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- July 2013
- Case
Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain
By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010, the company had launched what it thought would become a breakthrough product... View Details
Keywords: System Complexity; Industrial Enzymes; Ethanol; Collulosic Ethanol; Fermentation; Genomics; Genetic Engineering; Value Chain; Assembling Value Chain; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Production; Research; Research and Development; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Energy Industry; Denmark; United States
Shih, Willy, and Sen Chai. "Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 614-001, July 2013.
- May 2015 (Revised May 2017)
- Case
Colgate-Palmolive Company: Marketing Anti-Cavity Toothpaste
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
In October 2013, Colgate-Palmolive Company, the world's leading oral care company, was about to launch its new Colgate® Maximum Cavity Protection™ plus Sugar Acid Neutralizer™ toothpaste in Brazil. Oral care category accounted for 46 percent of Colgate's $17.4 billion... View Details
Keywords: New Product Management; Consumer Segmentation; Global Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility; Healthcare; Sustainability; Health Care and Treatment; Environmental Sustainability; Marketing; Segmentation; Product Development; Product Launch; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product Positioning; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Colgate-Palmolive Company: Marketing Anti-Cavity Toothpaste." Harvard Business School Case 515-050, May 2015. (Revised May 2017.)
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Business School Case 519-010 DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
forthcoming Academy of Management Journal Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Though organizations are increasingly active participants in the political realm,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
1966–1980 Sewell L. Avery Montgomery, Ward and Company, 1936–1955 B Earl D. Babst American Sugar Refining, 1915–1937 Jules S. Bache J. S. Bache & Company, 1892–1944 Leo H. Baekeland Bakelite Corporation, 1909–1939 Melvin H. Baker National... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
joins me today to talk about how his biomaterials start-up uses sugar to feed cells and grow cotton in the lab. Luciano will share how he rebounded from a venture that failed, and then started GALY and grew it into the Series B company it... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
of talented students. After obtaining his MBA from HBS, Jesse devoted much of his professional life to establishing and developing the Asian sugar commodity market. He lived in China and the United States with his wife and was active in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America
commerce, including several hundred from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The total number of Africans transported to the New World was about 10 million. Their destination was usually Brazil or one of the Caribbean sugar islands, but some... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- Web
Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Services (2008) China Transportation and Logistics Cluster in Northeast China (2017) Wind Turbine Cluster in Inner Mongolia (2009) The Chinese Apparel Cluster in Guangdong (2006) Colombia Bogota Software Cluster (2013) The Sugar Cane... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
York chefs. “We had all this land, with about 20,000 old-growth sugar maples and red maples,” relates Turner. “Big picture, this was 2009 and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
performance, Picasso felt apprehensive about the added sugars and artificial ingredients in Pedialyte or other options like Gatorade, with sugar content close to that of a soda. She looked into the science... View Details
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
how food and beverages were impacting consumer health. In early 2007, she launched PepsiCo’s new mission, “Performance with Purpose.” She committed to reduce the sugar and sodium in PepsiCo’s core snacks and sodas, which generated most of... View Details
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Loeb House | About
Sugar Corporation from 1969 to 1971. Currently chairman of John L. Loeb, Jr., Associates, Inc., Investment Counselors DBA Loeb Rhoades, and a member of numerous corporate boards. John Loeb Jr. also owns Russian Riverbend Vineyards, Ltd.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
entrepreneur who founded a major ranching enterprise, a sugar factory, a flour mill, a bank, and a general store. Tibby's father, Laurence, headed one of E.P.'s many successful endeavors, the First National Bank of Layton. Roy and Tibby... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
Marketers can make a bottle of sugar water look like golden elixir. Can health advocates sour the taste for consumers? (SteveDF) San Francisco is in a three-year battle with the American Beverage Industry over whether soda companies can... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
regardless of cost. Recounting his early years in this quixotic business, Jones notes, "When I first came to this area, the prospects were not encouraging. No one was growing premium grapes, and I was warned that the climate might be too cold for the fruit to View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
that along to consumers in one form or another, the most common being an increase in the retail price. Other times, they may redesign the product to lower production costs or replace more expensive ingredients with less expensive ingredients (e.g., switching from cane... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
assignment, before embarking on his MBA, was one of the corporation’s flagship projects - the Baseline Study. The project is a longitudinal study of human health that he describes as “like a Google Earth of the body. By accumulating cross-sectional data – such as blood... View Details