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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 icon couldn’t remain trapped in...
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April White
- 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...
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- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
born and raised in Portuguese Mozambique, where his parents opened a grocery store. My mom is Shanghainese and grew up in Hong Kong. They both came to the US for college. My grandmother never went to high school and was part of the last...
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- 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
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Trading Company Bronzes, Pottery, Tea, Silk, Curiosities importing :766 13 2 Watson & Co. importing :766 13 1 early card? A.K. Brown, Dealer in Fish, Oysters, etc. grocery stores; seafood :772 Series II (VIA) only A.M.Weston View Details
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 departments into the store. Starting...
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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 Pedró (MBA 2002), his close...
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Francis Storrs
- Web
tradecardindex
tradecardindex - page 59 Advertising Ephemera Trade Card Index Series I and II Manufacturer, business or product Specific Product Names General product/ service type Ind. # Box # Total # of cards in Series I Oversize cards Location Other Formats; Languages Notes S.T....
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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 store to force...
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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...
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Retail
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
climate-controlled vaults. How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind People who bring personal shopping bags to the grocery store to help the environment are more likely to buy organic items—but also to treat...
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- 31 Jul 2016
- News
You Rang?
venture capital—to ask how they were doing it. Their answer? Help. So the pair hired a woman from Craigslist to assist with chores like grocery shopping and picking up the dry cleaning, splitting the expense. Intrigued neighbors asked if...
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George H. Hartford
Expanding beyond its initial base of imported tea products, Hartford established one of the largest chains of grocery stores, The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P) in the United States. Hartford was an early proponent of...
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Retail
Elbridge A. Stuart
After making a small fortune in the retail grocery business, Elbridge A. Stuart founded Carnation in 1899 to manufacture evaporated milk. During Stuart’s tenure, the market for evaporated milk grew tremendously, as did Carnation, which...
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Food & Tobacco
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
pounds of food that had been prepared for customers in the catering, hotel, travel, and restaurant industries got stuck in the supply chain when the world seized up. That’s when Philip Behn (MBA 2005), CEO of Imperfect Foods, jumped into recovery mode. An online View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) Ryan Buell (photo by Russ Campbell) We all wait in lines—at the grocery store, the bank, or a ticket booth, or on hold to speak to a customer service rep about your cable bill. “By one estimate,...
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Jennifer Myers
Curtis L. Carlson
Carlson was the first entrepreneur to develop a loyalty program for the grocery chain through the issuance of Gold Bond trading stamps. What began as a simple loyalty program for grocers in the Midwest grew into one of the largest service...
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David D. Glass
Glass is credited with leading Wal-Mart through an aggressive expansion program – increasing sales ten-fold (from $16 billion to $165 billion), developing the SuperCenter concept combining groceries and general merchandise, and opening...
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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 store business...
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- Portrait Project
Anthony Terrizzi
I will throw the bad food away. As a teenager in upstate New York, I got my first real job as a meat slicer in the deli department of a large grocery store. I spent much of my time memorizing the names of Italian cured meats and scooping...
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