Publications

August 1990
Case

General Foods Corp.: Adapting to the New Electronic Media

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Advertising; Media; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry

08 May 2018
News

How HBS Helped Wolfgang Puck Build a Food Empire

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

2012
Working Paper

The Effect of Supply Chain Complementarities on Local Food

By: Baris Ata, Deishin Lee and Mustafa H. Tongarlak

We study the operational tradeoffs of a retailer and farmers in a fresh produce supply chain to determine the equilibrium supply chain structure. These operational tradeoffs arise as a result of the geographic constraints posed by the availability of arable land and... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Supply Chain; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, and his... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Global Conservation Trust, The: A Foundation for Food Security

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Biodiversity is being lost due to the delegation of the ability to store and maintain various types of plants to governments and foundations with no or little financial base. How does one develop the resources to maintain plant diversity for the future benefit of... View Details

Keywords: Food; Safety; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Finance; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

Educators

February 2011
Teaching Note

CHS Inc.: Cooperative Leadership in a Global Food Economy (TN)

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew Preble

Teaching Note for 911409. View Details

Keywords: Food; Cooperative Ownership; System; Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

Article

Free Food Delivery for the Elderly Would Be Smart

By: Scott Duke Kominers

Read Now

Summer 2013
Article

Negotiating Taste: Food Market Research in the Hagley Library

By: Ai Hisano

Read Now

December 1993 (Revised July 1994)
Case

Tofu: An Ancient Food Source Seeks to De-Yuckify Itself

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry

September 1996
Case

Food and Drug Administration: Business as Unusual at CDER

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and James Leonard

Keywords: Government Administration; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

October 1988
Case

Beef Industry Council: ""Beef--Real Food for Real People"" Campaign

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

2014
Chapter

What is Driving Change in the Global Food System?

By: Ray A. Goldberg

01 Jul 2015
News

From Waze for crowds to Uber for street food

04 Dec 2013
News

Fast Food Workers Call for a Minimum Wage Hike

Article

National Image as a Competitive Disadvantage: The Case of the New Zealand Organic Food Industry

By: Geoffrey Jones and Simon Mowatt

This article examines why organic agriculture and food consumption developed more strongly in some countries than others between the 1970s and the 2000s. The focus is the limited growth of the New Zealand organic sector, which contrasts with countries such as Denmark,... View Details

Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Political Economy; FDI; Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; New Zealand; Denmark

December 2021 (Revised April 2022)
Case

Nestlé: The World's Largest Food Company Confronts Climate Change

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Charlotte Tasker

Educators

January 1997
Exercise

Negotiating Corporate Change: Confidential Information, Jack Morris, VP, Food Division

By: James K. Sebenius

This case provides the confidential role information necessary for one person in a four-person negotiation simulation about a major corporate change. Specifically, it describes the role of Jack Morris as he attempts to negotiate a new uniform corporate information... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Transformation; Food; Information Management; Negotiation Deal; System