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- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
period of flat revenues or declining revenues, that sends a message to everybody in the food industry ” China, for example, has seen its share of well-publicized cases of food contamination. In 2008, melamine was found in milk products...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
diet and raised without antibiotics or hormones. There are no artificial colors and flavors. Almond or cashew milk is used in place of cream or butter. And instead of a tray, each dish is served in a paper pouch that emulates the French...
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Janelle Nanos
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
her frustration during an interview for a case study. “We had consistent performance, but generated no confidence,” Hood told him. “People did not believe we were relevant.” Foley says some value investors even wanted Microsoft to quit pushing into new businesses and...
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- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
industry. He came to China in 2004 and set up Huaxia dairy farm with the goal to build a world-class dairy farm in China. In 2015, Huaxia had three farms in operation with approximately 20,000 cows (including 7,200 milking cows) and a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
active ingredients for anti-nausea drugs, even the drug inside an EpiPen. There were also more mundane items like milking machine parts and telescopic gunsights for rifles. The careful selection avoided high-profile items like smartphones...
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by Willy C. Shih;
Manufacturing;
Auto;
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Air Transportation;
Technology;
Telecommunications
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
proteins. We drink more milk and eat more meat than we have ever had in past generations, and that's starting to have an impact on the health that we're experiencing across the West. “What PAMU is trying to do is to create really...
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- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
being the real culprit. While social networks claim to be enabling great social causes, users are starting to understand they're being milked indirectly for money. There's a sense of betrayal, a feeling that "you didn't tell me what...
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- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
responsibility for the company’s impact and considers ways in which they can help drive sustainability. Collaboration throughout the value chain. Another insight came from our next visit that same day, which was to Arla Foods. Arla uses Grundfos pumps to move View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
Sponsor of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the Official dairy supplier of the games, it is betting that the brand can go further beyond China. Will the day that tykes from Topeka have a bottle of Yili milk in their hands be coming...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
pricing, customer selection, and management of prices and accounts in an inherently uncertain, volatile demand environment. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-424 The a2 View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
for its milk glass, which it made more of and for a longer period of time than any other company. But it was once recognized as a glassware innovator, pioneering several kinds of glass that are now usually attributed to other companies....
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- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
chromate was used to make milk look creamier; and various poisonous ingredients were used to create bright colors for various candies, reportedly causing some children to fall ill or even die. Hisano highlights key dates in food coloring...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
expansion for future generations. A rewritten version of an earlier case. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=605047 Nestle's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
School Module Note 608-076 Introduces students to the concepts covered in the Managing in the Information Age module on Network IT. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608076 Nestle Milk...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
loomed large. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 910-403 GTC Biotherapeutics: Developing Medicines in the Milk of Goats GTC is the first company in the animal world to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
glasses at the tablet's display, the disagreeable words remained there. "You'd think," he said, to no one in particular, "someone might give a guy break. This being his first day and all " Shoving aside the cereal bowl, sloshing milk onto...
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- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
them involved from day one: ask them to take the full paternity leave; ask them to track a newborn's milk intake and count soiled diapers; ask them to manage childcare applications/babysitter hunting, etc. Then, PRAISE them directly, and...
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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
traditional firms. "Some products like electronics you don't mind waiting a few days for Amazon to deliver—others like fresh groceries you need it now, in the store ," says Teixeira. "It's unlikely people will ever decouple showrooming from buying View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- Web
Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA
coffee is Ethiopia’s gift to Earth. Who knew that the coffee plant was first discovered in Ethiopia? Since caffeine was sure to have an effect on me, I kept it light and ordered coffee with my milk instead. On the upper right corner is a...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
cut spending. As a businessman, I know the money you don't spend often representsyour profit. In a Wisconsin vein, I'm working to change the formula by which dairy prices are paid to farmers. We are a dairy state, and because of a law from the 1940s, our dairy farmers...
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Susan Young