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July 2013
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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

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May 2015 (Revised May 2017)
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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

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16 May 2018
News

Spotify's 'Hateful Conduct' Policy Drags The Music Industry Into The #MeToo Moment

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
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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

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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

focusing on lab-grown cotton. Luciano Bueno, founder and CEO of GALY, 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... 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

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Guangdong (2006) Colombia Bogota Software Cluster (2013) The Sugar Cane Cluster in Colombia (2007) Colombia Shrimp Aquaculture (2008) Costa Rica Costa Rica Data Centers (2016) Costa Rica Medical Tourism (2016) Croatia Ship & Boatbuilding... 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
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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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

15 Feb 2024
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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

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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
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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

01 Oct 1997
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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

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations

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

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

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

hour. I stayed for three years. —Scott Benson (MBA 2008) Purchase Power Waking up at 5 a.m. to deliver papers by bike in all of Boston’s seasons: That was memorable. But being able to buy my first pack of baseball cards on my own, as a result: That was unforgettable!... View Details

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