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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Steve Easterbrook, was named president and CEO, and the turnaround was on. Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) had left Kraft Foods in September 2015, when he connected with Easterbrook, who was looking for someone to help him fine-tune his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
products account for 1 to 2 percent of total food sales in the United States. Reade’s business is mostly wholesale, selling to one organic distributor, two local health-food stores, and two restaurants. “The... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
of Staples, Inc., will be the first to tell you, thank goodness he got canned. On July 4, 1985, Stemberg - who had been let go by First National Supermarkets earlier that year as the firm prepared to sell his division - ran out of typewriter ribbon. Finding the View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the WeChat ecosystem. The biggest and best and most inspiring tech companies are not just from Silicon Valley, they're coming from everywhere and they're being inspired by local problems that are getting solved and View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
massacre. Between December 14 and December 19, 1970, soldiers quelling protests in northern Poland had killed 42 people who had been demonstrating against the government’s decision to increase food prices. Maj, long-haired and lanky at... View Details
- 21 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Evelyne White (MBA 2010)
Evelyne White Photo courtesy of Evelyne White What's the story behind Bookalokal? "I got the idea for Bookalokal in the summer of 2012. I'd been living in Brussels for a few years and hosting travelers. They all had similar questions about where to go, where to get a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
with local public and private schools, enabling students to volunteer at All Souls on a regular basis. Young school children set tables and make centerpieces while older ones prepare food and wait on guests.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
cross-cultural learning aspect to it that you can’t duplicate in the classroom, which is very much a part of being a global business school. That doesn’t mean putting a U.S.-born student in the Paris office of Goldman Sachs. It’s immersing students in situations with... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
Century.” Okay, that might be a bit of local television hyperbole, but it was amazing to see the grainy video, spartan sets, rudimentary weather graphics, weathermen with long hair and sideburns (I am sure we did not look that dorky at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
Born in Kansas, Whit Sears graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, before attending HBS. He and his wife, DD, are currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers in Thailand, where they teach English and mentor local teachers.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
supplemental video content online to those visiting theaters as well as an opportunity to watch the same movie with friends and family later at home? Or building online/offline communities around local theaters in addition to competing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
environment where 115-plus local breweries work together to create some of the best craft beer in the country. In addition, San Diego County has done a nice job of diversifying its water resources. With that said, we expect the landscape... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
it, and to do that, we need more tourists from North America and other places. To achieve that, we must work hand in hand with local politicians and the public administration, one thing we’ve not done so well to date. The people of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Boston’s Sasaki Associates, however, Mawilmada was restless. It’s probably his grandfather’s fault. A member of the municipal council in Kandy, Loku Banda Mawilmada was responsible for a number of local improvements, including a school, a... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Cohen, and Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Favorite restaurant in Singapore? My favorite restaurant is Elemen, which serves wholesome, meatless local food in a modern format. View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley