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  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Climate Week NYC 2023

highlighted the power of writing from diverse perspectives with the Imagine 2200 climate fiction project. Other discussions ranged from emissions from corporate finance, renewables and energy efficiency in supply chains, reinventing value... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Damon Silvers

congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to the automakers. They are at the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation
  • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Amram Migdal and Susan Pinckney
Arla implemented a data-based price incentive system 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; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
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  • February 2006
  • Case

Millions of Customers and the Search for a Business: the Challenge of IRC-Hispano

Like many online services, IRC-Hispano, the world's largest Spanish-language chat organization, has many customers but sees few revenues. As an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Revenue; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry; Spain
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  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. Agents with higher outside options choose the market with a larger number of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Max Wibaux

other influences, Max has been "led organically toward early-stage venture capital and growth equity in the food and beverage space," a functional transition that would allow him to combine his previous experience with freshly... View Details
Keywords: CPG
  • October 2008 (Revised September 2011)
  • Supplement

PepsiCo's Bid for Quaker Oats (D)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Describes the final deal struck between PepsiCo and Quaker Oats, including the terms of collared consideration. Summarizes stock price announcement effects. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Announcements; Stocks; Price; Risk Management; Negotiation Deal; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 02 Nov 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

merger of Office Depot and Staples, ending a marriage that would have reduced the number of big box office supply specialty chains to two, the other being Office Max. In seeking to stop the merger, the Federal Trade Commission argued that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

intentionally be "bad" at anything. But you can decide to not perform as well in areas that patients care less about, with the understanding that it will give you the resources to excel in those areas that patients value more... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 15 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

inventing. This implies that, if large companies want to get the benefits of these new products and the potential growth of these markets, acquisition may be the most effective route and, indeed, it may be the only effective route. Q: How can elephants protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Food & Beverage; Food & Beverage
  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

"Once you reach a point where a customer says, 'What are your policies in terms of your supply chain operations?' you better have a good handle on that." Enter the CSO. The position of CSO has been created at an increasing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

operations and supply chain will not only better enable them to manage future pandemics, but also some of the disruptions that climate change is bringing like more intensive storms, droughts, and flooding. I also hope that this pandemic... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

examine the direct entry of platform owners into complementors’ product spaces. It finds that both the motivation and impact of such entries on complementors are multifaceted. The motivation behind platform owners’ direct entry goes beyond View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

distinguish between these mechanisms. Approaches that seek to identify true value from demand, without specifying mechanisms behind this wedge, are most useful when researchers are interested in evaluating allocation policies that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Eric Schiffer

Schiffer Illustration by Daniel Vasconcellos Founded in 1982, 99¢ Only Stores is the oldest single-price retail chain in the country, with 273 locations in California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada offering a mix of food, beverage, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • October 2008 (Revised September 2011)
  • Supplement

PepsiCo's Bid for Quaker Oats (C)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Third in a series of PepsiCo's bid for Quaker Oats. Describes the auction for Quaker Oats including terms of the bids. After winning the auction, Coke's stock price fell dramatically. Coke's Board then refused to approve the deal and withdrew. Quaker then approached... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Stocks; Governing and Advisory Boards; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Tactics; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • Profile

Layeeka Ismail

amazing melting pot with people coming from different corners of the world with different experiences and perspectives, all of whom are passionate, driven, and mission-oriented / want to change the world. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A doctor! My... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

genetically modified foods in Europe. Betting the company on a "life sciences" vision, Shapiro had sold or spun off Monsanto's traditional chemical businesses and moved aggressively to acquire seed companies. Dazzled by the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

though, are not administrative. "The biggest challenge we face is a cultural shift. People who by and large get into these organizations have amazing compassion. They want to clothe the homeless and feed the hungry. And for them to create a business is often at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

of the Church to have a reserve food supply on hand at all times. Given U.S. and global food stock levels, is the Church program a good model for the country? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace