food and beverage - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

the eighteenth-century pottery and china manufacturer; H.J. Heinz, who started the famous food company in 1869; and Marshall Field, the late nineteenth-century Chicago... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

denial has become so high. We are living in a less forgiving world than we once did." We asked Tedlow to discuss how denial can cripple a company, and what can be done about it. Martha Lagace: What is the meaning of denial as you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 7

Business School Case 315-055 Al Islami Foods: Beyond Dubai In 2014, Al Islami Foods CEO Marwan Al Garem considers his company's history of growth in Dubai and its growth opportunities within View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Teaching Interest

Overview

The Business of Aesthetics is a new course for second-year students who are considering careers in sectors and companies whose long-term financial value is built on their ability to deliver aesthetic value. Such companies are rewarded not only for eliciting a high... View Details

Keywords: Aesthetics; Luxury Goods; Retail; Consumer Goods; Design; Creativity; Consumer Behavior; Brand Building; Experience Goods; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

511-075 By 2009, Hikma Pharmaceuticals operated 13 manufacturing plants in 8 countries of which 5 were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Hikma tracked its sales revenues over the period to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

drug had received approval several years prior. Moreover, Vectibix had also received Food and Drug Administration approval in 2006. During additional trials, Amgen has learned that the Vectibix is only... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

operations cover food and home and personal care, and its brands include Lipton Tea, Hellmann's, Bird's Eye, Wall's, Ben View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

to bolster and enhance the taste of nearly all processed foods because manufacturing techniques weaken the real flavors. The development of those added flavors requires a high degree of customization View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

that the buyer's plans will go awry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208060 Fu Ji Food and Catering Harvard Business School Case 208-004 Fu Ji, the largest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

"exhortation." He sees many of these things in each of several organizations—including Whole Foods Markets, W. L. Gore, and Google—that he examines in some depth. These organizations share some... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

North America in 2001 after a class-action lawsuit was filed and certified in Washington, D.C. against Sodexo Marriot Services, Inc., the food services division that Sodexo had merged with in 1998. In 2002,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder return. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

marketing organization, selling 46 products, including pouched milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and infant food through a million retailers across the country, and is the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought

things. And I've heard all that schlock about how Lou Gerstner was a food company CEO when he took over and saved IBM. But I don't buy it. That was a different company, in a... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan & Shannon O'Donnell; Aerospace

February 2007 (Revised February 2009)
Case

A Differentiation Strategy at ASDA

By: David E. Bell and Nitin Sanghavi

The Wal-Mart CEO has challenged his company to do more to help mankind. The British subsidiary, ASDA, is reviewing its activities in the environment/social arena. View Details