Publications

25 Feb 2020
News

In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee

Friday nights while enjoying all kinds of food and beer.” Serendipity: “I met my wife, [Donna Eplett (MBA 1989)], when we were summer interns at Pepsi-Cola in New York City. We started dating our second year at HBS, and it just blossomed... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

April 2018
Supplement

Breakfast at the Paramount

By: Ryan W. Buell

The Paramount is a 44-seat diner on Charles Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. A frequent "Best of Boston" award winner, the restaurant is a perennial favorite among locals and tourists, particularly for brunch on the weekends, when lines often stretch... View Details

Keywords: Food; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston

19 Nov 2020
News

How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain

Photo courtesy of Panera Bread Photo courtesy of Panera Bread As the CEO of Panera Bread Co, Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) was intent on finding ways to make sure the company’s workers weren’t left behind during the pandemic. The company invited its furloughed... View Details

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

14 Oct 2014
News

The Steve Jobs of Beer

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2014
News

Chili recipes

Traditional Texas Recipe [winner] by Matt Ashbaugh (MBA 2014) Ingredients Sweet/fresh chilies: 3 whole New Mexico chilies, stems and seeds removed Hot chilies: 3 Arbol chilies, stems and seeds removed Rich/fruity chilies: 2 Ancho and 2 Pasilla chilies, stems and seeds... View Details

John R. Simplot

Investing in businesses that ranged from cattle to potatoes to fertilizer, Simplot used his talent at achieving efficiency and at spotting a growing market to garner enormous profits. Simplot capitalized on the Army’s World War II demands for View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

Roger A. Enrico

Enrico helped to transform PepsiCo through a number of major initiatives including the spin-off of its fast food restaurant chains (Tricon), the acquisition of Tropicana, and the initial public offering of its bottling business. Through... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

James L. Kraft

Kraft created a multi-million dollar processed food supply company. He was instrumental in perfecting the method of preserving cheese, so that it could be stored for a longer period of time in any climate. Consumption of cheese in America... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

01 Sep 2012
News

First Pitch

Ario Keshani (MBA 2011) took his turn during his class’s One-Year Reunion to make a 30-second elevator pitch for souschef meals, a Maryland-based start-up that delivers ready-to-cook meals to customers’ doorsteps. Keshani was one of 20 classmates who participated in... View Details

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

October 1995
Article

Malnutrition in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients: Current Prevalence

By: K. M. Hendricks, C. Duggan, L. Gallagher, A. C. Carlin, D. S. Richardson, S. B. Collier, W. Simpson and C. Lo

Keywords: Health; Food

Find at Harvard

company to the top spot in cereal sales, outpacing rival Kellogg’s for the first time since 1906. In 2001, Sanger led the merger of General Mills and Pillsbury to create one of the largest food companies in the world. In the process, he... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

March 2007
Teaching Note

Organics: Coming Center Stage? (TN)

By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin

Keywords: Food

September 1985 (Revised September 1987)
Case

H.J. Heinz Co.: Plastic Bottle Ketchup (A)

By: John A. Quelch

The Heinz Ketchup product manager must decide whether or not to launch a new plastic bottle and, if so, what marketing program and support to place behind it. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Food; Product Launch; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry

September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
Case

Siba Mtongana: A Pioneering Chef in South Africa

By: Boris Groysberg, Susan Seligson, Katherine Connolly Baden and Robin Abrahams

For Siba Mtongana, South African celebrity chef, the year 2020 was fraught with challenges and unknowns. Her brand was strong and she was certain it would survive. But as she fine-tuned her growth and innovation strategy in a shaky, unpredictable economy in the midst... View Details

Keywords: Food; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; South Africa

September 1998 (Revised October 2001)
Case

SADAFCO

SADAFCO has long enjoyed a dominant position in the milk and ice cream markets in Saudi Arabia. In the mid-1990s, this dominance was under threat as Nestle, Unilever, and Mars all entered the ice cream market. The case outlines the Saudi Arabian ice cream wars. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Food; Multinational Firms and Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia