Publications

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

that were more responsible and sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 2)

out of the theater and into the nearby Whole Foods vegetable aisle where the waterworks continued. I had just never felt so ‘seen’ by a movie. In hindsight, it was only my position between these cultures... View Details

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2019
Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Regulation on Strategic Positioning: Self-Regulation in the RTE Cereal Industry

Keywords: by Young Hou and Dennis Yao; Food & Beverage

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

setting is a production site in Hungary that is starting up the production of a personal beverage maker. Should the team implement a conveyor-paced line in preference to a manual pull system? An analysis of process steps View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Web

Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their value proposition, they tap into the potential for a competitive advantage that is more sustainable versus competitors than conventional cost and quality advantages. Whole Foods, the most economically successful View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

beaches, enjoying good food and a full regimen of sports activities. The outings of "Le Club" proved so popular that by the late 1950s they were commercialized. By 1999, Club Med boasted 120 villages... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2016
News

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... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

who might prefer guaranteed tax-free retirement income not subject to Wall Street market fluctuations. The Tanner Extraction by Frank X. Biasi (PMD 41, 1981) F.X. Biasi Falling in Love Backwards: An Unlikely Tale of Happily Ever After by Diane Covington-Carter View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

September 1999 (Revised July 2006)
Case

Juice Guys (A)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Sharon Lee Fox and Cynthia Rushmore Kuechle

The case explores who the customers are for a new beverage product, their desires as customers for this product, and their desires when ordering this product from a local specialty store location. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Commercialization; Customer Satisfaction; Food and Beverage Industry

January 2025
Technical Note

U.S. and Global Agriculture: The Next Four Years

By: Forest Reinhardt, Sarah Dankens and Natalie Kindred

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States

April 1997
Case

New and Improved: Product Reformulation at General Mills

By: Arthur Schleifer Jr., Craig Boreth and Phyllis Dininio

Keywords: Product; Food and Beverage Industry

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March 2015
Case

West Coast Chill

By: William A. Sahlman, Robert F. White and Stephanie Puzio

The fall of 2010 marked the 20th year that Mitchell Joseph, a fourth generation beverage executive, serial entrepreneur, and the founder of the Joseph Company (the "Company"), had been working on developing the technology for a self-chilling can. Mitchell was at an... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

a large scale into selling refrigerated meat and dairy food from New Zealand and Australia to Europe. 3 The upshot was the creation of diversified 'investment groups,' or... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

October 1988
Case

Edward Litton and Philippine Fresh Mango Exports to Japan

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Trade; Food; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; Philippines

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01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

economy. From sartorial taste and food habits to marriage and old age, from music and language to celebrities and... View Details

11 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion

interviews, delicious food tours around the city, walks through Seoul’s many historical sites, to embracing the beauty scene through facials, spa days, and trips to Olive Young, I intentionally immersed... View Details

November 1984
Article

Nutrition Policies and Programmes: A Decade of Redirection

By: Alan Berg and James E. Austin

Keywords: Food; Policy; Programs