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February 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Koita Foods

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Elie Ofek and Michael Norris

In 2018, Mustafa Koita, Founder and CEO of Dubai-based organic milk company Koita has to decide whether or not to pursue an investment from a potential competitor who is coming into his local market. View Details

Keywords: Organic Milk; Mom Blog; Entrepreneurship; Cash Flow; Food; Growth Management; Investment; Social Marketing; Ownership Stake; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Arab Emirates; Dubai

May 2016 (Revised June 2017)
Case

India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Tarun Khanna, Namrata Arora and Tanya Bijlani

Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British rule—and owned by over three million farmers in the state of Gujarat. It is India's largest food product marketing organization, selling 46 products, including... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Expansion; Dairy; India; Cooperatives; Milk; Leadership; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Competition; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India

February 2017
Teaching Note

India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times

By: Tarun Khanna, Rohit Deshpandé and Namrata Arora

Teaching Note for HBS No. 516-116. View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Expansion; Dairy; India; Cooperatives; Milk; Leadership; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Competition; Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; India

November 2006
Case

Organics: Coming Center Stage?

By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin

The organics movement has certainly come a long way. From hippie farming communes and a scattering of natural food stores in the 1960s, organics outgrew its origins as a counterculture curiosity of the 1970s to become the fastest growing segment of the food industry in... View Details

Keywords: Food; Supply and Industry; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

November 2015 (Revised November 2016)
Case

Huaxia: Building a U.S.-Style Dairy in China

By: Tarun Khanna, Nancy Hua Dai and Juan Ma

In 2015, Charles Shao, chairman of Huaxia, considered the alternatives to ensure sustainable growth of Huaxia and rebuild the overall health of China's dairy industry. He came to China in 2004 and set up Huaxia dairy farm with the goal to build a world-class dairy farm... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emerging Markets; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China

March 2021 (Revised May 2021)
Case

ALDDN: Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria

By: Meg Rithmire and Debora L. Spar

In 2020, Ndidi Nwuneli, founder and CEO of Sahel Consulting in Nigeria, faced a thorny set of problems. Her firm partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a large project to develop the local dairy industry as a way to facilitate equitable growth and... View Details

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Rural Scope; Growth and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Equality and Inequality; Food and Beverage Industry; Consulting Industry; Nigeria

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

For those without children, the with-bags participants were more likely to imagine buying ice cream and potato chips than the -without-bags- participants. But the results couldn't speak to organic items; while participants listed items... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

music, just like grocery shoppers buying organic milk or fair trade coffee." This lesson applies across all businesses. "We think this is only true for artists and entertainers, but it's true for making... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

collaboration. Second, they didn't organize effectively for collaboration, believing that innovation could be managed much like production and partners treated like "suppliers." And third, they didn't invest in building... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

School Module Note 608-076 Introduces students to the concepts covered in the Managing in the Information Age module on Network IT. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608076 Nestle Milk... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

steam milk properly. For Schultz, however, that wasn't enough—he wanted to reach the company's store managers, recognizing them as essential to the transformation process. "I needed an unfiltered venue for expressing my empathy about... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

including aging populations and medical technology. But an underlying and misunderstood source of health care’s escalating costs has been the inability of health care provider organizations (such as large academic medical centers) to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

Nestlé's Milk Districts: Case Supplement Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Supplement 906-411 Nestlé, as the largest milk company in the world, has a history of economic development,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high school students completing high school at... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

when more than 50 people in 11 states were sickened by an initial E. coli outbreak. “Do those smaller local organic growers have the experience, resources, and commitment to test their products for various food safety risks?” The chain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

1870-1940,” which examines a seminal period when food manufacturers, dye makers, and regulators created the synthetic food coloring industry. She is working on a wide-ranging book on the color of foods. (Her book project was featured recently on Process, the blog of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

network clustering on problem-solving behavior and performance. The finding both provides a sharper tool for structuring organizations for knowledge work and reveals the challenges inherent in manipulating network structure to enhance... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Simplification and Saving By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian Abstract—The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness Harvard Business School Case 106-063 Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche must decide how to market infant View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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