Food and Beverage Stores - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 1977
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January 1977
Case

Mackintosh Chocolate Co. (B)

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr.

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

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12 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

as landfills (even factoring in emissions associated with transporting it that distance). Only residual waste is incinerated—consumers sort trash into up to ten diferent streams including food waste, plastic, cartons, glass, cardboard,... View Details

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

electrical current, they pressed the lever over and over again, hundreds of times per hour, foregoing food or sleep, until many of them dropped dead from exhaustion. Further research found pleasure centers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

April 2011
Teaching Note

Cork'd: Building a Social Network for Wine Lovers (TN)

Teaching Note for 911026. View Details

Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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Kresge Way | About

ideas with peers, scholars, and business practitioners from across the globe. Before Kresge, food service was located at Cowie Hall, a temporary structure built by the US Navy View Details

01 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

establish new policies for treating Prime members differentially in the next distribution crisis? Will we see Amazon go after its retail competitors by increasing its retail store network beyond Whole Foods... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

June 1995 (Revised May 1996)
Teaching Note

RJR Nabisco - 1990 TN

By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee

Teaching Note for (9-290-021). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured its entire organization to deliver low prices. Wal-Mart's... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

December 2024
Case

Tropo Farms

By: David E. Bell, Pippa Tubman Armerding, Namrata Arora and Natalie Kindred

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Ghana; Africa; Sierra Leone

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April 1975 (Revised November 1988)
Case

La Grande Alliance-Restaurant Francaise

By: Claudine B. B. Malone and Carliss Y. Baldwin

Pricing of meals for exclusive French restaurant. View Details

Keywords: Price; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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September 1988 (Revised November 1988)
Case

American Rice: A Farmers Cooperative Goes Public

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Restructuring; Competitive Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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01 Sep 2007
News

Where Are They Now?

The first in a series of occasional articles in which the Bulletin catches up with former HBS faculty members. SCHLESINGER: Now doing business at Limited Brands. Len Schlesinger (DBA ’79) certainly walks the talk, as he moves easily back View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

being only one of three retailers to outperform Wal-Mart in both revenue and profit growth in that time. Life in a Dollar General store paints a vivid picture of the roots and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

microorganisms use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to photosynthesize sugar, proteins, and fat—the latter in the form of an oil that can replace fossil fuels in applications where batteries either can’t... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

thought about this. For the asynchronous work, we’ve used our own SaaS product, Stack Overflow for Teams, which allows us to break down silos, store evergreen knowledge internally and share information on... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services