopping and picking up the dry cleaning, splitting the expense. Intrigued neighbors asked if... 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 Mar 2023
- News
Family Recipe
cheap. “Our sausage was 39 cents a pound in 1913,” notes Jones. “I believe that would make it about $8.50 per pound today.” (It runs more like $5.99 in most grocery stores.) With a continued focus on small-batch, high-quality products,... 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
- 28 Apr 2020
- News
Lessons from a COVID Survivor
Allow yourself to lean and be seen. Ruparell’s lifeline came from a broad network of friends and colleagues, who provided physical and emotional support, including grocery delivery and encouraging text messages during her illness. Let go... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course... View Details
- 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 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
the scenes for a while. Almost everyone I know in the food packaging and grocery industry is a health nut. People are becoming more aware of their health and have a growing desire to find a way to eat and feel better. That will change... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... 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