Publications

February 1982 (Revised April 1994)
Case

Breakfast Foods Corp. (A)

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

February 1999 (Revised October 1999)
Supplement

Cherkizovsky Group (B), The

By: Lynn S. Paine and Hal Hogan

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Russia

February 1999 (Revised October 1999)
Case

Describes the transformation of a formerly state-owned meat processing plant in Russia into a privately-owned and operated food processing conglomerate under Russia's economic reforms of the 1990s. Among the challenges the CEO, Igor Babaev, and his top management team... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Privatization; Transformation; Global Strategy; Culture; Food and Beverage Industry; Russia

Educators

July 1998
Teaching Note

Pepsi's Regeneration, 1990-1993 TN

By: David A. Garvin

Teaching Note for (9-395-048). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

April 1998
Case

C&S Wholesale Grocers

Discusses an aggressive team that has been successful in assimilating manufacturers' and chains' distribution role on the basis of cost and performance. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Distribution; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry

June 1995
Teaching Note

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream Inc.: Keeping the Mission(s) Alive TN

By: Richard E. Walton

Teaching Note for (9-392-025). View Details

Keywords: Value; Business Ventures; Creativity; Marketing; Business and Shareholder Relations; Policy; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Competency and Skills; Managerial Roles; Compensation and Benefits; Food and Beverage Industry

April 1992
Supplement

Prelude Corp.: Afterthoughts

By: Norman A. Berg

Commentary by an executive familiar with the industry on what went wrong at Prelude and what the difficulties are in creating economies of scale in the lobster fishing industry. View Details

Keywords: Management; Problems and Challenges; Cost Management; Food and Beverage Industry

January 1992 (Revised March 1993)
Case

Sam Steinberg--1905-58 (A)

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

June 1991 (Revised June 1995)
Teaching Note

Kraft General Foods: The Merger (A) and (B), Teaching Note

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for (9-391-139) and (9-795-153). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

June 1991 (Revised December 1995)
Teaching Note

Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry (A), (B), (C), and (D), Teaching Note

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for (9-391-189), (9-391-195), (9-391-196), and (9-391-197). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

April 1991 (Revised August 1991)
Case

Nestle in Chocolate in 1990

By: David J. Collis

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

October 1990 (Revised August 1991)
Case

Peanut Butter Fantasies

By: Amar Bhide and Myra M. Hart

Addresses the interrelated challenges of marketing and finance faced by a small, struggling packaged foods company. View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Finance; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Distribution; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry

Educators

November 1989
Teaching Note

H.J. Heinz Co.: The Administration of Policy (A), (B), (C), and (D), Teaching Note

By: Kenneth E. Goodpaster and Thomas R. Piper

Teaching Note for (9-382-034, 035, 036, and 037). View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Management Practices and Processes; Motivation and Incentives; System; Ethics; Policy; Business Divisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Food and Beverage Industry

June 1989
Teaching Note

Asahi Breweries Ltd., Teaching Note

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Teaching Note for (9-389-114). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Japan

April 1988 (Revised January 1992)
Case

General Mills, Inc.: Corporate Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry

January 1987 (Revised June 1989)
Case

Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi-Cola (A)

Focuses on the competitive interaction between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola specifically and the effect their dominance has on the other industry participants. Coke and Pepsi's competitive strategies are examined in an in-depth analysis; each firm's behavior is used to... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

Educators

February 1985 (Revised September 2001)
Teaching Note

ICEDELIGHTS Teaching Note

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts

Teaching Note for (9-898-196). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry