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- April 1991 (Revised July 1991)
- Supplement
RJR Nabisco Board: Guardians of the Gate? (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The special committee of the RJR Nabisco board has extended the bidding deadline for the company by 10 days. The case explains the process by which Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the management group bid against one another for ownership of RJR Nabisco. The board of... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Situation or Environment; Bids and Bidding; Decision Making; Managerial Roles; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Lorsch, Jay W. "RJR Nabisco Board: Guardians of the Gate? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 491-121, April 1991. (Revised July 1991.)
- 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
Bonoma, Thomas V. Frito-Lay, Inc.: Grandma's ""Ready-To-Eat"" Cookies. Harvard Business School Case 584-043, November 1983. (Revised December 1984.)
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies across and within activities vary by activity and type of organic expansion; and (4) across-activity internal economies are asymmetric. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
including a 20-article investigative series in the New York Times that discovered similar cases at other hospitals. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started investigations of the CT devices, dozens... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear grape spirit of South America .the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
guest counts on a daily basis across the restaurant portfolio as well as operating metrics such as speed and accuracy of service and food quality. Also very important are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture -... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Working PapersThe Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community Authors:Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards Abstract In this paper, we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.
around with our kids (Lazer age 4 and Yara age 2!) and let us intrude on them when we’re miles from home. My sectionmates simply astound me. One shunned a seven figure salary to live on View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
escalating production of beef, soy, and timber, focusing initially on South America. The two organizations support global institutional investors pressing food and timber... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
an executive at several food companies, Silk had revived other century-old brands such as Jell-O, Lea & Perrins, Hebrew National, and Armour. Based on those successes, New York–based hedge fund York Capital... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture -... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
neighboring sites to collectively build out local geothermal operations. Tomato Vision also works with nearby chemical producers to use and absorb their waste CO2 to stimulate plant growth. Syngenta also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
use of agricultural chemicals in this country...so that our supply of food will be reduced to [Iron Curtain] parity.” Readers and reporters jumped into the fray. Some... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
in the economy in order to conserve foreign exchange, and to allocate the limited resources available at the time to a few sectors that could provide critical basic commodities, such as chemicals View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details
- November 2001 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Resinas Sinteticas, S.A. (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Paine, Lynn S., and Greg Rogers. "Resinas Sinteticas, S.A. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 302-065, November 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture -... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
middle class—outweigh the challenges of operating there. And indeed, as embodied by Nigeria's status as a net food importer despite having 80 million hectares of potential agricultural land, the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne