Publications

Gerber created the baby foods market as well as the company’s advertising campaign - the “Gerber Baby,” a symbol that became world-famous. By 1973, Gerber was the world’s largest supplier of baby foods with... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

October 1999 (Revised October 2000)
Case

Coca-Cola Company (A), The

By: David F. Hawkins

In order to fully appreciate Coca-Cola's profitability, financial risk, and operating risk, Jane Wilson, a security analyst, is considering preparing a consolidated financial statement for Coca-Cola analyzing Coca-Cola Enterprises as a fully consolidated entity. View Details

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Statements; Business Earnings; History; Private Sector; Business Units; Consolidation; Organizations; Operations; Private Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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

August 2007
Teaching Note

Academia Barilla (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman

Teaching Note to (507-001). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Italy

April 2006 (Revised April 2008)
Teaching Note

YUM! Brands, Inc: A Corporate Do-Over (TN)

By: Frances X. Frei and Amy C. Edmondson

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

August 2005 (Revised May 2006)
Teaching Note

Accounting at MacCloud Winery (TN)

By: David F. Hawkins and Gregory S. Miller

Teaching Note to (9-105-081). View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Food and Beverage Industry

January 1982 (Revised November 1982)
Case

General Foods: Productivity Measurement Program

By: Robert H. Hayes and Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry

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June 1990 (Revised June 2004)
Teaching Note

Nestle Alimentana S.A. -- Infant Formula (Abridged) TN

By: James E. Austin and Tomas Otto Kohn

Teaching Note for (9-590-070). View Details

Keywords: Nutrition; Food and Beverage Industry

April 1982
Case

Total Cereal

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John A. Quelch

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

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April 2010
Teaching Note

Swire Beverages: Implementing CSR in China

By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason

Teaching Note for [410021]. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Health; Organizational Design; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Safety; Natural Environment; Brands and Branding; Interests; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; China

December 2009 (Revised November 2012)
Teaching Note

Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old (TN)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Teaching Note for [910405]. View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Segmentation; Competitive Advantage; Globalized Firms and Management; Consumer Behavior; Industry Structures; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

January 2015
Case

Brentwood Associates: Exiting Zoës Kitchen

By: Joan Farre-Mensa and Stephanie Siu

The case discusses the trade-offs associated with the different exit options that private equity firm Brentwood Associates contemplated for its investment in Zoës Kitchen during the summer of 2013: an IPO, a sale to a strategic or financial acquirer, or waiting a few... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Entrepreneurship; Food and Beverage Industry; California

July 1982 (Revised December 1984)
Case

Esmark, Inc. (A)

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Involves the management of a firm with a market value of a going concern that is less than its breakup value. How does management maximize value for shareholders in this environment? View Details

Keywords: Finance; Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value; Food and Beverage Industry

Heinz II engineered immense growth for the food products firm. In his first few years as president, Heinz took advantage of the postwar boom in the American economy and took the firm public in 1946. Through... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

31 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

over a shared love of India (we both lived there at various times), startups, and the natural foods space. We even realized that we had a mutual friend who then turned out to be one of our first investors... View Details

14 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

well. As a result, these organizations staff very carefully, hiring for attitude and then training for skills, whether the business is fast food or cutting-edge medical organizations such as the Mayo Clinic.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Leonard A. Schlesinger; Retail

December 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Supplement

General Mills (B)

By: Raymond V. Gilmartin, Marco Iansiti and Bianca Buccitelli

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry