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  • 09 Apr 2016
  • News

Introducing Panera 2.0

As Panera Bread opens its 2,000 location, founder and CEO Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is preparing to launch Panera 2.0, the company’s ambitious plan to use technology to speed up the ordering process and enhance... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2019
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Why didn’t the Panera Cares social experiment pay off?

  • 26 Sep 2013
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Panera CEO Takes the Food Stamps Challenge

Ron Shaich, the CEO and founder of Panera Bread lived on a food and beverage budget of $4.50 per day for a week. That figure is about the same amount someone receiving food assistance would get per day. He joins Here & Now to share what... View Details
Keywords: food insecurity; poverty; food stamps; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 23 Nov 2018
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The Founder of Panera Bread Explains the Economic Forces That Led to Trump

  • 24 Dec 2014
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Panera Bread's Ron Shaich on How He Built a Pair of Fast-Casual Cafe Empires

  • 30 Apr 2018
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How I Built This: Ron Shaich on the Founding of Panera Bread

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 23 Nov 2018
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The Founder of Panera Bread Explains the Economic Forces That Led to Trump

  • 07 Sep 2014
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An MBA That Served up a Big Slice of the Snack Market

Keywords: Panera; Au Bon Pain; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 26 Jan 2022
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To Succeed With Purpose, Make it Personal

  • 09 Nov 2023
  • News

A Third Act for Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)

Widely credited with pioneering the concept of the restaurant industry’s $80 billion “fast casual” segment, Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) started small: a 400-square-foot business in Boston’s Downtown Crossing that sold cookies. From those humble but tasty beginnings, Shaich... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) has spent most of his career in restaurants, working in leadership positions at Yum! Brands and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts before becoming the CEO of View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2004
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Ron Shaich’s Café Society

Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Panera Bread, the fast-growing bakery-café chain with over six hundred locations in mostly suburban markets across the United States. Panera’s ability to deliver high-quality food... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 17 Apr 2017
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Panera-bred Leaders Have Risen Throughout the Restaurant Industry

As Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) grew Au Bon Pain and then the Panera Bread Company into the nation’s largest “fast casual” chain, he was also shaping a team of highly skilled restaurant executives. A recent article in the Boston Globe traces the... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 19 Nov 2020
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How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain

Photo courtesy of Panera Bread Photo courtesy of Panera Bread As the CEO of Panera Bread Co, Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) was intent on finding ways to make sure the... View Details
Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Ron Shaich (MBA 1978)

Ron Shaich’s (MBA 1978) first venture, a cookie shop in downtown Boston, evolved into Au Bon Pain. His latest—Panera Cares—allows customers to pay only what they can afford at the popular restaurants he owns, Panera Bread. There’s a box... View Details
  • 06 May 2019
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Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?

The founder and former CEO of Panera Bread has a new lease on life. Life Alive, that is. And it’s not a lease—he’s the owner. Ron Shaich (MBA 1978), has tapped his $300 million fund, Act III Holdings, to buy and reimagine a mini-chain of... View Details
Keywords: Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 27 Nov 2013
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No Bologna, Please

SHAICH by Julia Hanna Imagine a restaurant that doesn't charge for its food. There's a box for money—and a suggested donation amount—but no one can see what you pay, if you pay anything at all. That's the concept behind Panera Cares, a... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 27 Mar 2019
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German Family to Give $11M After Learning Extent of Nazi Past

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, cosmetics giant Coty, and other consumer brands. Peter Harf was a 2011 recipient of HBS’s Alumni Achievement Award. Harf told the AP that when he and the current Reimann family... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm

pass. But Dyson was insistent and he made his case over a four-hour lunch at a Panera Bread café in suburban Boston that has become the spot of all their important meetings. That fateful lunch happened six-and-a-half years ago. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
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