Publications

06 Jan 2014
News

Sprouts Sees Healthy Growth Ahead

Keywords: Whiole Foods; Retail Trade; Agriculture

3 Apr 2014 - 5 Apr 2014
Conference Presentation

Visualizing the Taste: The Federal Policy and Corporate Enterprises of Food Color from the 1880s to the 1930s

By: Ai Hisano

11 Aug 2022
News

These Families Thought Food Inflation Was Bad in 2021. It Only Got Worse

November 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Nestle's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food Chain and Improved Nutrition

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry Herman

Nestle is the largest milk firm in the world. For over a century, it has developed a milk model procurement program that improved the well-being of the small-scale farmer and the ultimate consumer. Can it partner with other firms and institutions to make even greater... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Value Creation; Programs; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry

15 May 2018
News

Harvard researchers say fixing food safety inspectors’ schedules could end many violations

13 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage

21 Apr 2018
Panel Discussion

Discussion of "Identification of Dynamic Games with Multiple Equilibria and Unobserved Heterogeneity with Application to Fast Food Chains In China," by Yao Luo, Ping Xiao, Ruli Xiao

By: David Hao Zhang

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December 2017
Case

Molino Cañuelas: Serving Customers from Seed Development to the Kitchen Table

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Mariana Cal

Molino Cañuelas was a vertically integrated food company with a management system that allowed it to innovate and grow systematically. With sales of $2 billion in 2016, the firm not only produced flour, vegetable oil, and packaged food products, it also owned a port... View Details

Keywords: Quality Management System; Food Industry; Molino Cañuelas; Argentina; Vertical Integration; Quality; Management Systems; Expansion; Global Range; Growth and Development Strategy; Agribusiness; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Argentina

June 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Case

Back to the Roots

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Leslie K. John

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Back to the Roots (BTTR) is a start-up with a social mission to “undo food”—to reconnect people to where their food comes from. In late 2017, Back to the Roots cofounders... View Details

Keywords: Organic Food; Startup; Crowdfunding; Sustainability; Transparency; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Product Development; Product Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Food; Food and Beverage Industry

April 2015
Teaching Note

The Board of Directors at Market Basket

By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague

Teaching Note for the Board of Directors at Market Basket Case. View Details

Keywords: Board; Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Food and Beverage Industry; North America

August 2019
Teaching Note

Back to the Roots

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan and Leslie K. John

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This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Back to the Roots HBS case No. 518-073. Back to the Roots (BTTR) is a start-up with a... View Details

Keywords: Organic Food; Startup; Crowdfunding; Sustainability; Transparency; Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Product Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Food; Food and Beverage Industry

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

March 2018 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Chewy.com (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble

In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for all of its e-commerce fulfillment or to take the function in house. Cohen worries... View Details

Keywords: Pet Food; Pet Products; Retail; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Decision Choices and Conditions; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Florida; United States

Web

FOCUS Foods Wins Social Enterprise Grand Prize 2015 | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

FOCUS Foods Wins Social Enterprise Grand Prize 2015 Julia Kurnik More Impact Stories A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations Mizuho Kanai 2018 While Mizuho Kanai (MBA 2018) was fulfilling her summer internship at NPR, her manager recommended that... View Details

spring 1986
Book Review

Book Review of No Free Lunch: Food and Revolution in Cuba Today, edited by Medea Benjamin, Joseph Collins, and Michael Scott in Calories Count in Cuba

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Food; Government and Politics; Cuba

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01 Sep 2020
News

Good Odds

pounds of food that had been prepared for customers in the catering, hotel, travel, and restaurant industries got stuck in the supply chain when the world seized up. That’s when Philip Behn (MBA 2005), CEO... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; food industry; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

01 Sep 2020
News

Elevator Pitch: First Byte

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Concept: “Alfred,” a food industry collaborative robot, or “cobot,” trained to assist in the assembly of items such as salads and View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; restaurants; food prep; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

December 2000 (Revised January 2001)
Background Note

Promise of Functional Foods, The

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Laure Mougeot Stroock

This case presents a definition of functional foods or nutraceuticals (food or food ingredients that could provide a health benefit beyond the traditional nutrients they contain), a description of some of the major obstacles to their commercialization and... View Details

Keywords: Food; Private Sector; Public Sector; Health; Product Development; Production; Commercialization; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry