Publications

June 2010
Article

Leveraging Consumer Psychology to Make It Easier to Eat Less

By: Jason Riis

Keywords: Food

Under his leadership, Mars built the world’s largest candy company. After Milky Way’s and M&M’s success, he began to diversify the company’s production and introduced packaged pet foods to the British market. He also adopted a... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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

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10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

helped to popularize Peruvian cuisine throughout Latin America and increasingly the world. "The big mission is to use Peruvian food as an instrument to put our culture in the world," Gastón Acurio has said. Despite their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

John Stuart

of diversification, purchasing pet foods companies and other household brands, the most notable of which is the Aunt Jemima line. In 1918, the firm had sales of $123 million, but by the end of Stuart’s tenure, sales reached $277 million... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

02 Dec 2013
News

Do-It-Yourself Dinners Inspired a Booming Business

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

April 2012
Case

Introducing iSnack 2.0: The New Vegemite

By: Anat Keinan, Francis Farrelly and Michael Beverland

Vegemite is an iconic Australian breakfast spread and is often seen as a quintessential Australian product. This case focuses on Kraft's decision to revitalize brand performance through the introduction of a brand extension. Drawing on extensive social media analysis... View Details

Keywords: Food; Product Launch; Conflict and Resolution; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

2013
Article

Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews

By: Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi and Michael Luca

Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Food; Governance Compliance; Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941) coin the term agribusiness 236 alumni work in the food and beverage industry 2,406 alumni list... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

June 2011
Teaching Note

Red Lobster (TN)

By: Jason Riis

Teaching Note for 511-052. View Details

Keywords: Markets; Research; Opportunities; Customer Satisfaction; Sales; Segmentation; Food; Food and Beverage Industry

June 1999 (Revised December 2002)
Case

Supermercados Disco: Regional Strategy

The Disco chain of supermarkets has pursued a successful local niche strategy in Argentina to compete with intense competition from multinational chains. Now Disco considers options for expanding its regional strength. View Details

Keywords: Food; Marketing Strategy; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Argentina

19 Jul 2013
News

All in Good Time

and then, hopefully, you have a real reward in the end because you've made a difference in people's lives." At Eos, Silbert is hoping to make a difference by targeting hunger in Massachusetts, with a specific initiative to get affordable healthy, nourishing View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

23 Jul 2014
News

Meal-Delivery Startups Look for Winning Recipe

Keywords: Plated; Blue Apron; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

01 Oct 2001
News

Q&A: Orin Smith

A native of rural Chehalis, Washington, Orin C. Smith (MBA '67) was an EVP for Danzas, an international freight shipping company, when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz approached him in 1990 to join the fledgling company. Schultz, Smith recalls, was "personable, creative,... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

December 2021 (Revised June 2022)
Case

Darden Restaurants: The Nine Square Feet

By: Joshua D. Margolis and James Barnett

In June 2021, Darden Restaurants CEO Gene Lee contemplates how to position the world’s biggest full-service restaurant more than one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Agribusiness; Change; Decision Making; Food; Human Resources; Leadership; Operations; Strategy; Health Pandemics; Opportunities; Food and Beverage Industry; United States