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Creating Emerging Markets
President, Indian Dairy Association; Former Managing Director, GCMMF (Amul) Nigeria Omobola Johnson Senior Partner, TLcom Capital; Former Minister of Communication Technology, Nigeria (2011-15) Oman Mohammed Al Barwani Founder and... View Details
Trust
Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1953–1966 James H. McGraw McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1899–1928 Thomas H. McInnerney National Dairy Products Corporation, 1923–1941 James O. McKinsey McKinsey & Company, 1925–1937 William L. McKnight... View Details
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Soltan Bryce
summer, I did research for the United Stated Environmental Protection Agency on the technical and financial feasibility of solar panels on the roofs of dairy barns in California’s Central Valley,” Soltan says. “I loved the data science... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
up on a 1,200-acre dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania, with ponds and pastures to explore and frogs and turtles to play with, Roosevelt learned early on that “outdoors is the most interesting place to be.” At Harvard College, he majored in... View Details
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration
Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be? Novo Nordisk Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization
Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be? Novo Nordisk Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping Circularity... View Details
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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Mongolia Mongolia Mining Services Cluster (2010) Morocco Morocco Automotive Cluster (2015) Morocco Aeronautics Cluster (2013) Morocco Tourism (2008) Nepal Nepal Tourism Cluster (2015) Nepal Tourism (2011) Netherlands Netherlands Medical Devices Cluster (2013)... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
Government and the International Economy Pakistan at 75: When Will the "Nazuk Mor" End? Singapore: "From Third World to First" Thailand: Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, and a Green Revolution Data Science for Managers Arla Foods: Decarbonizing View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
Unilever's market positions in detergents. The attempts to find more profitable growth opportunities through innovation, in products as diverse as fresh dairy and feminine hygiene, largely came to naught, as did attempts to buy into the... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
how the bank essentially replaces an expensive part of the operations process for dairy farmers in the Emilia Romagna region of Northern Italy. Besides holding the cheese as insurance, Credem stores and ages the wheels in... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
venture between Twence and FrieslandCampina, a dairy company. This JV between two unlikely parties uses the Empyro facility to generate biofuels, which they use to generate heat for the local residential homes and a local Grolsch brewery... View Details
- 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 business groups in the terminology preferred here, around the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
standard size, as in the case of eggs and butter. If dairy firms were to sell butter in slightly less than one-pound packages, consumers would notice. In these cases, one could expect more resistance and backlash. With that said, however,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
Midwesterner raised on a dairy farm, and Roy Whitcomb Riley, a Black Southerner, settled in Los Angeles shortly before their son’s birth, in 1981, after traveling the world for 18 years. They lived in Mid City, whose economic and racial... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
Decarbonization Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be? Novo Nordisk Amager Bakke: A... View Details
Robert E. Rich
With his invention of a frozen whipped topping in 1945, Rich created a whole new industry: frozen nondairy products. While this new industry generated only $30,000 in 1945, it soon blossomed into a multi-million industry and ignited fierce competition with the... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
James L. Kraft
large part to Kraft’s efforts. In 1928, his company employed 10,000 people and sold a million pounds of cheese a day. Today, the firm ranks first in the United States in cheese and dairy products and second in salad dressings. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco