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Louis F. Swift
Capitalizing on his father’s success, Louis Swift continued to expand the meat packing company even further. During his tenure the family company became the largest meat packer in the United States and was also one of the most efficient, always focusing on improving... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Andrew W. Preston
Under Preston’s leadership, United Fruit grew from a small banana seller into a large tropical fruit enterprise, with extensive distribution networks and landholdings, as well as operations in the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Joy Morton
Morton founded the Morton Salt Company, which became the most important firm in the salt industry under his leadership. By 1927, the company produced upwards of 600,000 tons of evaporated salt per annum and also distributed 400,000 tons of rock salt, which it processed... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Oscar Gottfried Mayer
During his presidency, Mayer sought ways to improve operating efficiency through techniques of industrial engineering. He introduced cardboard cartons for sausages and vacuum-sealed, twin packs for hot dogs, which were then advances in packaging. He also improved the... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
J. Bruce Llewellyn
Llewellyn was involved in a wide variety of business ventures, almost all of which were extremely profitable. He excelled at leveraged buy-outs, and two years after accomplishing a buy-out of the Philadelphia Coca-Cola Bottling Company, he had increased business by 300... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Edward T. Bedford
In 1906, Bedford became president of the newly consolidated Corn Products Refining Company. Under Bedford’s leadership, Corn Products Refining manufactured several forms of oil, including “Mazola,” several forms of sugar, and a grain syrup called “Karo.” Bedford was... View Details
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Henry J. Heinz
Heinz, who started peddling his homegrown produce when he was 8, entered the twentieth century as the nation’s largest producer of pickles, vinegar, ketchup and mustard. He was considered an advertising and merchandising genius and received many awards for his model... View Details
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William H. Danforth
In 1894, Danforth opened a feed business in St. Louis. Over the next several years, Danforth’s Ralston Purina Company established mills in St. Louis and 32 other cities in the U.S. and Canada. Danforth created the famous Chow brand name, as well as the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
William K. Coors
Under Coors' leadership, the brewery underwent a period of massive growth. Though it was a regional brewery, it held the top market share in 10 of the 11 western states in which its product was distributed, becoming the 4th largest brewer in the United States in the... View Details
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Asa G. Candler
The breakthrough for Coca-Cola came shortly after the company was formed, when Candler realized the potential of his patent syrup not as a miracle drug, but as a simple soda fountain drink. Candler sent salesmen across the U.S. instructing druggists how to market... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 04 Dec 2013
- News
A Problem Shared Is a Company Aligned
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
Petrochemicals are all around us—from ubiquitous plastic packaging to the inconspicuous lining of your takeaway coffee cup, and in everyday products like soaps, deodorants, and toothpaste. But that will change, according to Matthew Perkins (MBA 2009). When industries... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Matthew PrebleHarvard Business School Case 912-402 George Weston, CEO of Associated British Foods, and his top executives are deciding how to position the company, a major agribusiness involved in a range of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Leticia Tavares On Marriott's Management Acceleration Program
Annual Atlanta Community Food Bank Big Dish, as a restaurant manager, as a housekeeper, as a server, and have spent time learning Marriott’s sales processes in our Southeast sales office. My next role will be in Human Resources at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
supplemental video content online to those visiting theaters as well as an opportunity to watch the same movie with friends and family later at home? Or building online/offline communities around local theaters in addition to competing with View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
ignore. Immigration policies rooted in common sense, he says, will—in the long run—benefit the United States as well as the 42 million immigrants who call this country home. Quoted "New York City—I don't miss it. Not one bit. The streets reek of View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Amram Migdal and Susan Pinckney
Arla implemented a data-based price incentive system to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world’s fourth largest dairy cooperative. View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
this result and assessing how future work in this field should proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Modeling Expert Opinions on Food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
basically doing nothing else except for fighting the pandemic is pretty amazing. And specifically where that comes from, we think about carbon footprints in four categories, at least at the consumer level: travel, food and drink,... View Details