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15 Nov 2016
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Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad

hone their leadership, teamwork, and design thinking skills to prepare for their Brazil immersion. The process informed the goal: to help their partner company attract more young families to the bakery chain and scale the business. “In... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

January 2007 (Revised November 2007)
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Organic Growth at Wal-Mart

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Troy Smith

In 2005, an executive vice president at Wal-Mart must decide whether to expand the retailer's selection of organic food. The decision is made in the context of wider attempts to move the giant retailer slightly upscale and to focus on environmental sustainability. View Details

Keywords: Food; Growth and Development Strategy; Product; Business Processes; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Retail Industry; United States

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11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

continue their enrollment in food assistance, in food stamps. The process is much harder than it should be or needs to be, and some of that can actually be solved by designing... View Details

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Staff Catering Guidelines | About

Staff Catering Guidelines Introduction HBS does not pay for meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks) when the only recipients are HBS employees. This includes meals catered by Restaurant Associates, or any other food service vendors... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

flavors like Cookies ’N Cream, invented a proprietary process that in 1987 produced the first “light” ice cream, and launched the first line of frozen yogurt sold in half-gallon containers. (Slow Churned ice cream, with half the fat and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

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Paul Scharfman

public funding to upgrade the Reeseville, Wisconsin, water treatment plant, which processes his company’s effluent. “It’s important to assist projects that can upgrade local infrastructure and support business growth,” he explains.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Retail

31 Mar 2022
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Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

startup, and their successful experience bringing an HBS intern into their Business Intelligence team. Meet Mori Mori is a technology company focused on innovations in the food, agriculture, and packaging industries. Mori’s proprietary View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

23 May 2019
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These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

Kola Masha (MBA 2006) are working to unlock the potential of agriculture in West Africa. The Nwunelis—a husband and wife team—co-founded AACE Food Processing & Distribution Ltd. in 2009 to combat... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

09 Apr 2016
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Introducing Panera 2.0

As Panera Bread opens its 2,000 location, founder and CEO Ron Shaich (MBA 1978) is preparing to launch Panera 2.0, the company’s ambitious plan to use technology to speed up the ordering process and enhance delivery options. Shaich tells... View Details

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

multi-level antecedents, mediating processes, and outcomes. We also discuss error management processes such as prevention, resilience, and learning and call for research to expand our currently limited understanding of how these View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Aug 2011
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A Toast to Macchu Pisco

of returning to work at Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company, but I decided HBS had given me all the tools I needed to take the entrepreneurial risk.” Asher is personally involved in the production cycle in Peru, monitoring the overall View Details

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

Saffronart, and food businesses Whole Foods and the James Beard Foundation. Khaire created the course, she says, because these industries function in fundamentally different ways than those in industries... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage

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 View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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Market trends, opportunities in advanced technology fields

transportation technologies, biotechnology, chemicals, energy and resources, engineering, the environment, food and beverage, fuel cell and battery technologies, healthcare, information technology, instrumentation and sensors... View Details

March 2012 (Revised July 2018)
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V-Cola: General Instructions

By: Ian Larkin and Hal Movius

V-Cola is a six-party exercise that simulates a negotiation between a boutique advertising agency and a beverage company that is launching a new product. Each of the six parties has different incentives and information, which leads to a complex, realistic simulation... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Process; Contracts; Information; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

Although much of the globe is awash in it, the allocation of water for human consumption is anything but easy. As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts foresee a global water crisis (and resulting View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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Peek into Business | MBA

business and the diverse career paths it creates. Peek into Business provides an understanding of: What Is Business? Explore the broad definition of "business" and consider how understanding it can be valuable—from a strawberry farmer managing supply chains to a View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

currently engages over 1,000 young Nigerians. AACE Foods sources from 10,000 farmers and processes spices, seasonings, and complementary food for local markets and export. We... View Details

21 Jun 2017
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Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits

assets, particularly agriculture, is the asset class that is most susceptible to climate change. The global food system contributes upwards of one-third of all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions, so agriculture is also an area where... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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