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- September 2004 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
Chardonnay Shortage at Mondavi Winery, The
Mondavi Winery is facing a shortage of its Chardonnay wine. This shortage will disrupt its positioning in wine outlets and impact earnings. Allows students to discuss how to communicate such temporary--but financially important--shocks to the capital markets and... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Earnings; Production; System Shocks; Capital Markets; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Miller, Gregory S., and Thomas Patrick Doyle CSC. "Chardonnay Shortage at Mondavi Winery, The." Harvard Business School Case 105-021, September 2004. (Revised December 2005.)
- Research Summary
Intangible Resources
Getting Known by the Company you Keep: Publicizing the Qualifications and Associations of Skilled Employees to Indicate Producer Quality (with Peter Roberts) Under second review at Industrial and Corporate Change.
In a second paper with Peter Roberts (Emory... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Abbey Winery (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 606-004 Freemark Abbey must decide whether to harvest in view of the possibility of rain. Rain could damage the crop but delaying the harvest would be risky. On the other hand, rain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
we isolate an effect of winemaker mobility on wine prices that is not accompanied by a substantive effect on quality. Within-winery analysis of 65 wineries' wines released before and after a hiring event reveal that hiring a winemaker from a more prominent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2013 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Experience! The Finger Lakes: The Groupon Partnership Decision
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Chekitan S. Dev, Gabriele Piccoli and Arnold B. Peinado
In 2010, Experience! The Finger Lakes (ExperienceFLX), a tour operator offering guided tours and concierge services in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, was at a crossroads. The business was poised for growth, and its owners, Laura and Alan Falk, were... View Details
Applegate, Lynda M., Chekitan S. Dev, Gabriele Piccoli, and Arnold B. Peinado. "Experience! The Finger Lakes: The Groupon Partnership Decision." Harvard Business School Case 814-010, July 2013. (Revised January 2014.)
- February 1998 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Delamere Vineyard
Delamere Vineyard is a small, integrated winemaking business in Tasmania, specializing in pinot noir (red) and chardonnay (white) wines. Richard Richardson, Delamere's owner and winemaker, manages and operates the vineyard and winery largely alone. His products have... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Quality; Production; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Australia
West, Jonathan. "Delamere Vineyard." Harvard Business School Case 698-051, February 1998. (Revised June 2000.)
- Web
Video Clips - Creating Emerging Markets
scaled their social and economic impact. Duration: 04:02 Dr. Laura Catena Dr. Laura Catena Building Brands Dr. Laura Catena, Managing Director of Bodega Catena Zapata, traces the history of her family winery from humble beginnings to... View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global
Catena, a graduate of Harvard University. Laura serves as the managing director of Bodega Catena Zapata, a world-renowned family-owned winery started by her great-grandfather. She also owns Luca Wines, further proving her leadership and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
Ask Brice Jones, founder and president of Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards, what he does for a living, and he will answer simply, "I'm a farmer." Spend a morning touring his vineyard and winery in Windsor, California, however, and you will... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
Robert G. Mondavi
Founding his winery in 1966, Mondavi is credited with putting California wineries on par with the “best in the world.” Prior to Mondavi, U. S. wines were considered “cheap imitations” at best. He was a... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reinventing perceptions of Africa through wine
winery Seven Sisters, produced the first South African wine served on American Airlines. The South African government helped to negotiate a land purchase for Seven Sisters, which, until that point, owned no vineyards and had to contract... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Uncorked
an advertisement for perfume.” In 1972, E. & J. Gallo Winery called out of the blue and invited McClelland to its Modesto headquarters to manage its network television purchases. Eventually becoming the family company’s first female vice... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
example of how Old World wines can seem inaccessible to people. How can Old World wines become accessible to inexperienced consumers? A: Over the past decade, wineries around the world have gone to great lengths to enhance their consumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Attention, Oenophiles
wines tasted fantastic,” Cuffe said. “A light went off in my head.” Not long after, Cuffe and her husband, Khary Cuffe (MBA ’07), founded Heritage Link Brands (www.heritagelinkbrands.com), dedicated to importing the finest wines from the handful of South Africa’s 570... View Details
Keywords: Wholesale Trade
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
marketplace. How to stand out in a saturated market Know the competition. “There are more than 725 wineries in Oregon now, compared to just a handful when we started. So we did a survey of our competition to see where we fit, where they... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Room to Write
window that looks out into the woods.” —Keith D. Wright Sr. (PMD 67, 1994), Spiritual Oars for Dark Waters “During the cold months when I reside in San Francisco, I write at a favorite coffee shop. My first draft is always handwritten.” —Barbara Keck (MBA 1976), View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
extremes. Wineries of the Sierra Foothills: Risk-Takers & Rule-Breakers by Barbara Keck (MBA 1976) (Range of Light Media Group) The Sierra foothills are the largest wine region in America, covering ten California counties that are best... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55409 Harvard Business School Case 119-023 Chateau Winery (A): Unsupervised Learning This case follows Bill Booth, marketing manager of a regional wine distributor, as he applies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
80% of the wineries in the U.S. break even or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
of that, the South African government took notice and responded by negotiating a land purchase for the Seven Sisters, who until that point owned no vineyards and had to contract farmers and a winery to grow grapes. Now Walmart wants to... View Details