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  • 25 Jun 2024
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On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)

When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment. DePree joined Nordstrom in... View Details
Keywords: retail; customer service; supply chain management; career experience; Retail Trade
  • 01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

father's travels provided me with a broadening experience," says Porter, at ease between sips from a can of diet soda, "and athletics offered an outlet for competing while exposing me to the importance of self-discipline and thorough... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 20 Jan 2023
  • News

Free Spirits

currant and lime. It leaves behind a feisty little bite of a finish, produced by a touch of capsaicin. Like all of Tilden’s cocktails, Eden is non-alcoholic. The founders’ goal for Tilden is to solve for a very sugary pain point: the Shirley Temple. Like its cousins,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places
  • 01 Jun 2012
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A Better World, One Idea at a Time

A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the... View Details
Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Crop Production; Agriculture; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2016
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Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck

work on the road—there are salespeople, there are service people. They have to have access to data, they have to communicate. When I have that job to be done and I do not have a physical office to go to, what do I do? What can I hire to... View Details
  • 03 Aug 2022
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Hungry for Change

on the back of the package. Eventually, “I really started focusing on the actual ingredients I was putting in my body,” she recalls. When she did, Flynn discovered that a diet of nutritionally rich, minimally processed foods gave her more... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Mar 2004
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Ron Shaich’s Café Society

will want to repeat. When we move into a new location, we try to get the word out by inviting people to sample our products. We also try to be good citizens in our communities. Last year we contributed over $12 million in product and cash. Are you worried about the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places
  • 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground

organization owns the problem, there can’t be one owner of the solution.” For example, the bees need diversity in their diet and can suffer from malnutrition in monoculture environments. But beekeepers have a hard time “going to a farmer... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

the bakery's finances." For her part, Nundy, an intern in the HBS Nonprofit and Public Management Summer Fellowship Program, was equally energized by her experiences during her twelve weeks of service in India. She spent the first six... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

that there are currently 111,000 pages of Medicare regulations on the books. A cardiologist at the session described, with frustration, his ongoing multiyear crusade to convince Medicare officials to fund preventive measures against heart disease - such as exercise and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity with Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Legumes, Nuts, Seeds, and More, Based on the Wisdom of Leading American Chefs by Karen Page (MBA 1989) (Little Brown and Co.) People have chosen to adopt vegetarian or vegan View Details
  • 01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?

with the added benefit that they could be eaten at the end of the season, so in 1986 Whiteside began farming on the side, expanding his herd to about 50 animals in 2000. Whiteside supplemented their diet with grain, then tried soybeans... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
  • 01 Jun 2014
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Screen Saver

service outlets. "When Gerry was hired, it was the company's first deliberate action to view consumer packaged goods as an important growth platform for Starbucks," says Barry Beeninga, a 16-year veteran of the company who worked with... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment
  • 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

publicly funded. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) Japan’s demographic time bomb is a bittersweet result of its robust recovery after World War II. Within two generations, the country catapulted from a state of ruin to the second-strongest economy in the world. Fed a steady... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?

make the font, where to put the prices on the menu, and what level of descriptions we should have, whether we should have pictures on the menu or not, we’ve experimented with other aspects of the service model, how we should make the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
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