food and beverage - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2010
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Setting an Industry Standard

Keywords: beer; brewaries; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

January 2022
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SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher

A continuation of the events described in the (A) Case, “SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants,” (HBS Case No. 222-022). View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

personal and professional network across three continents. The case considers the steps he has taken to build and cultivate a network that creates value for himself and others.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
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around food and drink. A frequent campus visitor, Dick Spangler remembers the day in Dean Clark’s office when the subject of a campus center first came up. “The Dean said, ‘I need to talk to you about... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

January 1994
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National Convenience Stores, Inc.

By: Steven R. Fenster, Stuart C. Gilson and Roy Burstin

National Convenience Stores seeks to emerge from Chapter 11. Central to the nature of the reorganization plan is the company's determining enterprise value. The various constituencies (secured debt, unsecured debt, etc.) will seek to find an enterprise value that... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Valuation; Restructuring; Strategic Planning; Borrowing and Debt; Food and Beverage Industry; Texas

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01 Mar 2004
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Zanzibar: Something for Everyone

The Zanzibar portion of the trip allowed us to slow our pace and take advantage of the seaside resort as well as a series of optional side trips. Given the legendary lure of Zanzibar as one of the Spice Islands, many of us elected to take... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

November 1983 (Revised December 1984)
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: Grandma's ""Ready-To-Eat"" Cookies

Mr. Kenneth Treece, marketing director of Frito-Lay's Grandma's (R) Cookie division has received the final test market figures for the new supermarket line of Grandma's Ready-To-Eat cookies. One set of data, the Kansas City test results, was extremely encouraging;... View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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Overview

By: Gerald C. Chertavian

I am currently teaching Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) as a 2nd year Elective Course. The premise of the course is that social entrepreneurs don’t just build organizations, they change systems. The course explores the frameworks, tools, mindsets,... View Details

Keywords: Social Impact; Systems Change; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Housing; Climate Change; Entrepreneurship; Food; Governance; Leadership; Measurement and Metrics; Social Enterprise; System; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; South America

November 1983
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Pepsi-Cola United Kingdom (B)

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Edward J. Hoff

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom; United States

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23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

CEO of the world's largest food and beverage company. His predecessor, Peter Brabeck, had delivered 12 years of outstanding results while moving the company toward a new vision... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2000
Teaching Note

Boston Beer Company: Light Beer Decision TN

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and John T. Gourville

Teaching Note for (9-899-058). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Boston

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Taking the helm of Heinz from his father, Howard continued to build the company through internal growth and development. He deftly managed the company through the Depression by introducing low cost, processed View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

September 1993 (Revised December 1993)
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Cott Corp.: Private Label in the 1990s

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Robert S. Kaplan

Private label cola, Cott, gets 30% of the market in Canada. How does it move into the U.S. market? How do retailers evaluate its benefit costs? Does Cott use an existing structure or build new ones? Does Cott diversify from drink to snack foods? View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Cost Management; Labels; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Diversification; Food and Beverage Industry

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14 Jul 2021
News

The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

one-third of all the food in the world is wasted.” How does the company’s food distribution process work? “We focus on resolving the nutritional needs of community kitchens by distributing high-quality... View Details

20 Nov 2019
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From the Ground Up

Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education... View Details

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

May 1986
Case

U.S. Retail Coffee Market (A), Software Case

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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March 2007
Teaching Note

Organics: Coming Center Stage? (TN)

By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin

Keywords: Food

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12 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

information standards in accounting (through the Financial Accounting Standards Board) and in food labeling (through the Food and Drug... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
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The End of Cows?

affect far more than your dinner. “It’s potentially severely disruptive in that it gets a lot of the current players out of the market and completely changes the supply chain,” says Alvarez, who explores this impact in a new case study... View Details