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- April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Fermenting Accounting Problems at Vermont Kombucha Corp.
By: Tatiana Sandino and Marshal Herrmann
Founded in 2005, Vermont Kombucha Corp. (V-Ko) was an early mover in the fledgling U.S. market for kombucha, a drink brewed for its health benefits. Early on, the company captured more than 90% of market share. Under the leadership of its founder and CEO, Joe Williams,... View Details
Keywords: Going Public; Business Model; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Corporate Governance; Stock Shares; Food and Beverage Industry
Sandino, Tatiana, and Marshal Herrmann. "Fermenting Accounting Problems at Vermont Kombucha Corp." Harvard Business School Case 123-064, April 2023. (Revised July 2023.)
- October 2023
- Teaching Note
Fermenting Accounting Problems at Vermont Kombucha Corp.
By: Tatiana Sandino and Marshal Herrmann
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-064. View Details
- July 2013
- Case
Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain
By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010, the company had launched what it thought would become a breakthrough product... View Details
Keywords: System Complexity; Industrial Enzymes; Ethanol; Collulosic Ethanol; Fermentation; Genomics; Genetic Engineering; Value Chain; Assembling Value Chain; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Production; Research; Research and Development; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Energy Industry; Denmark; United States
Shih, Willy, and Sen Chai. "Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 614-001, July 2013.
- Web
Podcast - Business & Environment
plantations arising from clearing and burning tropical forests, releasing carbon and destroying habitat and biodiversity. We talk with Shara Ticku, Co-founder and CEO of C16 Biosciences (and HBS alumna), which uses fermentation to produce... View Details
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
diasporas, and how entrepreneurial activity is reshaping both countries for the better. Martha Lagace: Why did you choose the title Billions of Entrepreneurs? Tarun Khanna: The title captures the ferment that is taking place in both China... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
still on their stems. Inside the state-of-the-art winery, where the cellar temperature is a constant 48 degrees, the juice is aged and fermented inside barrels coopered from air-seasoned oak staves made in France, from trees Jones... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
pair reinvented the process. Athletic’s proprietary system prevents the fermentation process from generating ethanol in the first place, an innovation that opened up a new range of NA opportunities. Where, previously, only lagers had been... View Details
- Career Coach
David Kay
help students in 3 areas: 1) advice and networking in the alternative protein industry (plant-based, precision fermentation and cultivated meat) or other foodtech startups, 2) advice about recruiting in the legacy food CPG world, and 3)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Cultural Revolution at GE
hiring outsiders for its top management ranks and stopped the merry-go-round of promotions and relocations for top managers. Immelt now wants managers to stay put and become experts in their industries, not just experts in management. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
regions around the world entered this year’s competition, with the finals taking place on campus in late April (see article). Without a doubt, the entrepreneurial ferment so evident today traces its source to the legacy of Professor... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
told the Boston Business Journal in 2009. Last spring, Wainwright Bank was sold to and merged with Eastern Bank, with Glassman continuing to serve as a director. Glassman’s values were shaped to a large extent in the crucible of the 1960s View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Renaissance fair vendor, began in 2009 to formulate a business plan to open a fair in Austin. Less than a year later, Sherwood Forest opened, and ancillary businesses—a summer camp, a sword and armor retailer called Eternal Arms, a Celtic music festival, and a line of... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
very moment, say Leonard and Swap, to wait, step back, and mull things over — or as they put it, "incubate." "A group that is hotly pursuing a tempting solution may need to be interrupted mid-gallop in order to pause for incubation," they write.... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
piped to the local municipality to heat houses through district heating. In addition, sludge from fermentation processes is used to fuel incineration for the local production of biogas. Other companies involved in these exchanges include... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
might be important. You have competing technologies, but at the same time, there are competing ways of making sense about what that technology is. Q: To look at this through a more entrepreneurial lens, it seems clear that in these periods of technological View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
fermentation in a carbon-negative biotechnology process. Solugen envisions a global-scale network of automated, carbon-sequestering mini-mills that are multi-product, drastically impacting the way chemicals are produced and transported... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
fermentation process can be repurposed to create artificial silk and self-repairing fabrics; we also can look ahead to the possibility of more lab-raised “impossible” meats, drought-resistant crops, and food suited to our particular... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Airforce Academy; SM ’05, Engineering Sciences, Harvard University Luke was the first employee at the fermentation campus of Valent BioSciences, which researches and produces biopesticides from natural... View Details