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- April 2010 (Revised May 2010)
- Teaching Note
Codevasf (TN)
By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
Teaching Note for 510042. View Details
- March 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
The Huffington Post
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Toby E. Stuart and David Kiron
In Feb. 2010, management of the Huffington Post, a fast-growing but not-yet-profitable Internet newspaper that aggregates blog posts from unpaid contributors and excerpts of stories originally published by other news sites, faces a number of decisions about its growth... View Details
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
Alltech...naturally (TN)
By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
Teaching Note for [508033]. View Details
Keywords: Health Industry
- December 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Ebro Puleva
By: David E. Bell, Antonio Garcia de Castro, Rocio Reina Paniagua and Mary Louise Shelman
Once Spain's largest sugar company, Ebro Puleva has been transformed through a series of international acquisitions into the world's largest package rice company and second largest pasta company. In 2009, Chairman Antonio Hernandez Callejas must decide how to proceed... View Details
- December 2009 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
Monsanto: Helping Farmers Feed the World
By: David E. Bell, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Mary Shelman
Monsanto has led the effort to bring biotechnology to bear on food production. Through some management missteps and consumer resistance the company had difficulties in its early years. But since Hugh Grant became CEO the picture has brightened with widespread adoption... View Details
- December 2009 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Rabobank: The Global Food and Agriculture Bank
By: David E. Bell, Ray A. Goldberg, Mary Louise Shelman and Aldo Sesia
Rabobank decides to focus primarily on food and agriculture firms and farms on a global basis. View Details
- December 2009 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Diamond Foods
By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
CEO Michael Mendes has transformed a grower-owned cooperative into a publicly traded top marketer of snack foods. Diamond's organization, culture, product development process, advertising and promotion strategy, and specifically its marketing department have been built... View Details
- December 2009 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Woolf Farming and Processing
By: David E. Bell, Laura Winig and Mary Louise Shelman
Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought, poor quality well water and unavailability of surface water due to federally... View Details
- December 2009 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Codevasf
By: David E. Bell, Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro and Natalie Kindred
With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was... View Details
- December 2009
- Case
Hungerit
By: David E. Bell, Sarah Morton and Mary Louise Shelman
Hungary's top producer of poultry products is deciding the company's future strategy in the face of new opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe, a changing retail market in Hungary, and the possibility of increased global competition. View Details
- November 2009 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
PureCircle
By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In December 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that high-purity Rebaudioside A (Reb A), a natural and calorie-free product that a young company named PureCircle manufactured from the Stevia plant, could be used in beverages, foods, and as a... View Details
- 2009
- Book
Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments
By: Roderick M. Kramer, Ann E. Tenbrunsel and Max H. Bazerman
This book, in honor of David Messick, is about social decisions and the role cooperation plays in social life. Noted contributors who worked with Dave over the years will discuss their work in social judgment, decision making, and ethics which was so important to Dave. View Details
- June 2009
- Teaching Note
COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd. (TN)
By: David E. Bell, Sarah Morton and Mary Louise Shelman
Teaching Note for [508079]. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Goals and Objectives; Quality; Price; Competitive Strategy; Contracts; Supply and Industry; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Cost Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
- June 2009 (Revised October 2012)
- Teaching Note
Nestle (TN)
By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
Teaching Note for [509001]. View Details
- May 2009
- Teaching Note
Olam International (TN)
By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
Teaching Note for [509002]. View Details
- 2009
- Chapter
Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions
By: David E. Bell and Ralph L. Keeney
All of us make decisions that are not entirely self-centered; we voluntarily anticipate what we think to be the preferences of others and incorporate them into our decision making. We do this, not because of legal requirements or social norms, but because we are... View Details
- March 2009
- Teaching Note
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The MTV Approach to Tackling HIV/AIDS (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna, Sonali R. Bloom and David E. Bloom
Teaching Note for [709429]. View Details
- 30 Jan 2009
- Other Presentation
Advice to the U.S. President on Competitiveness
Session moderated by Michael Porter and featuring Scott Davis, Ellen J. Kullman, Rupert Murdoch, Duncan Niederauer, David M. Rubenstein, Ronald A. Williams. View Details
- January 2009 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
GLOBALGAP: Food Safety and Private Standards
By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman
In response to new laws governing liability and several food safety scares in the 1990s, European retailers drove the creation of a universal production standard based on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for fresh fruit and vegetables and a third-party certification... View Details
- January 2009
- Case
Marks and Spencer: Plan A
By: David E. Bell, Nitin Sanghavi and Laura Winig
Marks & Spencer initiated a comprehensive approach to sustainability (reduction of waste, carbon emissions, fair trade) called Plan A. Does it offer a competitive advantage? View Details