Food - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2021
Blog Post

HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund

carries a variety of healthy items and foods from “home” such as their famous fresh sugar cane juice. Casabe’s impact potential spans three areas: first, increasing income and wealth creation for the BIPOC community; second, supporting... View Details

10 Nov 2018
News

The 71-Year-Old Ultramarathoner

Breakfast is typically coffee and nonfat yogurt or nonfat cottage cheese, topped with berries and sprouted sunflower seeds. He avoids meat. Wild-caught fish, salads and healthy fats like avocado and nuts comprise lunch and dinner. “My long runs are an excuse to indulge... View Details

05 Apr 2016
News

A Business Plan with Spice

Emily Miller (MBA 2015) and Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015) both served in the US Army in Afghanistan. “We wanted to continue that service through a different avenue, which was through business,” Jung says in an interview on Chicago Tonight. That’s what brought the friends to... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix

Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; aquaculture; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

17 May 2017
News

Nisa Godrej Takes Over

India, Deepika Warrier is the vice-president for the company’s nutrition category. Hindustan Unilever, the country’s largest consumer goods maker, has two women in its executive team. Geetu Verma heads its foods division and Priya Nair is... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Savings and Loam

Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but also retailers, processors,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

of tech upgrade the world food system needs given our increasingly insecure ecosystem, says Sonia Lo (MBA 1994), CEO of Crop One Holdings, which owns and operates the FreshBox brand. Sitting in FreshBox’s makeshift conference room—a long... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

25 May 2016
Blog Post

Favorite Memories from HBS

here? But sure enough, after everybody got settled in, lasting friendships were formed. I’ll always fondly remember having dinner parties in our apartment with friends, chatting into the night over takeout Thai food and a fair amount of... View Details

21 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits

assets, particularly agriculture, is the asset class that is most susceptible to climate change. The global food system contributes upwards of one-third of all anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions, so agriculture is also an area where... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Mickey Millar

quality education and health care, living wages, voting rights, fair treatment by police, even access to healthy food and water. For an America we all love to believe in, but which doesn't exist when you're poor and black. A prestigious... View Details

Portrait Project

Cindy Thanh Tran

working, chicken farming, selling trashed papers... Still, she could not afford extra food for me to stay healthy while studying intensively whenever I was preparing for a regional competition or a nation-wide contest. So, she went for... View Details

07 Dec 2015
News

Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

and agriculture production on the West Coast and in the Far East, and later consulting for several East Coast software companies, Sprinkles made his first pilgrimage to Mexico in 1999 on a four-day journey without food or water.... View Details

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

Relief Turkish Philanthropy Funds Red Crescent (Turkey) (Syria) HBS COMMUNITY NEWS MARCH 29 Hakan Polatoğlu (AMP 178, 2010), board member at the Eskisehir-based food producer Eti, notes that his company has been producing a special... View Details

18 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

Business School Case 909-403 Transformation of COFCO in a Changing Environment China's COFCO, the country's leading edible oil and food importer and exporter and its largest food manufacturer, had in its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

preparations; publicly advertised medicinal, pharmaceutical and dentifrice preparations; food products; household products; cosmetics and toilet preparations; and chemicals, organic colors and pigments, dye stuffs and intermediates."... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

Blog

Inside the Learning: Sustainability—on Campus and Beyond

preparing, and serving food in ways that maximize sustainability while providing healthy meals. Learn more You can also play a role by being more mindful of your on-campus practices. Review some steps you can take to make your stay on... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

Kelp Is on the Way

scale the latter and to offer packaging materials at a price that’s actually viable for that kind of commodity. Between those extremes, Macro Oceans also produces a flexible biopolymer, called alginate, that’s widely used in the food... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustration by Melinda Beck; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

years later, it's clear that she made the right choice. As a director of the Atlanta office of McKinsey & Company and managing partner of McKinsey Southeast United States, Karch has become an expert on numerous business topics, such as retailing, mass merchandising,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo

DiRomualdo spent four years in the Navy as an aviation reconnaissance officer during the Vietnam War before earning his MBA. He then worked for several firms, most notably Hickory Farms, the faltering specialty foods company that he... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Case

Monsanto: Leadership in a New Environment

By: Ray A. Goldberg, James Weber and James M Beagle

Monsanto is the biotechnology leader in agriculture. How does it use its leadership in Round Up to fund long-term research and development in biotechnology that is acceptable to the priority system of consumers in different parts of the world? Includes color exhibits. View Details