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James B. Duke
Five principal cigarette manufacturing companies merged to form American Tobacco in 1890 with Duke as head and with a capitalization of $25 million. In 1895, Duke began an aggressive campaign to absorb companies making other kinds of tobacco products. Duke organized... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Ben Cohen
Cohen with his partner, Jerry Greenfield, created a business that was known as much for its socially conscious employment and philanthropy policies as for its high quality, unique ice cream flavors. During his tenure as CEO, Cohen ensured that Ben & Jerry's donated... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Illustration by Erin Robinson At one end of the global coffee supply chain are the diners who gather for brunch at the sidewalk tables outside Chloe’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Regulars there order the fluffy banana-walnut pancakes and steaming... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Cheese Whiz
At Specialty Cheese Co. in Reeseville, Wisconsin, founder Paul Scharfman (MBA 1979) heads up a company that makes one of the state’s best-known exports: cheese. But as its name suggests, Specialty’s 250 employees manufacture products more unusual than the standard... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Business School Case 909-403 Transformation of COFCO in a Changing Environment China's COFCO, the country's leading edible oil and food importer and exporter and its largest food manufacturer, had in its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
preparations; publicly advertised medicinal, pharmaceutical and dentifrice preparations; food products; household products; cosmetics and toilet preparations; and chemicals, organic colors and pigments, dye stuffs and intermediates."... View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
look and design to inspire a positive reaction. By the holiday season in 2014, Be Mixed launched its first major production run and is currently being sold in 17 different food stores in the New York City area. The pair also unveiled a... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
caused the medical establishment to radically reverse its position. Parents were now warned that delaying the introduction of these types of foods increased a baby's risk of food allergies. Adeo Health... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Aspa Lekka
one of the top analysts in digital marketing in Germany, and I got a lot of offers." Meanwhile, Aspa was still competing professionally, and completing a Ph.D. in education, for which her research focused on how to help children learn statistics using digital... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
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Native American Heritage Month | Baker Library
hidden stories and knowledge in Baker Collections. Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Food Processing as a Combined Economic Development Option for Indian Communities [1977] View Record This diagram comes from a 1977 report prepared for the... View Details
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Community | HBS Online
five-year anniversary. Here’s what our nonprofit partners had to say: Play the Challenge's five-year anniversary Video Since launching the Community Challenge, HBS Online has collaborated with: The Greater Boston Food Bank to help achieve... View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
classroom training as they explore... Turning Africa’s Biggest Challenges into Global Business Opportunities: Summer Fellow Rashveena Rajaram (MBA 2022) Rashveena Rajaram 22 Jul 2021 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based conglomerate whose operating units... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
everything from electronics and sporting goods to food and drugs. Recently, with Goodrich focusing increasingly on the aerospace industry, Price oversaw the leveraged buyout of his division and bid farewell to Goodrich last spring. Now,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
interested in sustainability and the environment will find plenty of company on campus. In addition to becoming Student Sustainability Associates, students can join three clubs (the Energy and Environment Club; the Food and Agriculture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
to craft a case that captures the dynamics common across many situations, and that also brings in unique elements from individual examples to highlight important themes. With 450 employees and more than $300 million Canadian in annual revenue, Stoy View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
concessions company and building it into Boston Culinary Group, of which he is chairman and CEO. The firm does business in forty states, supplying food and drink to arenas and convention centers and operating theaters, ski resorts, and... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
For business executives trying to decide where exactly in the digital realm to invest their advertising dollars, new research indicates that paid search ads on review sites such as Yelp can be a good way to go—at least for small, lesser-known companies. Harvard... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
On Tuesday, the family of deceased musician and celebrated marijuana user Bob Marley announced what it claimed will be the first global cannabis brand, Marley Natural. Suddenly, marijuana is a growth industry—and increasingly, a legal one. When the smoke cleared after... View Details