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- December 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
Nestle S.A.
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
Peter Brabeck wants to focus Nestle as a wellness company in the global food system and do so in a way that provides both growth in sales and margins in both developed and developing countries. View Details
- December 2001 (Revised June 2002)
- Case
Monsanto: Technology Cooperation and Small Holder Farmer Projects
By: James E. Austin, Diana Barrett and Stephanie Oestreich
As the leading plant technology company in the global food system, how can Monsanto share this technology with small-sale producers and not-for-profit researchers and institutions? View Details
- December 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
National Cooperative Council for Agriculture and Horticulture of the Netherlands, The
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Cate Reavis
As the No. 1 cooperative country in the world and the second leading trading country in the world, how do the cooperatives of the Netherlands organize to provide leadership in the global food system? View Details
- December 2001
- Case
Dairy.com
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Dairy.com's ecommerce exchange attempts to provide value to the dairy industry through price discovery mechanisms. View Details
- November 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
OSI Group
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
Discusses the challenges facing a global food service supplier and the company's ability to partner with major customers, such as McDonald's. View Details
- November 2001
- Case
Aventis CropScience and StarLink Corn
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Aventis CropScience responds to the discovery of an unapproved corn variety in food supplies and draws lessons for the company, industry, and governments. View Details
- September 2001 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Eskimo Pie Corporation (Abridged)
In early 1991, Reynolds Metals, the makers of aluminum products, decided to sell its holding of Eskimo Pie, a marketer of branded frozen novelties. Reynolds had an offer from Nestle to acquire Eskimo Pie. However, Reynolds decided instead to make an initial public... View Details
- February 2001 (Revised September 2002)
- Teaching Note
Howard Schultz and Starbucks Coffee Company (TN)
By: Nancy F. Koehn and William Grundy
Teaching Note for (9-801-361). View Details
- January 2001
- Case
Achieving Customer Satisfaction at Pizza Hut (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- December 2000
- Case
Daymon Associates
By: Ray A. Goldberg
How does a firm act as a coordinater between the food retailer and manufacturer and satisfy both? View Details
- December 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Loblaw Companies Ltd.: The Road Ahead
By: Ray A. Goldberg, David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
After 24 years at the helm of Loblaw Companies, Canada's largest food retailer, Richard Currie is trying to decide on a strategy for the company's future. The firm's current emphasis on one-stop shopping for everyday household needs has been phenomenally successful.... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Distribution; Food; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
- December 2000 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
Victor Semenov: A Journey From the Plan to the Market
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Pavel Sorokin
- December 2000 (Revised January 2001)
- Background Note
Promise of Functional Foods, The
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Laure Mougeot Stroock
This case presents a definition of functional foods or nutraceuticals (food or food ingredients that could provide a health benefit beyond the traditional nutrients they contain), a description of some of the major obstacles to their commercialization and... View Details
- December 2000
- Case
Friona Industries, L.P.
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
As the food industry becomes more sophisticated, and as genomics and other factors provide for quality control from the producers to the consumers in the food chain, the beef industry has been one of the last commodity systems to organize the vertical systems to... View Details
- November 2000
- Case
Dean Foods
By: Ray A. Goldberg, David E. Bell, Ann Leamon and Kim Slack
After 50 years of successful growth, mostly by acquisition, Dean Foods, the nation's second-largest dairy processor, has established a division to develop and market branded products nationally. Can a $4 billion company rely on a $300 million growth vehicle? Is this... View Details
- June 2000 (Revised January 2010)
- Teaching Note
BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-300-018). View Details
- December 1999 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In the fall of 1999, Kumio Egashira, president of Ajinomoto, a 90-year old, Japan-based processed foods and specialty chemicals company, and his team of senior executives were deciding how to globally maximize the synergies that existed between their food and amino... View Details
- November 1999 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Sam Huttenbauer: Entrepreneurship in Food Preservation and Nutraceuticals
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Stacey J. Bell and David Benedict Pearcy
Sam Huttenbauer is trying to get two companies, in high-pressure food preservation and in nutraceuticals, off the ground. This case covers strategic, marketing, and financing challenges. It also looks at innovative technologies in the food industry and the role of the... View Details
- November 1999 (Revised December 1999)
- Case
U.S. Government and Food Safety, The
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Hal Hogan
- November 1999 (Revised December 1999)
- Case
Safe Food Act, The: A Consumer Group's Perspective
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Hal Hogan
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is taking a position on creating a new safety leadership vehicle in the U.S. government. How should it plead its cause? What are the position merits and faults? View Details
Keywords: Food; System; Consumer Behavior; Government and Politics; Safety; Leadership; United States