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  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

without a bookstore,” she says. “It’s every bit a part of a community as a bank or a grocery store or a hardware store.” As she surveyed her new business in early 2016, however, Brody knew the East Hampton... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 23 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

third party. By contrast, a grocery store also creates a space for consumers and multiple brands to meet—but the store controls the transaction, serving as a reseller. Done... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 27 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

"Every morning I text her 'Good morning, beautiful.'" Household chore: Even an activity that might otherwise be viewed as drudgery can be meaningful when a couple does it together; 6 percent of respondents said their rituals involved chores. "We make sure we go to the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

participants a description about a consumer named Matthew who shopped at either an upscale grocery store or instead used grocery-delivery service Peapod. Though Whole Foods was perceived as more of a luxury... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

providing personal protection equipment (PPE) to suppliers and contractors. In some cases, risk-sharing practices meant sharing workers with other businesses so companies experiencing a downturn could help businesses with a temporary spike in demand, such as supporting... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 10 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

time. This helps me prioritize the most important events, and not feel guilty about the many HBS activities I need to decline.  Best Mama Hack: Get a running stroller! Even if you don't run, they're more nimble than a normal stroller (maneuver around a View Details

    Clarence Saunders

    Having made a name for himself as a grocery wholesaler, Saunders decided to embark on a plan of revolutionizing the common supermarket. Removing unnecessary clerks, creating elaborate aisle displays and rearranging the View Details
    Keywords: Retail

      Bernard H. Kroger

      Kroger is responsible for many innovations in grocery store operations. He was the first to place grocery ads in daily newspapers and was the first grocer to bring meat... View Details
      Keywords: Retail
      • 01 Jun 2017
      • News

      Streamlining the Supermarket

      order-fulfillment process at Amazon, which acquired the company for $775 million in 2012. Aguerrevere, who had founded a small-format grocery store chain in his native Venezuela, discussed the talk with Max... View Details
      Keywords: Francis Storrs

        James E. Davis

        family enterprise, Davis was a major architect of the acquisitions, and of the company’s profitability in general. The work of Davis and his brothers created the largest grocery store chain in the South and... View Details
        Keywords: Retail
        • 17 Oct 2016
        • HBS Case

        Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

        As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

          Joe C. Thompson, Jr.

          Though Southland was quite a successful block ice retailer in the 1920s, when home refrigerators became popular, the company suffered and was forced into bankruptcy in 1932. Seeing the budding success of the retail grocery View Details
          Keywords: Retail
          • 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
          Keywords: Deborah Blagg; e-commerce; order fulfillment; robotics; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Miscellaneous Store Retailers

            John P. Mackey

            Through a series of acquisitions, Mackey transformed Whole Foods from a small, niche player in the grocery retail business into a major enterprise. In many ways, Mackey and Whole Foods have brought organic and natural foods into the... View Details
            Keywords: Retail
            • Profile

            Eryn Schultz

            out about a nonprofit grocery store concept I’m now involved with. It’s called Daily Table, and it was founded by Doug Rauch, the ex-president of Trader Joe’s. He noticed that the average View Details
            Keywords: Consulting
            • 30 Jul 2019
            • News

            Turning Around Tesco

            The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is... View Details
            Keywords: Tesco; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
            • 01 Jun 2018
            • News

            Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place

            the operational implications of that behavior for service providers. Buell’s research, which included observing the behaviors of people both in a physical line at the grocery store checkout and in virtual... View Details
            Keywords: Jennifer Myers
            • 8 AM – 8 PM MDT, 18 May 2018
            • HBS Alumni Events

            HBS Hacks: Solving For The Future of Work in San Francisco

            Collaborate with fellow HBS alumni to create the actionable solutions to one of societys most vexing challenges. View Details
            • 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
            • 04 Oct 2019
            • News

            Changing of the Guard at Tesco

            chain. Yet the same was true for Lewis, who came to Tesco from Unilever. “I remember people said that I wasn’t a retailer,” he told the Times of London. “I hadn’t been in grocery or a chief executive before, but being a chief executive is... View Details
            Keywords: Tesco; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
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