Stephan's Friday Picks

• 6 kinds of board members - and how to influence them (HBR)
• The art and science of reducing retail shrink (McKinsey)
• Starbucks CEO takes on chain's social media controversy (WSJ)
• Jorge Lemann's 3G fuels hedge fund bets for billionaire dynasty (Bloomberg)
• From the archives (2004): Interbrew said to be near deal for Brazil brewer AmBev (NYT)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Stop undervaluing exceptional women (HBR)
• The nation that gave the world avocado toast now has too many avocados (WSJ)
• The history and future of crisis management (McKinsey)
• Bed Bath & Beyond clinches loan deal (WSJ)
• Donald Sobey's sexual assault of a young man was an open secret. Now his victim is finally telling his story (Globe and Mail)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• J&J knew for years that asbestos lurked in its baby powder (Reuters)
• A toaster on wheels to deliver groceries? Self-driving tech tests practical uses (NYT)
• America can't move its cheese (WSJ)
• Going head-to-head in beauty retailing (Coresight Research)
• Tilray, Novartis deal to distribute medical marijuana globally (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Alibaba's online growth surges, even as it looks offline (NYT)
• Alibaba leads $300 million funding for India's top online grocer (Bloomberg)
• Big brands lose pricing power in battle for customers (FT)
• IKEA's success can't be attributed to one charismatic leader (HBR)
• Formula scandal sends shudders through France (NYT)

Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• The inside story of what it took to keep a Texas grocery chain running in the chaos of Hurricane Harvey (LinkedIn)
• Is Unilever the last good big company (Bloomberg)
• What does it cost to start a new farm (Fast Company)
• Juicero, the $700 juicer startup, is looking for a buyer - and shutting down in the meantime (ReCode)
• Grocery business ripe for disruption (CBC)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• Amazon wants Cheerios, Oreos, and other brands to bypass Walmart (Bloomberg)
• Amazon and Walmart are in an all-out price war that are terrifying America's biggest brands (Recode)
• Is it too late for Sears to save itself (HBR)
• The death of the daily deal (K@W)
• Johnson and Johnson have a baby powder problem (Bloomberg)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Reorganizing supermarket layouts could make us eat more veggies (Food and Wine)
• Mall owners rush to get out of the mall business (WSJ)
• Ahold Delhaize CEO: We continue to focus on fresh (Bloomberg)
• Samsung looks to repair consumer trust (WSJ)
• Dynamic capabilities at Samsung: Optimizing internal co-opetition (Berkeley)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• The world's biggest public companies (Forbes)
• Why ex-Canadian Tire CEO Michael Medline is the man to fix Sobeys (Canadian Business)
• Metro considers switching from Air Miles over consumer backlash (Globe and Mail)
• Target plans to introduce its own smartphone payment service in stores later this year (Recode)
• Much of the cuisine we now know, and think of as ours, came to us by war (Smithsonian Mag)

Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Burger King, Tim Hortons aim to curb antibiotics in chicken supply (Financial Post)
• The world's biggest food company makes the case for its avant-garde human diet (Quartz)
• Why we're seeing so many corporate scandals (HBR)
• Setting value, not price (MQ)
• The mystery of the rude waiter (Slate)

Stephan's Monday Picks

• How did Walmart get cleaner stores and higher sales? It paid its people more (NYT)
• How Target and Amazon are changing the rules of retailing (Knowledge@Wharton)
• What's healthy? What's natural" (The Atlantic)
• Is salmon jerky the next million-dollar snack food (Bloomberg)
• PepsiCo sets global target for sugar reduction (Reuters)
• Wells Fargo's textbook case of botched crisis management (WSJ)