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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
job. But Newman voiced some serious concerns about competition from industry giants such as Heinz, Campbell's, and Kraft, along with the skyrocketing price of shelf space in grocery chains. Responding to one student's question about key... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
and recently created PocketShop, a grocery shopping list program for the Pocket PC. Available at www.sdmventures.com, Murch notes that all profits will go to Habitat and the World Wildlife Fund. Working with Habitat, observes Murch, “has... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
fried cubed paneer (available at any Indian grocery store) or chicken (boneless breast cut into ½ inch cubes) 3 tablespoons Canola cooking oil 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 teaspoon salt (or to taste) 1... 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
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- 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
- 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
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
hundred cities. Our Robins would use free Uber rides to help the senior citizens with essentials like groceries and medicines throughout the lockdown.” The partnership with Uber has grown over the past two years, and the company has since... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
and a culture that values employees above all and empowers them to excel. Unlike its competitors, Dreyer’s has always insisted on delivering ice cream to grocery stores with its own trucks and drivers to ensure product quality. Early on... 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
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
provided food—delivering food, distributing grocery cards, and setting up sites where people can pick up food. We’ve helped bridge the gap between paychecks. Partnering with the ICA Watershed, we are using their facility in East Boston... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
one-cup feedings per day costs $20.95 — more than most grocery brands but a manageable sum for customers who value the convenience of automatic shipments that make taking care of the family dog as easy as peeling the top off a SmartPak.... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
in his big leather chair and knew I wanted to be in business someday. Those visits entered my DNA.” Culture shock: “My HBS study group had a good laugh when we went grocery shopping together. I was absolutely overwhelmed by choosing from... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
York Times Company, for example)-and also the most vulnerable (witness Canada's Steinberg's grocery store chain, which succumbed to family infighting). Howard H. Stevenson, HBS's Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and an... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Rupees. “She gives motivational talks and inspires women,” says Bhargava. “Her goal to create 30 more entrepreneurs like herself is on its way.” Another alumnus, Abdus Samad, grew up in Rasulpur, a poor village in West Bengal. He quit school after eighth grade to work... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
adopted community, talking to everyone who came into Caravia Fresh Foods, the specialty grocery and deli owned by Ryan Cognetti—maker of that fateful chicken sandwich—and his family. Having served on multiple political campaigns, she... View Details