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    Henry J. Heinz II

    Heinz II engineered immense growth for the food products firm. In his first few years as president, Heinz took advantage of the postwar boom in the American economy and took the firm public in 1946. Through... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 01 Jun 2020
    • News

    Meal Plan

    Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

      Clarence Francis

      Francis oversaw General Foods with a product line that included the successful Post cereals, Maxwell House and Sanka Coffee, Log Cabin Syrup and Jell-O. After absorbing an initial $17 million loss in the... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • 01 Dec 2010
      • News

      Do Good: Eat Chocolate

      nibs and raisins. Manufactured at a plant outside Medellín, Colombia, and sold at Whole Foods and gourmet specialty stores, sweetriot products are also available for purchase on Virgin America, at the... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production
      • 14 Jul 2021
      • News

      The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

      one-third of all the food in the world is wasted.” How does the company’s food distribution process work? “We focus on resolving the nutritional needs of community kitchens by distributing high-quality... View Details

        Rose Totino

        Using her car as collateral, Totino secured a $1,500 loan to launch a pizza take-out restaurant in Minnesota. Since pizza was so new, Totino also had to bring samples of her product to the loan committee to secure the initial financing.... View Details
        Keywords: Food & Tobacco
        • 01 Feb 2000
        • News

        Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

        Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He... View Details
        Keywords: Deborah Blagg
        • 15 May 2020
        • News

        New Menu

        trajectory of these young food businesses, in addition to all the potential pitfalls. Big Ideas Ventures focuses on the transition points as a company moves from product to a commercial kitchen and beyond.... View Details

          Jeno F. Paulucci

          Paulucci founded Jeno’s Frozen Pizza to capitalize on the growing acceptance of frozen foods as alternatives for dinner. While there were many regional frozen pizza offerings, there was no national brand. Through low cost View Details
          Keywords: Food & Tobacco
          • Profile

          Cherian Kurien

          Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? For me the purpose of an MBA is to develop and refine one's political, economic and social worldview, by debating, listening to and understanding the views of the faculty and fellow students. Harvard Business School,... View Details
          Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products
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          Connie Walsh

          team for $5B Staples Brands Group at Staples, Inc. She was responsible for marketing & developing product lines and brands across retail, contract, online and catalogue businesses and for the packaging strategy and View Details
          Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
          • January 2016
          • Case

          Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

          By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
          This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
          Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Haiti
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          • 10 Mar 2021
          • News

          Action Plan: Brewing Awareness

          at the bars of Harvard Square—and carried that affinity with him to New York, where he took a job in finance at Perella Weinberg. At a Whole Foods located on the first floor of his apartment building, Murad could fill a growler with an... View Details
          Keywords: Julia Hanna; beer; India; leadership; COVID-19; manufacturing; marketing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
          • 27 Jun 2016
          • News

          Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

          the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes to the foodmaker from... View Details

            James L. Kraft

            Kraft created a multi-million dollar processed food supply company. He was instrumental in perfecting the method of preserving cheese, so that it could be stored for a longer period of time in any climate. Consumption of cheese in America... View Details
            Keywords: Food & Tobacco
            • 22 Jul 2014
            • News

            Hungry for Change

            associated with food insecurity in Minnesota ($1.6 billion annually, according to a study by the University of Minnesota) and what it will take to fix the problem ($300 million, with an estimated 100 million meals missed at $3 each). "We... View Details
            Keywords: Agriculture
            • 03 Mar 2020
            • News

            Can This Man Change the American Diet?

            a lower temperature. It’ll probably be a lot sweeter Julia: After tea, we move on to hay straws a product pitched as an environmentally friendly replacement for the restaurant’s compostable plastic straws. They’re introduced by Olivia... View Details
            Keywords: Agriculture

              Howard Heinz

              Taking the helm of Heinz from his father, Howard continued to build the company through internal growth and development. He deftly managed the company through the Depression by introducing low cost, processed food View Details
              Keywords: Food & Tobacco
              • 04 Sep 2019
              • News

              Action Plan: A New ’Cue

              opinion of what barbecue is and how it should be made.” How would he please people across the barbecue spectrum? Corsello’s solution was bold. He and his partner Jeff Mauro, of Food Network fame, would serve “creative barbecue.” The... View Details
              Keywords: April White
              • 01 Oct 2001
              • News

              Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success

              of antique mustard pots to posters from the Napa Valley Mustard Festival, where the company's product has earned more than a few gold medals. Less expected is the sculpture of a phoenix that graces the office of Plochman's president,... View Details
              Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing