Andover Business Club

Topic : In February 2018, there were news articles everywhere raving about the fact that McDonald’s is going healthier.  It’s been over half a year now, so let’s revisit this promise the company has made. Has McDonalds made any changes to their menus? Is this idea even sustainable? Will they lose business/gain business with this shift towards a healthier menu? Do you believe fast food restaurants are sustainable in the US?

Thank you to all the new members who came to ABC’s meeting last week! I hope you were able to share your ideas with the group, learn something from someone else, and get a feel for how ABC meetings are run. For those of you who couldn’t make it, we had a fantastic conversation about Elon Musk and his role as Tesla’s CEO. Tomorrow, we will be hosting a board-only meeting at   6:30 PM in SamPhil room 102 . Last week we gathered the data from the results of the BluBoxes survey and tomorrow, Mr. Alonso (and hopefully Mr. Mundra and Ms. Elliott) will be joining the board to go over them and discuss the next steps we should take as a club. We will keep you updated on BluBoxes, but for now, we will see all non-board members next Tuesday!

For those of you who are new to ABC, we were founded last winter as a 100% discussion based club.  Some of our discussion topics last year included Apple’s marketing, Amazon Echo vs Google Home, the electric car market, and marketing a new product in a grocery store. Check out our blog for more details:   andoverbusinessclub.blogspot.com .  We meet weekly on Tuesdays at 6:30 PM and our meetings typically last 30 minutes.  We will meet tomorrow @6:30 PM in SAMPHIL room 102 in the history department wing.   For those of you who are new to ABC, we have already had a couple of meetings this term and we have moved away from discussion this term to work on a startup called BLUBOXES, which you may have seen in the Weekender.  We envision BLUBOXES as the next on-campus delivery service and tomorrow, we will review the data from the survey sent out through the Weekender this past weekend and prepare an email presenting this data to Mr. Alonso, the CFO of Andover. We will then have ot