Publications

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

December 1996 (Revised July 1997)
Case

Parker's Biscuits, Inc.: Venturing into China

Carol Wittenberg's first major task as president of the Asia/Pacific business for Parker's Biscuits is to set up a joint venture to manufacture biscuits in China. The team that Wittenberg has put together to find a joint venture partner has narrowed the choice down to... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; China

Educators

March 2005
Teaching Note

7-Eleven, Inc. (TN)

By: David E. Bell

Teaching Note to (9-504-057). View Details

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

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

personal and professional network across three continents. The case considers the steps he has taken to build and cultivate a network that creates value for himself and others.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

in startup mode. Currently the Kraft team is tracking three ongoing trials for pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, and multiple myeloma, and has met with the US Food View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

November 7, 2023
Article

How Courage Can Help Leaders Stay the Course

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Food and Beverage Industry

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23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

catastrophic risks to patients, physicians, pharmaceutical firms, and regulators. Between the early 1960s and the present, national systems were built to collect, standardize, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

decentered. Managers will find food for thought to reconceptualize their corporate home and prepare strategically for the future. Martha Lagace: What is decentering, and why is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

June 1993 (Revised December 1995)
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: The Navigator Project (A)

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Richard O. Mason and Melinda Conrad

Provides an overview of the company's recent organizational changes followed by a discussion of the company's new sales promotion software, "Promotion Planner." The president of Frito-Lay's central division must decide how he should proceed with the rollout of this new... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Trends; Innovation Strategy; Marketing Communications; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

December 2000 (Revised December 2001)
Case

Victor Semenov: A Journey From the Plan to the Market

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Pavel Sorokin

Keywords: Agribusiness; Privatization; Food; Policy; Russia

November 2022
Case

Chêne Bleu: Caught in the Trade Tariff Crossfire

By: Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Daniela Beyersdorfer

A French wine estate faced a 25% tariff on its U.S. exports following a multi-decade-long EU-U.S. trade dispute in the aerospace industry. View Details

Keywords: Trade; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Expansion; Family Business; Distribution; Agribusiness; Taxation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; France; United States; Europe

Educators

12 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

information standards in accounting (through the Financial Accounting Standards Board) and in food labeling (through the Food and Drug... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2018
First Look

March 13, 2018

No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-076 Whole Foods and JANA Partners In 2017, JANA Partners decided to launch... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

think about his successor. ConAgra had become the second-largest food company and No. 1 food service supplier in the United States. Rohde believed that the company, with its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 1983
Supplement

Pepsi-Cola United Kingdom (C)

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Edward J. Hoff

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

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