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09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

enormous strain on the 1.2 billion people living on a dollar a day or less. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and relief agencies are on the front lines of this global crisis, distributing food View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

1988
Chapter

The Conditions of Creativity

By: B. A. Hennessey and T. M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity; Situation or Environment

August 2011
Teaching Note

Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (TN)

By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried

Teaching Note for 310-070. View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Planning; Transformation; Business Offices; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Goals and Objectives; Competitive Strategy; Opportunities; Banking Industry; Alabama

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

spas, paintball parties, etc., at a major markdown—up to 90 percent off a retailer's usual prices—and then requiring the retailer to pay a big chunk of the voucher revenues back to Groupon. But the Chicago-based firm is "the fastest growing company in web... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

June 1993 (Revised December 1995)
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: The Navigator Project (A)

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Richard O. Mason and Melinda Conrad

Provides an overview of the company's recent organizational changes followed by a discussion of the company's new sales promotion software, "Promotion Planner." The president of Frito-Lay's central division must decide how he should proceed with the rollout of this new... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Trends; Innovation Strategy; Marketing Communications; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

June 1995 (Revised May 1996)
Teaching Note

RJR Nabisco - 1990 TN

By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee

Teaching Note for (9-290-021). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

the eighteenth-century pottery and china manufacturer; H.J. Heinz, who started the famous food company in 1869; and Marshall Field, the late nineteenth-century Chicago... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

December 2010
Supplement

Urban Water Partners (B) Spreadsheet Supplement (CW)

By: Karthik Ramanna and George Serafeim

Solution to spreadsheet 111704. View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Dar es Salaam

04 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 4

markets; however we find significant correlations between kidney market disapproval and attitudes reflecting disapproval towards certain transactions—including both other body markets and market encroachment... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

reasons, there's considerably less differentiation across products and services than in the past. One way the companies can compete in this harsh environment is to provide better customer service by... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

December 2010
Teaching Note

Cresud S.A., Farmer or Real Estate Developer? (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Andrew Pierson Terris

Teaching Note for 211-011. View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk Management; Competition; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Opportunities; Decisions; Performance Effectiveness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Paraguay

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

of environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda. The editors welcome View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

strategic environment (e.g., head-to-head rivalry and time pressure) can fuel competitive motivations and behavior. Study 1 measures real-time motivations of online auction... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2003 (Revised March 2010)
Supplement

The Australian Wine Cluster: Supplementary Information

By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell

Supplements The California Wine Cluster. View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Australia

December 1997
Case

UnHoley Bagel, The

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

June 1990
Supplement

Perrier Relaunch

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Supplements Perrier Recall: A Source of Trouble. View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Food and Beverage Industry

December 1986
Case

General Mills, Inc.: Manufacturing Year 2000 Task Force

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

February 1999 (Revised October 1999)
Supplement

Cherkizovsky Group (B), The

By: Lynn S. Paine and Hal Hogan

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Russia