food processing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2019
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In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

to craft a case that captures the dynamics common across many situations, and that also brings in unique elements from individual examples to highlight important themes. With 450 employees and more than $300 million Canadian in annual revenue, Stoy View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

Assistant Professor Monica C. Higgins and Professor Nitin Nohria explores how language enables perfect strangers to initiate a process that may lead to business collaboration. In their 1996 working paper, "How Language Works: Interaction... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

electrical current, they pressed the lever over and over again, hundreds of times per hour, foregoing food or sleep, until many of them dropped dead from exhaustion. Further research found pleasure centers exist in human brains, too.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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AB InBev: Brewing Up Forecasts during COVID-19

By: Mark Egan, C. Fritz Foley, Esel Cekin and Emilie Billaud

In July 2021, the CEO of AB InBev's European operations and his team strategized to position the company for success post-pandemic. As the world's largest beer company, boasting over 500 brands, revenue of $46 billion, and a workforce of 160,000 in 2020, AB InBev... View Details

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06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections By: Ibanez, Maria, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Oct 2021
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Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

School as an undergraduate chemical and biomolecular engineering student at the University of Maryland. She was accepted into the 2+2 program and set out after graduation to explore potential careers and build her skills. After a year and half as a View Details

01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

happy.” With that, everyone lines up to sample beef-cheek birria, tongue, and heart with chili, prepared by Sandra Ruiz of Sabor Comunitario, a Denver-based organization that trains Latinos for careers in the food industry. CSU is the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

mega-organization CEO positions? Is there something about the need for high compensation and the "score keeping" that goes with it that distinguishes desirable CEO candidates from others? Can (or should) ways be found to involve shareholders more actively in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

are subject to human error and bias. Recognizing these limits, the authors focus most of their attention on “opaque” policies, where the precise mechanisms and processes of content moderation are not fully transparent to users. Two types... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

performing, but they have had guardrails their whole life," Kraus says. "Then they get to the end of their MBA, and they have no guardrails. They have to pave their own way. They experience this peeling back and discovery process in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. But data... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

countries, agriculture still represents a large share of the domestic economy. Small farms and lack of resources often means that agriculture is highly inefficient. Technology can dramatically improve productive capacity of farms and increase View Details

05 Feb 2013
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Authors:Sebenius, James K. Publication:Negotiation Journal: On the Process of Dispute Settlement Abstract Roger Fisher, who died in 2012, enjoyed a remarkable career that modeled one way that an academic, especially in a professional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

authors also teamed to write The Magic of Innovation, published in the European Business Review earlier this year. A Magical Process Thomke maintains that innovative managers looking to create successful new products or services can... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

predominantly male working environments of the factory floor and management offices, as well as her family challenges in a dual-career household. At the end of each chapter are “Pearls from Pat,” which reinforce the effective strategies she’s discovered along the way.... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)

and I started to learn what it takes to manage an unwieldy production process and to please the fickle consumer. Business school made sense to me because I liked to hatch ideas and make them happen. After HBS I went to work in consumer... View Details

Keywords: comedy writing; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup

The company aims to transform health food with a lesser known super-seed (Sacha Inchi), which has a superior nutritional profile compared to most conventional nuts and seeds. The mission was to do this not just through its products, but... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

25 Aug 2022
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Comfort Zone

and Brazil. It’s not a stretch to understand why this is the case: If airports can reduce processing time through security and reduce anxiety, they will be increasing leisure time inside the airport—and commercial revenues. “But a... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Streamlining the Supermarket

order-fulfillment process at Amazon, which acquired the company for $775 million in 2012. Aguerrevere, who had founded a small-format grocery store chain in his native Venezuela, discussed the talk with Max Pedró (MBA 2002), his close... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

to bolster and enhance the taste of nearly all processed foods because manufacturing techniques weaken the real flavors. The development of those added flavors requires a high degree of customization and... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

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