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  • 2013
  • Case

The COFCO Group

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
Keywords: China; Food; China
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  • November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security

By: Elie Ofek
In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Transition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; North America; Toronto; Northeastern United States
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    The Transparency Paradox

    2013 Winner of Academy of Management Awards for Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior and Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory

    Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second... View Details

    • 26 Oct 2018
    • Blog Post

    Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

    Student Association and am actively working with my team to make HBS a healthy, active, and fun campus. My schedule this semester consists of taking classes that perfectly... View Details
    • 2013
    • Teaching Note

    The COFCO Group (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
    COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
    Keywords: China; Food; China
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    • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

    By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
    In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important... View Details
    Keywords: Water; Pricing; Nonprofit Organizations; Projects; Price; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; Equity; Green Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Africa; Dubai
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    • May 2010
    • Article

    Leadership Effort in Professional Radiology Associations

    By: Srikant M. Datar, John Tan and Sanjay Saini
    Professional associations advocate for their members' interests; provide forums for education, training, and certification; and support domain-specific research and development efforts. The purpose of this study was to determine the amount of resources devoted to the... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Cooperation; Society; Health Industry
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    • 04 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: December 4

    creativity. These findings have theoretical and practical implications for research in workplace diversity and creativity. The Microwork Solution: A New Approach to Outsourcing... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • Research Summary

    Research Summaries

    Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


    Social Capital... View Details

    • 09 Aug 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

    Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
    • November 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    Red Tomato: Keeping It Local

    By: Jose B. Alvarez, Mary Louise Shelman and Laura Winig
    This case describes the operating model and history of Red Tomato, a non-profit organization dedicated to branding and logistical support for locally grown produce farmers in the northeast U.S. The case highlights the challenges involved in making locally grown produce... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Trends; Food; Local Range; Consumer Behavior; Logistics; Supply Chain; Nonprofit Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Northeastern United States
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    • 14 Nov 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Volodymyr Babich, Georgetown University

    • Article

    Moving Forward from COVID-19: Organizational Dimensions of Effective Hospital Emergency Management

    By: Mariam Krikorian Atkinson, Nicholas Cagliuso, John Hick, Sara Singer, Elizabeth Bambury, Tuna Cem Hayirli, Masha Kuznetsova and Paul Biddinger
    Federal investment in emergency preparedness has increased notably since the 9/11 attacks, yet it is unclear if and how U.S. hospital readiness has changed in the 20 years since then. In particular, understanding effective aspects of hospital emergency management... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Hospital Preparedness/response; Urban/rural Hospitals; Emergency Management; National Strategy; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Performance Effectiveness; Governance; Policy; United States
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    • 22 Oct 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Abhinav Gupta, Foster School of Business, University of Washington

    • 10 Sep 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

    Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton & Elizabeth W. Dunn
    • 2010
    • Book

    International Differences in Entrepreneurship

    By: Josh Lerner and Antoinette Schoar
    Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market. As a result,... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply and Industry; Business and Government Relations
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    • 2013
    • Teaching Note

    Ningbo FOTILE Kitchen Ware Co., Ltd. (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming, Yuren Fang and Hong Zhang
    Since 2008, FOTILE has actively introduced philosophies of the traditional Chinese culture—such as benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and faith—into its management, which it believes to compensate for deficiencies in Western management concepts and creates a new... View Details
    Keywords: Human Resource Management; China; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Strategy; China
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    • 06 Jan 2021
    • Blog Post

    My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

    activities and spent a lot of time in the i-lab. During the summer between my first and second year I received additional funding through the Rock Summer Fellows Program. I... View Details
    • September 2018
    • Article

    Religious Shoppers Spend Less Money

    By: Didem Kurt, J. Jeffrey Inman and Francesca Gino
    Although religion is a central aspect of life for many people across the globe, there is scant research on how religion affects people’s non-religious routines. In the present research, we identify a frequent consumption activity that is influenced by religiosity:... View Details
    Keywords: Religion; Spending; Consumer Behavior; Values and Beliefs
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    • February 2022
    • Case

    US Foods: Driving Post-Pandemic Success?

    By: David E. Bell, Olivia Hull and Amy Klopfenstein
    In November 2021, US Foods CEO Pietro Satriano must decide his company’s trajectory following the COVID-19 pandemic. US Foods suffered due to business closures and social distancing during the height of the pandemic. While the situation improved following the return of... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Agribusiness; Food; Goods and Commodities; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Job Offer; Labor; Employment; Human Capital; Wages; Working Conditions; Operations; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Diversification; Product Design; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain Management; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Transportation; Truck Transportation; Transportation Networks; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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