Food and Beverage Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2015
News

The End of Cows?

affect far more than your dinner. “It’s potentially severely disruptive in that it gets a lot of the current players out of the market and completely changes the supply chain,” says Alvarez, who explores this impact in a new case study... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Food and Beverage Stores

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture -... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

November 1983
Supplement

Pepsi-Cola United Kingdom (B)

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Edward J. Hoff

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom; United States

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September 2000
Teaching Note

Boston Beer Company: Light Beer Decision TN

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and John T. Gourville

Teaching Note for (9-899-058). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Boston

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April 2010
Teaching Note

Swire Beverages: Implementing CSR in China

By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason

Teaching Note for [410021]. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Health; Organizational Design; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Safety; Natural Environment; Brands and Branding; Interests; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; China

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April 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Teaching Note

Nghe An Tate & Lyle Sugar Company (Vietnam), TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman

Teaching Note for (9-202-054). View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Price; Projects; Valuation; Financing and Loans; Problems and Challenges; Food and Beverage Industry; Viet Nam

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09 Aug 2011
News

A Toast to Macchu Pisco

Asher: Distilling pisco, riding a wave. Courtesy Melanie Asher In America, it’s the new big thing in cocktails and mixology, or so proclaimed the New York Times (June 22, 2011): “Pisco, the clear grape spirit of South America .the... View Details

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

including a 20-article investigative series in the New York Times that discovered similar cases at other hospitals. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started investigations of the CT devices, dozens... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

seminar venues in France; and the Vanguard Group, which specializes in investment management in the United States. Breakthrough service providers are changing the rules of the game for entire industries... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

02 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

can redefine the Health care industry and sparked my interest in exploring how the public and private sectors can work together to improve patient outcomes. With the summer... View Details

December 1999
Case

Lees Supermarkets: Customer Loyalty Programs

By: David E. Bell, Rajiv Lal and Ann Leamon

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Marketing Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry

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08 Oct 2015
News

Zevia CEO Paddy Spence on Being the Scrappy Underdog

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services, business services, telecommunications, and consumer products. It was during a product line analysis for a pet View Details

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture -... View Details

January 2022
Supplement

SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher

A continuation of the events described in the (A) Case, “SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants,” (HBS Case No. 222-022). View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Distribution Industry; Distribution Industry; United States

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13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

15 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 15

working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2302589 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 514-022 Tesco Group Food In 2010, the world's third largest retailer created a new centralized sourcing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2010
Teaching Note

Ebro Puleva (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman

Teaching Note for 510026. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Financial Crisis; Business Exit or Shutdown; Organizational Structure; Globalization; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain

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2010
Article

The Strategic Use of Brand Biographies

By: Jill Avery, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan and Juliet Schor

We introduce the concept of a brand biography to describe an emerging trend in branding in which firms author a dynamic, historical account of the events that have shaped the brand over time. Using a particular type of brand biography, "the underdog," we empirically... View Details