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The Marketing Factor for Nonconventional-Protein Products

By: James E. Austin, J. A. Quelch, Joe R. D'Cruz and Edward T. Popper

Keywords: Food; Product Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry

01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story

Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

26 Jan 2015
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The Ingredients for Success

something in a different way.” Markowitz was surrounded by creative types recently as she presented NOCHI’s plans to a group that included restaurant owners, tourism officials, chefs, and food business entrepreneurs. Ti Martin stood up to... View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

06 Jul 2015
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Lights! Camera... Market!

support and market their film,” says Simon, senior director of marketing at Hain Celestial, a leading natural and organic food company based in New York and maker of Terra Chips, a brand of unique vegetable chips, including its signature... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

04 Sep 2019
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Action Plan: A New ’Cue

opinion of what barbecue is and how it should be made.” How would he please people across the barbecue spectrum? Corsello’s solution was bold. He and his partner Jeff Mauro, of Food Network fame, would serve “creative barbecue.” The... View Details

Keywords: April White

August 2013
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Desi Shack: Location Choice in the Big Apple

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Desi Shack is a “fast casual” restaurant, started by two HBS alumni, that serves Indian and Pakistani cuisine in midtown Manhattan. The founders are looking to expand into a second location and also plan to hire a COO, and there is very little room for error in the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurant; New York City; Location Choice; Entrepreneurship; Food; Geographic Location; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)

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10 Feb 2016
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Investing in Sustainability

Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US oil... View Details

June 2000 (Revised January 2010)
Teaching Note

BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company (TN)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Teaching Note for (9-300-018). View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Food; Food and Beverage Industry

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September 2005
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C&S Wholesale Grocers: Self-Managed Teams (TN)

By: Thomas J. DeLong

Keywords: Food; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry

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January 2012
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The James Beard Foundation: Adopting a Fresh Approach

By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon

Keywords: Food; Nonprofit Organizations; Food and Beverage Industry

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30 Sep 2016
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To Lincoln Vintner, It’s All About ‘Exceptional Care’

Keywords: Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

16 Dec 2016
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Cooking Up Connections

It’s a fundamental truth Alexander Blanc (GMP 8) learned at an early age: food brings people together. As a child growing up in Russia, Blanc remembers helping his mother cook so much food on his birthday... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Feedback

This pioneering effort is now a multibillion-dollar industry. —Donn Walklet (MBA 1976) via alumni.hbs.edu Community from Cuisine Re: Doug Duda (MBA 1985) Food is love, and love drives consumer behavior. As the developed world becomes... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go

For all their variety, restaurants have two things in common: a kitchen where food is prepared and a dining area where customers consume it. But what if you could use technology to ditch the dining area and just keep the kitchen, trimming... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

01 Sep 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle over Who Decides What We Eat by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Chelsea Green Publishing) Do Americans have the right to get their food... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

Clarence Francis

Francis oversaw General Foods with a product line that included the successful Post cereals, Maxwell House and Sanka Coffee, Log Cabin Syrup and Jell-O. After absorbing an initial $17 million loss in the frozen View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

Photos from Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. Photos from Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. What inspired you to launch Nilus as “an impact-driven company that applies technology to fight against food insecurity”? “We just couldn't believe that one-third... View Details

Daniel F. Gerber

Gerber created the baby foods market as well as the company’s advertising campaign - the “Gerber Baby,” a symbol that became world-famous. By 1973, Gerber was the world’s largest supplier of baby foods with... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Mar 2015
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Feedback

herbs. Every time we go to the US, we think how late the market is in getting out a good frozen food chain. I hope Luvo will soon become a household name even for cooks without a microwave. —Denise Dampierre (MBA 1988) via alumni.hbs.edu... View Details

Keywords: Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing