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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Business at the Summit

Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous week, the worst such drop in... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

cleantech). Includes ESG ratings.  Industry/Market Research IBISWorld - covers a wide range of industries in the US, China, the UK and Australia. BCC - in-depth market research reports on many sectors within health... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812031-PDF-ENG Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 211-027 One of the leading publishers of textbooks and other educational materials for the U.S. K-12 educational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Cristina Ros Blankfein

existed.’ We both liked the concept but before getting too married to the idea, we did a pretty good market scan of what the options were out there. When we realized that there wasn’t anything great in the market, we got a lot more... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

advice. He suggested that the company test and refine its business model by initially focusing on one payment operation, for parking tickets, in one U.S. city. The entrepreneurs almost bit off his head. "The leader in this market... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • March 2001 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Identifying and Realizing Investments in Eastern Europe (A)

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Robert E. Kennedy and Laure Mougeot Strook
A Greek milling firm wants to invest in Eastern Europe. The case explores the firm's search strategy and its due diligence process after a potential investment, and considers how the company should structure its bid. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Financial Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe
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  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

Search listing. The authors consider implications of these findings for competition policy and for online marketing strategies. Download working paper: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/gfs-2015-03-09.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

from investors in Japan, and in November 2019, with Nakamura and some friends, he presided over a mostly successful “Yasu & Masa’s Ramen” pop-up event in Cambridge. “Everyone ate well, and no one got food poisoning,” he laughs, “but it... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Professor Senior Associate Dean for International Development Research Center Highlights The following highlights illustrate the breadth of HBS’s global activities before and during the pandemic. Africa Research Center The Africa Research Center contributed to HBS’s... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

The Wise Men

on agribusiness, the term with which he has become synonymous. He currently teaches a food policy and agribusiness course at the Kennedy School, the Agribusiness Seminar at HBS, and a University-wide seminar on public issues facing the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
  • November 2024
  • Case

Fyffes International SA

By: David E. Bell, Damien McLoughlin and Tonia Labruyère
Helge Sparsoe, CEO of Fyffes since 2020, had taken the tropical produce importer and distributor back to a path of stable level of profitability since he joined in 2020. He was now thinking about next steps for the business, which mainly traded in bananas. He was... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Change Management; Environmental Sustainability; Brands and Branding; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Competition; Price; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland; United Kingdom; Republic of Ireland; Colombia; Guatemala; Costa Rica; Ecuador
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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

September 2021 Alumni Books

focus on large-scale beverage technology, sections cover starter cultures, regulatory challenges, genetic engineering, quality, and safety. From practical issues of developing probiotic beverages, to the marketing of these drinks to the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

going to make the food space more vulnerable in the next five years. There is going to be enormous change, both because of the way people eat and because new models are starting to come into the equation that will erode the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • October 2005
  • Case

Saskatchewan Wheat Pool 2005

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mary L. Shelman
CEO Mayo Schmidt had just guided his firm through five difficult years. Survival had come with the difficult decision to change the 80-year-old agricultural cooperative into a Canadian business corporation. The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (SWP) now faced the future with a... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Capital; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada
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  • August 1972 (Revised November 2002)
  • Case

Prelude Corporation

Describes a company that is seeking to restructure the lobster fishing industry by applying technology and management to what has been essentially a cottage industry. The student is expected to identify and evaluate the strategy pursued by the company to date and then... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Strategy; Leading Change; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Industry Growth; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 30 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

Unique Identification System," with Anjali Raina (HBS AMP 174, 2008), executive director of the HBS India Research Center in Mumbai. "Any company that wants to operate in emerging markets that are large and populous, like China,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

world. What does the book add to the literature that you felt was lacking? Mihir Desai: Recent waves of globalization have had several distinct effects on firms that have not been addressed by many academics. First, rapidly integrating View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 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 and solar energy to organic food and wine,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • December 2018 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Wolfgang Puck: Setting the Table for the Future

By: Boris Groysberg and Matthew G. Preble
Chef Wolfgang Puck oversees a disparate business empire that includes fine dining restaurants, a catering business, and various licensed products that run from cookware, to soup, to fast-casual restaurants. His businesses activities are divided among three separate... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Growth and Development; Management Systems; Business Processes; Leadership; Transition; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 20 Feb 2019
  • News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

and with investors from across Africa. He believes those connections could be the key to the program’s success. “Entrepreneurship is not just about capital; it is capital plus X. That ‘X’ is the mentoring and training, and it is the View Details
Keywords: April White