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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
absolutely essential.” Along with Henderson, eight others joined the HBS faculty this year. José Alvarez, senior lecturer in the Marketing unit, was a top executive with Ahold, a Dutch supermarket company, and Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Stemberg, HBS 1973, started his career in the supermarket industry. By the mid-1980s, out of work and looking for an entrepreneurial opportunity, he stumbled on an idea for a new business — a supermarket for... View Details
Jack M. Eckerd
acquisitions and by riding on the coattails of the supermarket expansion in the South, Eckerd doubled the size of his business every two years between 1959 and 1975. View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
brand on a supermarket shelf in Parma a few years ago. She then met Francesco Mutti when he attended Harvard Business School's Executive Education Agribusiness Seminar, held that year in São Paulo, Brazil. "Because he was from Parma and I... View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
might be interested in ex-post (i.e., once there). Thus, consumers coming to the supermarket to buy daily staples (say, bread and milk) might be induced to also get expensive chocolate if they have to walk past the corresponding aisle... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
Rob Gierkink
Flashfood, a business that works with supermarkets to significantly reduce food waste while helping families with their weekly food bill. In 2016 Rob invested in Index, a point-of-sale technology company. Rob became Chairman of the... 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... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
entrepreneur’s Flashfood app at a Toronto supermarket hadn’t gone well, ending with confusion among customers and ire from the store manager. But Domingues, who had launched the app after learning that international food waste was the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?
versus the inside. Marketing expertise depends on customer insights. These insights cannot be gleaned from looking at market research data on a computer screen. Just like politics, all marketing is retail. The customer votes every day at the View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
because I want them to keep giving me the best service they can deliver in exchange for my commitment to fly them whenever I can. Consumers can achieve anonymity today by declining to join supermarket frequent shopper programs, but by so... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
recommendation for an FDA-approved tea to strengthen aging joints. The company would expand from the vending machine and supermarket to the pharmacy, doctor’s office, and hospital. Schneider is set to take over the role at the beginning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Banking on Success
Weill, in 1998. Undaunted, he turned around a flagging Bank One, where he was chairman and CEO, and sold it in mid-2004 to JPMorgan Chase, where he immediately became president and, since January, CEO. Still committed to the supermarket... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
million real-estate portfolio. In 1993, he moved back to San Diego. There he formed CityLink Investment Corporation, a for-profit venture designed to carry out creative redevelopment projects. An interesting opportunity soon arose with the closing of a large View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
John A. Hartford
Under John Hartford’s management, A&P became a large integrated business empire. In 1937, he switched A&P to a supermarket operation from its base as a delivery store, which enabled him to offer even lower prices. By the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
a bind: Would they have to compromise on their social purpose and use plastic? Or could they come up with a different solution? Team members had an idea: What if they sold their produce to supermarkets unpackaged, and View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 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
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Alvarez has visited farms, slaughterhouses, packing plants, and supermarkets to explore issues of concern to managers working around the world and across the supply chain. “We try to get into the weeds of what’s happening and speak to 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... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
replace it? Alvarez floats one possibility: Every supermarket could make meat on premise and then package and sell it. (The meat is simply muscle and fat cells, which are replicated to build the tissue we eat.) A supply like that would... View Details
- Portrait Project
Danielle Slutzky
grandchildren be filled only with overflowing sweetness. My life is sweet, which makes my job urgent: to unleash the hope that food provides. I want to make the food industry part of the solution to malnourishment and obesity. I want to redesign our View Details