Food and Chemicals - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2017
News

Starting Lineup: No Reservations

around the world. Blue Apron Cofounder and CEO Matt Salzberg (MBA 2010) Founded 2012 This meal-kit company delivers all the ingredients you need to make a home-cooked dinner. Reports say that the company is on track to surpass $1 billion... View Details

2009
Simulation

Finance Simulation: M&A in Wine Country (Facilitator's Guide)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, W. Carl Kester and Heide Diener Abelli

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Valuation; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

Citation

Ilitch built a small take-out pizza shop in Detroit into a 4,700 chain enterprise. At a time when take-out food was still a novelty, Ilitch catered to an increasingly mobile and convenience-oriented... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging

Profile

Jeremy Burnham

In the past year, Jeremy Burnham, a chemical engineer with a background in oil and energy, has experienced a dizzying succession of transitions. “Last June, my wife Perisha and... View Details

Profile

Gerald Chertavian

founded that helps economically disadvantaged young adults gain skills for professional careers. Chertavian’s inspiration for Year Up stems from his experience as a volunteer in the Big Brother Big Sister program. After earning a degree in economics from Bowdoin... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship; Services

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

sometimes their partner and children. HBS creates a diverse environment in every imaginable way, and as a result every section has some Asian-Americans with different work experience. The Asian-American... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni

Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

Student-Profile

Ta-Wei "David" Huang

assumptions about how firms target interventions. David has identified systematic biases in the traditional approach and is seeking to find a better way to address the issues by combining causal inference, machine learning, View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Life Lessons

cultural and political perspective.” Next she was admitted to the prestigious University of the Witwatersrand where, in 1996, she became the first black woman to graduate from the school of chemical... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

Portrait Project

Michelle Henry

Dragging my IV pole into the kitchen, I slapped the bag of nutrients that was pumping ‘dinner’ into my arm. “This bad boy is tastier than pizza!” Guilty faces cracked into laughter as my parents scooted over so I could finally join them. Every day after that, I... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Ink

March 2016 We can achieve presence when we need it, Cuddy argues, through a combination of body postures, behavior, and mindset, which activate chemical changes in the body. Expansive “power poses” can cause... View Details

August 1992 (Revised October 2001)
Teaching Note

Mrs. Fields Cookies TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate and James I. Cash Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-189-056). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

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November 2000
Teaching Note

Sendwine.com TN

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Abby J. Hansen PHD

Teaching Note for (9-800-211). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

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01 Dec 2017
News

A Shared Vision for a Better World

because he was impressed by, among other things, the case method and by several alumni colleagues at Chemical Bank. “It was clear they had been superbly educated,” he says. Upon arriving on the HBS campus,... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected... View Details

December 1996 (Revised November 2006)
Background Note

General Mills, Inc.: Appendix of Comparable Company Data

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Financial ratios for comparable companies to be used in conjunction with an analysis of the General Mills Annual Report. View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Analytics and Data Science; Food and Beverage Industry

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June 1995 (Revised July 2006)
Supplement

Barilla SpA (B)

By: Janice H. Hammond

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Production; Distribution; Sales; Demand and Consumers; Programs; Food and Beverage Industry; Italy

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01 Oct 1998
News

Supplying Demand

line of generic foods to be sold in the United States - and had spawned his first nationwide trend in the process. His brandless foods concept helped propel Star from fourth... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

Portrait Project

Samantha Gray

I want to stretch my heart to the breaking as a wife, a lover, a mother. I want to be there for my little sister and baby brother when life isn't fair. I want amazing friends who order Indian food that I'll... View Details

December 2010
Article

Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate

By: Rohit Deshpandé

The article discusses the "provenance paradox," wherein consumers are unwilling to buy high-quality products from regions not commonly associated with excellence in certain product categories. Venezuelan chocolate maker Chocolates El Rey does little international... View Details