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October 1988
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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 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

unique food (famed ham, mushroom varietals, cheese-making, and rare herbs), temperate climate, surrounding rivers and mountains, ethnic diversity (bordering Laos, Vietnam,... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

Airlines. Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986) and Steve Gullans (Current) The authors survey how humans are changing the... View Details

April 2025
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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A) and (B) PowerPoint Supplement

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel and Susan Pinckney

Arla implemented a data based price incentive systems to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world’s fourth largest dairy cooperative. View Details

Keywords: Dairy Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; European Union; United Kingdom; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Netherlands; Luxembourg; Belgium

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November 1984 (Revised December 1985)
Background Note

Note on the Ethylene and Commodity Plastics Industries

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and started working in a chemical manufacturing plant that same year. On my first day on the job, with limited technical competence View Details

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Over just a few months, the United States stock market plunged almost 20 percent—then in one day rebounded a record 1,000 points. 2018 seemed just that kind of year in business: restless, surging, full of surprises. Big-name retailers continued to shutter, Bitcoin went... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

advantage of Polaroid’s support for education, Morse attended courses in chemistry at Harvard and MIT. (6) The Polaroid Research Seminars in the Organic Research Lab also offered classes in organic chemistry View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

internationalization process of the HBS curriculum. Crum graduated from Cornell University in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering. At HBS he was a Baker Scholar and earned his MBA with high... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

moms don’t have time to do: eat, read, work out, breathe, and have sex. Actress Evangeline Lilly writes about the importance and impact of film. Bestselling author Rene Denfeld focuses on her relationship... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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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14 May 2018
News

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

28 May 2017
Blog Post

HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire

afternoon and wandered through the Makola Market in Accra for a few hours. In addition to the interesting foods and wares—an unbelievable assortment of things to buy from pvc... View Details

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

What happens when giant multinational corporations acquire relatively small companies that enjoy iconic status as socially progressive brands? According to recent research out of Harvard Business School, such marriages can be good for business View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage

October 2012
Case

Monsanto

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant must guide his global agribusiness technology company into an uncertain future where food security, food safety, sustainability, and climate change will all impact the global food system. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology; Food; Social and Collaborative Networks; Global Strategy; Agribusiness; Globalized Markets and Industries; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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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

August 1984 (Revised April 1985)
Teaching Note

Pepsi-Cola United Kingdom (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Teaching Note for (9-584-052), (9-584-053), and (9-584-054). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom

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2023
Article

Association Between Regulatory Submission Characteristics and Recalls of Medical Devices Receiving 510(k) Clearance

By: Alexander O. Everhart, Soumya Sen, Ariel D. Stern, Yi Zhu and Pinar Karaca-Mandic

Importance: Most regulated medical devices enter the U.S. market via the 510(k) regulatory submission pathway, wherein manufacturers demonstrate that applicant devices are “substantially equivalent” to 1 or more “predicate” devices (legally marketed medical devices... View Details

Keywords: Recalls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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