Stephan's Friday Picks

• Campbell's U.S. soup sales cool off (WSJ)
• Tim Hortons credit card to launch in mobile rewards app (CBC)
• 'Massive shift' in food shopping habits as prices soar (BBC)
• Bank of Canada hikes rates by a quarter point amid stubbornly high inflation, resilient economy (Globe and Mail)
• From the archives (2018): The 3 things that employees really want: Career, community, and cause (HBR)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• Ghost kitchens are dying and nobody noticed (Washington Post)
• SunnyD vodka seltzer tastes nothing like SunnyD - or vodka (Washington Post)
• The global brands coming to a shopping mall near you (WSJ)
• Indigo sees nearly half its board exit; founder Heather Reisman to retire this summer (Globe and Mail)
• Six ways retail can soar through the macroeconomic clouds (Bain)

Stephan's Wednesday Picks

• Companies that embraced social issues have second thoughts (WSJ)
• Canada's affordability conundrum (BMO)
• UK ministers discuss voluntary price limits for basic items but rule out imposing caps (The Guardian)
• Generative AI and retail: Beyond the skateboarding panda (Bain)
• Bed Bath & Beyond in talks to sell Buybuy Baby (WSJ)

 Stephan's Tuesday Picks

• Roger Martin: What strategy questions are you asking (Medium)
• Restaurant chain Cava set to launch IPO (WSJ)
• How the best CEOs continually improve performance (McKinsey)
• This tale of two British buyouts gets a twist (Washington Post)
• Why your steak is getting pricier (WSJ)

 Stephan's Monday Picks

• Inside the buzziest restaurant in America (GQ)
• Has New York reached peak pork (NYT)
• When blind hiring advances DEI - and when it doesn't (HBR)
• Why are food prices so high in Europe (NYT)
• The data science behind raising fast food prices (WSJ)

 Stephan's Friday Picks

• Bed Bath & Bankruptcy: Lessons from senior leaders (MIT Sloan Management Review)
• How America's largest restaurant franchisee decides when to raise prices (WSJ)
• The beauty market in 2023 (McKinsey)
• How Bud Light blew it (WSJ)
• From the archives (2019): Do your data scientists know the 'why' behind their work (HBR)

 Stephan's Thursday Picks

• America is binging on snacks, and food companies are eating it up (WSJ)
• Michael Medline dishes on supply chain woes, price-fixing allegations, and Galen Weston (Globe and Mail)
• MSG is finally getting its revenge (The Atlantic)
• Activist shareholder plans proxy battle at Shake Shack (WSJ)
• Why CEOs and boards should be terrified by activist investors and their new tactics (Globe and Mail)