Food - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
News

Faculty Research Online

can boost the power of products in industries as diverse as food and beverages, technology, airlines, and automobiles. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6351.html. Turning Employees into Problem Solvers To improve patient safety, hospital... View Details

01 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond

and environment as an interest on their applications. That critical mass motivates and energizes our community. Our faculty have led an Exec Ed Agribusiness seminar at HBS for more than 50 years, bringing together some 200 agribusiness leaders to discuss the changing... View Details

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Matthew PrebleHarvard Business School Case 912-402 George Weston, CEO of Associated British Foods, and his top executives are deciding how to position the company, a major agribusiness involved in a range of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

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 Administration). There are likely lessons for both regulatory agencies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
News

Case Study: Let’s Dance

board chairman role to begin working on a related venture, a mutual bank to support lending to local food and farming businesses.) The changes slashed errors in half and doubled their packing speed. Operations have increased six-fold in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

"The best-laid schemes of mice and men go often awry." - Robert Burns, 1785 An entrepreneur starts a company with plans to go public, but ultimately accepts a low-ball acquisition offer from a competitor. A newlywed husband plans to spend 10 minutes in Whole... View Details

14 Feb 2017
Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Leticia Tavares On Marriott's Management Acceleration Program

Annual Atlanta Community Food Bank Big Dish, as a restaurant manager, as a housekeeper, as a server, and have spent time learning Marriott’s sales processes in our Southeast sales office. My next role will be in Human Resources at the... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Feedback

supplemental video content online to those visiting theaters as well as an opportunity to watch the same movie with friends and family later at home? Or building online/offline communities around local theaters in addition to competing with View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses

ignore. Immigration policies rooted in common sense, he says, will—in the long run—benefit the United States as well as the 42 million immigrants who call this country home. Quoted "New York City—I don't miss it. Not one bit. The streets reek of View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

13 Sep 2017
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: Gorton's Seafoods

across the United States and Canada. We are constantly engaged with consumers who want food that is delicious and healthy, and we continue to innovate in order to provide products that satisfy these needs. The Gorton's brand offers a... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

Portrait Project

Samantha Gray

I want to stretch my heart to the breaking as a wife, a lover, a mother. I want to be there for my little sister and baby brother when life isn't fair. I want amazing friends who order Indian food that I'll eat, who know my car's name is... View Details

11 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Business and Environment Initiative

showcase the latest in HBS research on business and the environment to a wide audience. Do you host conferences during the year? Yes, we do. For instance, last March, we worked with Alumni Relations to put on Business and Environment 2015: Environmental Challenges and... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni

Northwest Harvest, Washington’s largest food bank, to help distribute food to people in need in Seattle. “It’s important for the club to give back to the community,” notes Kwiker, who also feels the event... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

August 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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30 Apr 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. Patterson represents a supplier who builds a persistent demand and designs production to perpetuate that brand's... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto

07 Oct 2024
News

On the Move: Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008)

After nearly nine years in a series of marketing and strategy roles at Samsung—where he logged approximately 2.5 million air miles and earned status as a “permanent resident” of Korea—Nikos Bartzoulianos (MBA 2008) made the leap to Electrolux Group Chief Marketing... View Details

05 Oct 2018
Blog Post

The Reflective Leader

qualify for the program, be prepared to experience two things that will make you green with envy: the food at the executive education facility is excellent, and the lodging accommodations rival that of many hotels I have frequented. ... View Details

November 1991
Case

Monsanto's March into Biotechnology (B)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

Monsanto has yet to receive FDA approval for BST, a growth hormone for cows. Anti-BST groups have successfully lobbied Wisconsin and Minnesota, major milk producing states, to ban milk from BST-injected cows; the FDA has charged Monsanto with improperly promoting BST... View Details

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Safety; Food; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Conflict and Resolution; Research and Development; Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Minnesota; Wisconsin