Filter Results
:
(70)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(234)
- News (70)
- Research (139)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (75)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(234)
- News (70)
- Research (139)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (75)
Sort by
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
services industry that includes supermarket chains, shopping malls, wind energy, and banks. Both his son, Murat (MBA 2003), and daughter, Aysecan (who holds an MBA from Stanford), work closely with him. "I'm still a hands-on manager of my...
View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
addressed topics such as financing small and medium businesses during the pandemic, managing through crisis, and understanding the new normal. On June 10, Carlos Mario Giraldo, CEO of Grupo Exito, a leading supermarket chain in Colombia,...
View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
examples of businesses that use Feng shui. Two high-profile users are the Hong Kong Bank, the largest and most successful bank in Hong Kong, and the Marks & Spencer stores, probably the most successful supermarket and department store...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
So it’s not clear that consolidation necessarily limits consumer choice. But if news or opinion is sold like supermarket cereal, there’s only room on the shelves for what most pleases most people. Ideally, the public interest would...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
side by side on supermarket shelves for the long run. For politicians it is different. What counts is not the size of the market, that is, how many people actually vote. All that matters is winning a plurality on Election Day. The upshot...
View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
a roof deck; a small ‘captive audience’ model at supermarkets and stadiums; and a midsize ‘outlot’ model in shopping centers.” Make smart partnerships. “Because of the Food Network, the name Jeff Mauro is well-known in grocery stores, but...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
on the spot, then processed, packed, and distributed the honey and related products for sale in supermarket chains. To date, the company has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (over 45 percent of them women) and its business...
View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
first to handle perishable goods in supermarkets that are approaching their expiration dates, and now to work even further upstream with growers," explains Zeaske, who never suspected how much his first-year TOM course would come in...
View Details
Keywords:
Agriculture
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
culling its inventory from the excess food other supermarkets and suppliers typically throw away. The Kendall Foundation also supports CommonWealth Kitchen, which offers food entrepreneurs a place to incubate new businesses without the...
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
supermarket with nothing over a buck, even if our stores may not have every item or every brand. We came up with the slogan “Save More, Shop Us First!” by talking to customers who do just that — they come here, then fill in what they...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
could replace the painful prick of a vaccination needle. And as "delivery vehicles" for medicines proliferate, new distribution channels, such as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources...
View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
additional vans and new production lines to keep up with demand and geographic expansion. But beyond the short-term phenomenon, Behn believes there is no going back, because the supermarket concept is 50 or 60 years old and is overdue for...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,...
View Details
Keywords:
Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
says. This suggests that innercity supermarkets would enjoy a customer base predisposed to be loyal. Crockett found that when they did shop at the local, smaller markets, "consumers were forced to be extra vigilant and inspect their...
View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
in June, the CEO of leading Colombian supermarket chain Grupo Éxito, Carlos Mario Giraldo, talked about his company’s efforts to help customers, employees, and essential workers. Middle East & North Africa Research Center In May, the...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
contaminated. “We had been following the dog food recall, which centered around contaminated wheat gluten, a cheap dog food ingredient used primarily in supermarket brands,” explains Gisholt. “But we were totally shocked to discover that...
View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
consumer-driven system would require transparency in health-care quality and costs. Can you imagine shopping in a supermarket where you don't know products' prices or ingredients? In the 1930s, President Roosevelt created the SEC to...
View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
includes the shoe bath, the growing units’ double-door protocol, and the lab coats. Better defenses mean decreased loss and, therefore, higher yields. By the fall of 2015, FreshBox had six production units and was distributing its leafy greens to the local Roche Bros....
View Details