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- 09 Jan 2024
Coffee Chat with Current Student in San Francisco (10 AM)
Join current HBS student, Steph Schor, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 20 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Tel Aviv (10 AM)
Join current HBS student, Raphael Maarek, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 20 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Tel Aviv (9 AM)
Join current HBS student, Raphael Maarek, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 20 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Garden Grove (10 AM)
Join current HBS student, Brenda Pham, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 18 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in São Paulo (3 PM)
Join current HBS student, Bernardo Mergar, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 28 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in San Diego (11 AM)
Join current HBS student, Brad Wilkin, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 28 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in San Diego (10 AM)
Join current HBS student, Brad Wilkin, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 29 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Los Angeles (12 PM)
Join current HBS student, Dennis Cha, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 29 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Dar Es Salaam (4 PM)
Join current HBS student, Calvin Marambo, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- February 23, 2023
- Article
How to Build a Life: Happiness Is a Warm Coffee
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Happiness Is a Warm Coffee." The Atlantic (February 23, 2023).
- 19 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Ann Arbor (12 PM)
Join current HBS student, Nick Ford, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- 15 Mar 2023
Life at HBS Coffee Chat in Tel Aviv with Current Student
Join current HBS student and Tel Aviv native, Igal Raich, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions! Registrants can stay for...
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- 20 Dec 2023
Coffee Chat with Current Student in Rio de Janeiro (10 AM)
Join current HBS student, Ana Vitoria França, in a casual setting to hear more about life as a full-time MBA student at Harvard Business School. This session will primarily be an informal Q&A, so come prepared with your questions!
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- Research Summary
Overview
Dr. Lurtz researches the history of agricultural economies in Latin America. She has a particular interest in export agriculture and attendant state- and locally-driven modernization projects. Her current work looks to the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the 19th...
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Keywords:
Coffee Production;
Institutions;
Property Rights;
Labor History;
Credit;
Modernization;
Development Economics;
Rural Scope;
Trade;
Food;
Agribusiness;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Goods and Commodities;
History;
Growth and Development;
Emerging Markets;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico;
Central America
- January 2018
- Case
OldTown Berhad
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
In December 2017, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE, a Dutch coffee company) made an offer to acquire OldTown Berhad (OTB), a Malaysian coffee company. Three large shareholders, representing more than half of the outstanding shares, have agreed to tender their shares, and...
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Keywords:
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF);
Malaysia;
Coffee;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Free Cash Flow (FCF);
Multiples;
Bidding Premia;
Netherlands;
Tender Offer;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Value Creation;
Food;
Investment Return;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Malaysia;
Netherlands;
Singapore;
Asia
Esty, Benjamin C., and Greg Saldutte. "OldTown Berhad." Harvard Business School Case 218-058, January 2018.
- January 2018
- Supplement
OldTown Berhad
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Greg Saldutte
In December 2017, Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE, a Dutch coffee company) made an offer to acquire OldTown Berhad (OTB), a Malaysian coffee company. Three large shareholders, representing more than half of the outstanding shares, have agreed to tender their shares and...
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Keywords:
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF);
Malaysia;
Coffee;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Free Cash Flow (FCF);
Multiples;
Bidding Premia;
Netherlands;
Tender Offer;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Value Creation;
Food;
Investment Return;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Malaysia;
Netherlands;
Singapore;
Asia
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords:
Commodities;
Coffee;
Mexico;
Foreign Investment;
Institutions;
Immigration;
Developing Agriculture;
Development;
Export Crop;
Emerging Market;
Property Rights;
Labor History;
History;
Capital Markets;
Business History;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico;
Central America
- February 2013 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Juan Valdez: Innovation in Caffeination
By: Michael I. Norton and Jeremy Dann
Corporate entrepreneurs attempt to revive Colombia's famous Juan Valdez brand in the age of Starbucks, with café chain and packaged coffee ventures. In the 1970s and 80s, the iconic "Juan Valdez" ingredient brand was the most recognized in the world of coffee. The...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Branding;
Global Business;
Sales;
Marketing;
Retailing;
Corporate Strategy;
Organizational Change;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Brands and Branding;
Innovation and Invention
Norton, Michael I., and Jeremy Dann. "Juan Valdez: Innovation in Caffeination." Harvard Business School Case 513-090, February 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
- October 2002 (Revised May 2004)
- Case
Starbucks and Conservation International
By: James E. Austin and Cate Reavis
Starbucks, the world's leading specialty coffee company, developed a strategic alliance with Conservation International, a major international environmental nonprofit organization. The purpose of the alliance was to promote coffee-growing practices of small farms that...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Production;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Cooperative Ownership;
Performance Efficiency;
Alliances;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Mexico
Austin, James E., and Cate Reavis. "Starbucks and Conservation International." Harvard Business School Case 303-055, October 2002. (Revised May 2004.)