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- 17 Dec 2019
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Under Pressure, OXXO Rethinks the Convenience Store
- 01 Jun 2022
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The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
indulgence or a necessity. If a tub of ice cream gets too expensive, someone might just choose another dessert. It makes less sense for necessities—like reducing the number of diapers in a package of Pampers—and in categories when there are standard View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the...
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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
brother-in-law, who was a CPA; my dad was an 8th grade-educated entrepreneur. And my uncle began taking the money from the partnership that broke up in 1955 and started a competitive chain called Mr. Donut. My dad was so upset at the fact that my uncle had almost...
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- 07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time
not just an idea anymore.” Based in San Francisco, Tea’s sales are projected to hit $25 million in 2011. Sold in some department stores (Nordstrom’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s) and children’s clothing boutiques, Tea has seen...
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- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
and helping customers figure out automatically how much to buy. But that's baked into the $25 a ton that users pay. So right now, that's how we make money and actually for an app of our size it means that our revenue model is pretty...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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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
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
the stores more comfortable by increasing their size and adding soft chairs, even fireplaces. Approximately five hundred of our stores are set up to provide wireless access to...
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- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
information (street, telephone number, etc.), and batches of filled-in forms were sent to the keypunching center in the basement of Baker Library. Piles of keypunched cards (each somewhat smaller than a size 10 envelope) containing the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market. While in the United States the make-up market is twice the size of the skin care market, in China the skin care market is four times the size of the make-up market. The huge Asian skin care market is...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998) came to it from a somewhat...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
changing the way she stores and releases carbon and heat.” Tell us about the Arctic Commission’s mandate and activities. Seven of us are appointed by the President to recommend research goals and to help the United States build...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
help address the climate change crisis by removing excess carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere. The promise of this approach has launched a raft of companies that not only capture but also store and even reuse the carbon—creating an...
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- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
think we have this dynamic in which people voted for—many, many people voted for the lesser of two evils for them. Morrell: How has this project changed you, you and your opinions? Hessan: Honestly, Daniel, I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. My backyard was the...
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- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
and bactericides to tires and textiles—or for storing intermittent renewable energy until it is ready to be used. OCO’s current electrolyzer design is about the size of a mini-fridge, but the team is working...
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Maureen Harmon
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
don’t lend money to pay taxes. And they did that. Then we worked out an arrangement with the county where they could pay it over a five-year period. And so they did that. Hennepin County spent $6 million and bought a piece of land across the street. They did all the...
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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
others, which is much more difficult to do in developed nations." Starbucks met that challenge by creating a "third place" for the customer between home and office, increasing the size of its stores and...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Booting Up
strong economic potential. But when it came time to search for an entrepreneurial opportunity in earnest, Thornton realized she didn't have to travel much farther than her own closet to find her niche. "As someone who wears a size 11 1/2...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Mar 2019
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Smart Marketing Brings Rapid Growth to Latino Brands
“If you fast forward 11 years, what we have been able to accomplish is, first of all, an insanely rapid growth. We have doubled the size of the business every two years. Second, we are close to servicing around 8,000 View Details