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- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott. “We’re the first scalable version of this model. Because it’s bigtime American agriculture, we can do a series of these $100 million funds. Each fund is the equivalent carbon offset as if we had built an $86 million wind farm.” With demand for View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
tell the story of how they launched SmartPak, a rapidly growing company in the horse- and dog-supplements business that landed smack in the middle of the melamine-pet food scare last spring. Seeking Silent Voices. Successful...
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Frederick H. Prince
After making a great deal of money investing in industrial ventures, Prince took an interest in stockyards, purchasing and organizing a group of small companies into the Chicago Stock Yards Company. Prince's company grew to have many...
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Food & Tobacco
- 13 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Gorton's Seafoods
OrganizationPaul Coz, Vice President Human Resources, Gorton's Seafoods Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Gorton's, America's iconic seafood company, is the category leader in frozen, value added seafood, providing...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty View Details
Charles E. Hires
Hires invented one of the world’s most popular soft drinks – root beer. He incorporated his company with a capitalization of $300,000, which steadily expanded into millions. He was also a pioneer in the production of condensed milk, View Details
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Food & Tobacco
- Portrait Project
Kevin Omwega
people in Kenya face every day. I want to be there for them like Eric was for me. I want to help the single mother who works twenty hours a day to provide her family with basic needs, such as food and water. I want to help her children...
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- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
religious employer allow his employees access to contraceptives or break with healthcare legislation? People and organizations of faith often face moral decisions that have significant consequences. Research in psychology found that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 1994 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Mrs. Fields, Inc. (1977 - 1987)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Keri O. Pearlson
Describes a small company selling freshly baked goods through privately owned specialty stores (each store sells only Mrs. Fields products). The company has about 8,000 employees worldwide and less than 150 information systems people for a unique leverage of MIS...
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Information Technology;
Organizations;
Management Systems;
Business Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Keri O. Pearlson. "Mrs. Fields, Inc. (1977 - 1987)." Harvard Business School Case 194-064, April 1994. (Revised October 2001.)
James B. Duke
Five principal cigarette manufacturing companies merged to form American Tobacco in 1890 with Duke as head and with a capitalization of $25 million. In 1895, Duke began an aggressive campaign to absorb companies making other kinds of tobacco products. Duke View Details
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Food & Tobacco
- June 1994 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Mrs. Fields, Inc. (1988-1992)
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri O. Pearlson and Randi Wade Purchia
Continues the story of Mrs. Fields Cookies. Explores the new challenges the company faced managing its geographic growth and its expansion of products and markets through combination stores. Details the decision of Debbi and Randy Fields to delegate management...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Expansion;
Growth Management;
Organizational Structure;
Globalization;
Information Management;
Food and Beverage Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Keri O. Pearlson, and Randi Wade Purchia. "Mrs. Fields, Inc. (1988-1992)." Harvard Business School Case 194-065, June 1994. (Revised October 2001.)
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
bottom lines. The event, titled Collaborating Business Strategy with Local Communities, featured Peter Feigin, President of the Milwaukee Bucks, and Kevin Steiner, President and CEO of West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. Both shared their stories of how they built...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
Kresge Way | About
ideas with peers, scholars, and business practitioners from across the globe. Before Kresge, food service was located at Cowie Hall, a temporary structure built by the US Navy and sold to the School after World War II. Kresge was a...
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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change
38,000 active international organizations from 300 countries and territories - including intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Capital IQ -...
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- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
The SIP format provided a powerful forum for discussion and debate with many leaders in higher education. It also provided me with enormous personal and professional clarity.” The course culminated with individual and team presentations of students’ final responses to...
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Protecting Yourself Against Phishing | Information Technology
Protecting Yourself Against Phishing What is Phishing? Phishing is when an email claiming to be from a legitimate source, such as an HBS email address, your bank, or your favorite retailer, attempts to trick you into providing your personal credentials or information....
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- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used...
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Mallika Ahluwalia
school system, Mallika accepted her first international development challenge. Working in a small team, Mallika helped run a United Nations World Food Program project in Namibia that fed 90,000 AIDS-affected orphans. "I got closely...
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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1465064 August 2013 Institutional Logics in Action. Vol. 39B, Research in the Sociology of Organizations Series, edited by Michael Lounsbury and Eva Boxenbaum, 175-198. Emerald...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
Spring 2021 to form five deal teams, each conducting diligence on a different business. As the semester draws to a close, the team is completing investments in few of these businesses. How Does It Actually Work? The fund is held as a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) with an...
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