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    Roger A. Enrico

    Enrico helped to transform PepsiCo through a number of major initiatives including the spin-off of its fast food restaurant chains (Tricon), the acquisition of Tropicana, and the initial public offering of... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 21 Dec 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: December 21

    This case analyzes Dow Chemical Company's proposed acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2008. The $18.8 billion acquisition was part of Dow's strategic transformation from a slow-growth, low-margin, View Details
    • 03 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 3, 2009

    case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509002 Taylor Fresh Foods Harvard Business School Case 509-008 tIn 13 years, Bruce Taylor had built Taylor Fresh Foods... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • August 2024
    • Case

    Coca Cola İçecek—Managing a Sudden Turbulence

    By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Namrata Arora and Gizem Cihan Dincsoy
    In November 2021, Kerem Kerimoğlu, Coca Cola İçecek (CCI) Group Supply Chain Development Director, is alarmed by a news headline revealing a shortage of Turkish truck drivers impacting Europe. This crisis quickly affects CCI's distribution as third-party logistics... View Details
    Keywords: Business Strategy; Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Crisis Management; Distribution; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East
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    • 24 Mar 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: March 24

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2575912   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-011 Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation Muñoz Group, which supplied supermarket chains View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    By: Ryan W. Buell
    From creating flight itineraries online, to interacting with tellers to complete complex banking transactions, to engaging with the government to address civic problems, customers are playing an increasingly vital role in the performance of operations in a broadening... View Details
    Keywords: Service Operations; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Retention; Customer Behavior; Operational Transparency; Customer Compatibility; Engagement; Customers; Decision Making; Design; Management; Operations; Quality; Relationships; Social Psychology; Technology; Value; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

      John R. Simplot

      Investing in businesses that ranged from cattle to potatoes to fertilizer, Simplot used his talent at achieving efficiency and at spotting a growing market to garner enormous profits. Simplot capitalized on the Army’s World War II demands... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • 22 Apr 2020
      • Research Event

      How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

      Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
      • 30 Jul 2019
      • News

      Turning Around Tesco

      The British-based grocery chain Tesco—the third-largest retailer in the world—recently marked its 100th anniversary with a record-setting, 30-hour dance relay in Wembley Stadium. There were other reasons to celebrate, too: The chain is back in the black after surviving... View Details
      Keywords: Tesco; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores
      • November/December 1978
      • Article

      What Comes First in Feeding the Hungry?

      By: James E. Austin
      Keywords: Food; Poverty
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      • summer 1978
      • Article

      Institutional Dimensions of the Malnutrition Problem

      By: James E. Austin
      Keywords: Nutrition; Food; Problems and Challenges
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      • 16 Sep 2013
      • News

      Canada’s Native Son

      university chancellor, he's set his sights on solving a few more issues for aboriginal Canadians and for the world. Last fall, the University of Saskatchewan announced the creation of the Institute of Global View Details
      Keywords: First Nations; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
      • 2010
      • Article

      The Strategic Use of Brand Biographies

      By: Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan and Juliet Schor
      We introduce the concept of a brand biography to describe an emerging trend in branding in which firms author a dynamic, historical account of the events that have shaped the brand over time. Using a particular type of brand biography, "the underdog," we empirically... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Brands; Brand Management; Brand Building; Brand Positioning; Competitive Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Managerial Roles; Strategy; Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Biography; Success; Perception; Markets; Power and Influence; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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      • 02 Jan 2018
      • Op-Ed

      'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

      of life in the home--should be viewed as a miserable chore. I look forward to coming home from work and spending time mindfully cooking fresh foods and ... yes, even mindfully... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 May 2017
      • Blog Post

      The Diverse Community at HBS

      Israel Trek at the end of RC year and was completely amazed by the trip our Israeli classmates had organized – history, politics, religion, culture, food – the trek had it all. I learned a ton while also... View Details
      • 03 Sep 2014
      • What Do You Think?

      Who Should Choose Your Boss?

      the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose the CEO of the company View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage
      • 01 Jun 2015
      • News

      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
      Keywords: Jason Feifer; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

        Luis Alejandro Pagani

        Keywords: Food Production
        • 16 Nov 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: November 16, 2010

        leadership changes, the trusts survived relatively intact and continued to achieve their express goal of preserving the capital Phipps created and providing income for Phipps family members. Purchase this... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

          Stephen W. Sanger

          company to the top spot in cereal sales, outpacing rival Kellogg’s for the first time since 1906. In 2001, Sanger led the merger of General Mills and Pillsbury to create one of the largest food companies in... View Details
          Keywords: Food & Tobacco