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Hamburger Business Review PodcastHBR Holiday SpecialDoes McDonalds even celebrate the holidays? They did come out with a “holiday pie” but it doesn’t seem very festive. Back in 2000 they seemed to love Santa…Retail sales are expected to be up this holiday season, with bars and restaurants leading the way, so you’d think McDonalds would be leaning into the holiday cheer. But maybe when you are so dominant in the IEO space you don't need to flaunt it?What’s IEO? They kept saying it at the Investor Day presentation and I had to look it up. It’s the McDonald’s...
2023-12-2019 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastGrinding It Out with Chris K.Grinding It Out is the title of Ray Kroc’s 1977 autobiography and also an aspect of the personality that is needed to run the vast and massively powerful McDonald’s Corporation. Throughout the ten episodes of Hamburger Business Review we’ve taken to referring to the CEO as sitting on the Golden Throne."When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground." -Cersei LannisterThere have only been 10 CEOs of McDonald’s:* Ray Kroc: 1961 to 1973* Fred Turner 1973: to 1989* Michael Quinlan: 1989 to 1998* J...
2023-07-2629 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastEveryone Loves to #HateMcDonald'sWe’re discussing a strangely topical case study from 2013 called McDonald's Twitter Campaign: Hype Versus Reality, which is about how mean social media is.It starts with a promoted "#MeetTheFarmers" hashtag designed to introduce the wholesome sourcing of McDonald’s. Something like this:To boost “engagement” they switched from from #MeetTheFarmers to #McDStories halfway through the first day of the campaign, hoping to get regular customers to say wonderful things. Of course, that isn’t how Twitter has ever worked…The new hashtag got people’s attention! McDonald’s quickly pivoted back to the original #Me...
2023-07-1230 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastWould You Sleep at McDonald's?I’ve been waiting for this case study all season, and it’s such a weird business attempt that there are two case studies about the Golden Arch Hotel, an attempted McDonald’s hotel franchise.In 2001 the CEO of McDonald’s in Switzerland got the green light to apply the franchise DNA of McDonald’s to a hotel. As a frequent business traveller Urs Hammer thought of everything, and used his deep understanding of scalable efficient service to design a hotel like no other. It’s not really a spoiler to say that it failed. But it faile...
2023-07-0325 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastAI Burgers: McDonald's Goes DigitalWhat does artificial intelligence have to do with burgers? As we’re learning at Hamburger Business Review, there is nothing that McDonald’s doesn’t touch, including AI. Following their ambitious Velocity Growth Plan McDonald’s acquired Dynamic Yield in 2019 as part of a strategy to use big data for more personalization. The digitization of McDonald’s has been in the works for years, and is incorporated at every level, from the store and drive-thru remodels to the focus on the app and delivery services. In this episode we look at the 2020 case study McDonald's: Can A Behemoth L...
2023-06-0723 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastBurger Hedging: Are The Parts Greater Than The Whole?Beware the beautiful eyes of Bill Ackman, the CEO and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management. When he gets a crush on a business it usually means he has some bold new plan to make drastic changes in order to achieve drastic profits.In 2015 the gaze of Ackman was on Wendy’s, which he pressured into selling off the profitable Tim Horton’s chain. Ackman sold his shares at a substantial profit, and then stock price later collapsed.When he later took on McDonald’s the process wasn’t quite as smooth. Was his idea flawed o...
2023-05-3030 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastMcDonald's: The Arch Deluxe LaunchThe Arch Deluxe was a massive undertaking for McDonald’s. This 1996 case study gives us a history of the company, a look at some attempts at premium burgers, and then drops us into the launch of the Arch Deluxe, what was supposed to be the launch of a new burger platform within McDonald’s targeting a more sophisticated customer. It may no longer be on the menu, but it was an important moment in the constant evolution of McDonald’s. In Other Hamburger News:* The Decline of Fuddruckers… What Happened? on YouTube by Company...
2023-05-0219 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastStarted as Crew vs McJob: The Jan Fields StoryToday we’re looking at the career of Jan Fields. She almost quit after her first day, but sticking it out paid off in a series of promotions that eventually led her to the executive level. This case study is a battle between the idea of the “McJob” and the culture of McDonald’s that loves the executive storyline as a recruiting tool.We also look at the current CEO of McDonald’s is a factory clone of the modern day business executive. And stay though to the end as we wrap the recent McDonald’s news!
2023-04-2524 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastThe McCafé InitiativeIf the Egg McMuffin isn’t enough, then how can McDonald’s win breakfast?In this 2004 case study we look at the launch of the McCafé in Canada as a way to compete against the Canadian’s national loyalty to their maple leafed coffee purveyor Tim Horton’s.In the end we are stymied by what we consider a bit of an underwhelming case study.Does anyone associate strongly with McCafé? Like they do with Starbucks or Dunkin’? That seems unlikely, and yet McDonald’s plain coffee has been better than Dunkin’ for years in taste t...
2023-04-1925 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastMcDonald's Russia: Managing a CrisisIn August of 1998 the Russian financial crisis threatened to destroy George Cohon's 14 year quest to bring McDonald's to Russia. The country was in a state of emergency with massive inflation and widespread economic disarray.Join us as we talk about the dramatic story and come up with our own unique solution to the problem presented in this case study. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit hamburgerbusinessreview.substack.com
2023-04-0423 min
Hamburger Business Review PodcastMcDonald's and the EnvironmentThis is the pilot episode of Hamburger Business Review that proved the concept of how interesting it can be to talk about Harvard Business Review’s case studies about McDonald’s. We made the following announcement on March 15th.Pilot Order: Hamburger Business ReviewExperimental Garden Group co-host Mike Merrill and burger innovator Zach Rose are set to co-host and produce a Hamburger Business Review pilot episode in mid to late March of 2023.Merrill and Rose started to discuss the project after Rose joined the Experimental Garden Group investment club and Merr...
2023-03-2935 min
Chuck Shute PodcastThe Clips Show (50th Episode Spectacular)The 50th Episode of The Chuck Shute Podcast, compiling one minute clips from the past 49 episodes to highlight all the great moments. 00:00 - Intro02:35 - Explaining Guests (#1)03:25 - Anthony Davis - OCD (#2)04:25 - Mark Gus Scott - Tour With Poison & Bret Michaels (#3)05:25 - Keith Douglas - Rock Star Life (#4)06:25 - Donnie Vie - Near Death Experience (#5)07:25 - Sydney Smith - Only Black Kid (#6)08:25 - Eddie Eberle - "It's Not Me, It's You" (#7)09:25 - Lee Perreira - "Doctor's Orders" (#8)10:25 - Brandon Gibbs - Rift With Rikki Rocket (#9)11:25...
2020-08-1852 min
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Title: Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice
Author: The Believer
Narrator: Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Scheer, Paul Sims, Rich Fulcher, Laraine Newman, Jerry Stahl, Julie Klausner, George Saunders, Patton Oswalt, Fred Willard, Bob Saget, Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 6, 2012
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Comedy
Publisher's Summary:
The Believer magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, Parks...
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Title: Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice
Author: The Believer
Narrator: Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Scheer, Paul Sims, Rich Fulcher, Laraine Newman, Jerry Stahl, Julie Klausner, George Saunders, Patton Oswalt, Fred Willard, Bob Saget, Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 6, 2012
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Comedic Voices
Publisher's Summary:
The Believer magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live...
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Title: Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice
Author: The Believer
Narrator: Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Scheer, Paul Sims, Rich Fulcher, Laraine Newman, Jerry Stahl, Julie Klausner, George Saunders, Patton Oswalt, Fred Willard, Bob Saget, Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 6, 2012
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
The Believer magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live...
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Title: Care To Make Love In That Gross Little Space Between Cars?: A Believer Book of Advice
Author: The Believer
Narrator: Weird Al Yankovic, Paul Scheer, Paul Sims, Rich Fulcher, Laraine Newman, Jerry Stahl, Julie Klausner, George Saunders, Patton Oswalt, Fred Willard, Bob Saget, Various
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Release date: March 6, 2012
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Comedic Voices
Publisher's Summary:
The Believer magazine presents a compendium of advice from producers, writers, and actors of The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live...
2012-03-064h 23