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Enlightened Farming
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAgricultural inventions from 18th-century noble estates in France, including a wheat thresher, a tree transporter, and an incubation shed for chicken... -
Transforming Life, Transforming Business: The Life-Science Revolution
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIf you think the Internet has changed the shape of business, just imagine what genetic engineering is going to do. In this groundbreaking article, Juan... -
Class--or Mass? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleJim Hargrove, the marketing director of $820 million Neptune Gourmet Seafood, is having a bad week. Neptune is the most upmarket player in the $20 billion... -
A Study of the Champagne Industry Shows That Women Have Stronger Networks, and Profit from Them
Gender Digital ArticleMore socializing and more trust lead to more revenue. -
Dealing with Drought (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen Walker Farms is hit with a surface-water allocation of zero for a third straight year because of the state's ongoing and extended drought, it must... -
How Snapple Got Its Juice Back
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn 1993, Quaker Oats paid $1.7 billion for the rapidly growing Snapple brand. In 1997, it sold the brand to Triarc for a mere $300 million. In 2000, Triarc... -
Cutting Edge in Auctions
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe state of the art in auctions is not on the Web--it's in the venerable flower auction halls of Holland, where over 30 million flowers change hands... -
No Company Can Solve a Massive Global Problem on Its Own
Global Business Digital ArticleBut when organizations work together, change can happen. -
How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleA case study of the Brazilian beef industry. -
Growth Through Global Sustainability: An Interview with Monsanto's CEO Robert B. Shapiro
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHow do we face the prospect that creating a profitable, growing company might require intolerable abuse of the natural world? Monsanto--with its history... -
Dealing with Drought (HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen Walker Farms is hit with a surface-water allocation of zero for a third straight year because of the state's ongoing and extended drought, it must... -
Dealing with Drought (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen Walker Farms is hit with a surface-water allocation of zero for a third straight year because of the state's ongoing and extended drought, it must... -
Banana War Maneuvers
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHow Dole beat Chiquita by working around a restrictive EU trade policy instead of struggling against it. -
How Companies Can Give More Than Just Thanks
Global Business Digital ArticleMany cultures around the world celebrate a yearly thanksgiving festival, a time when we express our gratitude for a successful harvest. While observances... -
Making Small Farms More Sustainable - and Profitable
Global Business Digital ArticleA case study of Better Life Farming, an innovative public-private partnership in India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. -
The CEO of ADM on Expanding Its Focus from Commodities to Consumers
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn the early 2010s ADM, a century-old agricultural products and services company, embarked on a big transformation. It streamlined and reorganized its... -
Accountants Will Save the World
Global Business Digital ArticleFactor social benefits and the use of resources into a company's value. -
How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe world population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050. For Africa, which is projected to be home to about 2 billion of these global citizens, farm productivity... -
The CEO of Cabot Creamery on Beating Sustainability Benchmarks
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleBecoming a B Corp was affirmation of Cabot’s existing mission.
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E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health
Sales & Marketing Case Study14.00View Details Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower... -
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Marfrig, one of the world's leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The... -
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Haiti Hope was to provide 25,000 Haitian farmers with world-class business and industry expertise to help them grow mangos more efficiently and abundantly,... -
Yum! China
Sales & Marketing Case Study14.00View Details Since the first KFC opened in China in 1987, Yum--under Sam Su's leadership--had built the largest restaurant company by far in mainland China. Averaging... -
Philip Morris Companies and Kraft, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Gives students the opportunity to explore the effect of substantial free cash flow on corporate acquisition and operating strategies. Students are also... -
ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details In 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 independent operating companies into a focused, value-added... -
Delta Plastics of the South: Product Innovation in a Resistant Market
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Delta Plastics of the South developed a new software product, Pipe Planner, which was complementary to its core product, Polytube, used by farmers to... -
Medicine Hat Meat Traders: Beefing Up a Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In March 2019, entrepreneur Greg Pahl was contemplating the next steps for Medicine Hat Meat Traders; the past year was the company's best in terms of... -
Archer Daniels Midland: Direction and Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details Sets out the strategy and competitive competencies of one of the leading grain trade and processing companies in the world. An overview of the company's... -
Robert Mondavi and the Wine Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Examines the competitive challenges facing Robert Mondavi as the wine industry begins to consolidate globally. Mondavi faces challenges from foreign competitors... -
ConAgra Foods
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2002, ConAgra Foods CEO Bruce Rohde was deliberating the next steps in the process of transforming the company from an agribusiness giant to a value-added... -
Deere & Co.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details John Deere & Co. wants to improve shareholder value and provide incentives to do so. The task is difficult in a volatile agriculture and construction... -
NatuRi Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details NatuRi Corp. was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from the byproducts of rice bran oil production.... -
The Lao Coffee Industry: Implementing Vertical Integration for a Social Cause at Bolaven Farms
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2007, Bolaven Farms is a coffee business with a social purpose. Set up in Laos and Hong Kong, Bolaven Farms aims at providing high-quality... -
Boston Beer Co.: Samuel Adams, Brewmaster Leading a Revolution
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Boston Beer Co. revolutionized the beer industry by identifying and responding to a new consumer segment. Using the excess capacity in the brewing industry... -
Silverton Winery
Management Case Study8.95View Details In May 2022, a consultant with global management consulting firm Kearney was working on a project for a private equity client, Opal Partners Inc. (Opal).... -
A New Financial Policy at Swedish Match
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Swedish Match is a profitable smokeless tobacco company with low debt compared to other firms in its industry. The firms CFO now wants to revise the firms... -
Organics: Coming Center Stage?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The organics movement has certainly come a long way. From hippie farming communes and a scattering of natural food stores in the 1960s, organics outgrew... -
RJR Nabisco
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Gives students the opportunity to explore issues facing the board of directors in a leveraged buyout. RJR Nabisco is valued under different operating... -
Fonterra: Taking on the Dairy World
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Fonterra was a cooperatively owned dairy company--New Zealand's largest company and the world's largest exporter of dairy products. To maintain its leadership,...
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E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health
Sales & Marketing Case Study14.00View Details Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower... -
BeautifulCoffee and Fair Trade: Working with Local Farmer Co-operatives in Nepal, Teaching Notes
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HEC202. -
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Marfrig, one of the world's leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The... -
Kamoriongo Poultry Co-operative Project, Teaching Note
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note to case W20127 -
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Haiti Hope was to provide 25,000 Haitian farmers with world-class business and industry expertise to help them grow mangos more efficiently and abundantly,... -
Midland Bull Test - Going Green? (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt was June 2008 at Midland Bull Test in south-central Montana. The (A) and (B) cases feature Leo McDonnell, Jr. and his wife "Sam," the owners of Midland... -
Yum! China
Sales & Marketing Case Study14.00View Details Since the first KFC opened in China in 1987, Yum--under Sam Su's leadership--had built the largest restaurant company by far in mainland China. Averaging... -
Meakin Enterprises: Balancing Risks in the Agriculture Industry, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case W17268. -
Philip Morris Companies and Kraft, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Gives students the opportunity to explore the effect of substantial free cash flow on corporate acquisition and operating strategies. Students are also... -
ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details In 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 independent operating companies into a focused, value-added...