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A Study of the Champagne Industry Shows That Women Have Stronger Networks, and Profit from Them
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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... -
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... -
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... -
Banana War Maneuvers
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHow Dole beat Chiquita by working around a restrictive EU trade policy instead of struggling against it. -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleA case study of the Brazilian beef industry. -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Making Small Farms More Sustainable — and Profitable
Business and society Digital ArticleA case study of Better Life Farming, an innovative public-private partnership in India, Indonesia, and Bangladesh. -
No Company Can Solve a Massive Global Problem on Its Own
Public-private partnerships Digital ArticleBut when organizations work together, change can happen. -
The CEO of Cabot Creamery on Beating Sustainability Benchmarks
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleBecoming a B Corp was affirmation of Cabot’s existing mission. -
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... -
Accountants Will Save the World
Global Business Digital ArticleFactor social benefits and the use of resources into a company's value.
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Applegate Farms
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Mission Produce in 2022
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Founded by CEO Steve Barnard in 1983, California-based Mission Produce was a leading supplier of Hass avocados with a global sourcing, marketing, and... -
Brand Extension through Innovation: Sound Agriculture Grows the Greens
Management Case Study8.95View Details "This case follows the decision-making process of Erik Wolfe, senior product marketing manager at Sound Agriculture, an agriculture technology company,... -
Chiquita Brands International (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details When a new banana import policy is implemented in 1993 by the European Union, Chiquita Brands International, the world's largest banana distributor, watches... -
Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details In an effort to capture market share in the children's foods category, Disney Consumer Products (DCP) debuted a broad line of "better for you" foods,... -
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details A consumer attitude survey involving more than 1,000 cranberry users has been conducted. Multivariate statistical procedures including factor analysis,... -
Orchid Species Preservation Foundation: Choosing a Direction
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Orchid Species Preservation Foundation (OSPF) was a not-for-profit organization in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was dedicated to the preservation... -
Top Cloud-Agri Technology Co., Ltd.: Digital Business Model
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Top Cloud-Agri Technology Co., Ltd. (TPYN) was a Chinese high-tech company serving the agricultural industry. By implementing a digital business model,... -
Canopy Growth Corporation: Accounting Problems in the Cannabis Industry?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In November 2019, John Fowler, founder and principle of consulting firm Blaise Ventures (Blaise) had been listening to a conference call where the management... -
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... -
ReTain: Managing Growth and Market Share
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on how Johan Pienaar, Valent Biosciences Corporation (VBC) Global Business Manager for Plant Growth Regulators, should manage growth... -
Uptown Cigarette
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details To recapture lost market share, tobacco giant R. J. Reynolds (RJR) developed Uptown, the first cigarette brand created and targeted specifically at a... -
Codevasf
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness... -
Suncrest Agribusiness Company: Optimizing Seed Production
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Suncrest Agribusiness Company (Suncrest), an agribusiness firm based in the Midwestern United States, was one of the largest seed manufacturers in the... -
Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato
Sales & Marketing Case Study15.05View Details Privately held Simplot has developed a new genetically engineered potato that substantially reduces waste and does not turn brown after cutting. Unlike... -
VC Decision-Making in India: Aavishkaar and Milk Mantra (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The case profiles the protagonist, Vineet Rai, managing partner of Aavishkaar Venture Management Services (an Indian, early stage VC firm with a focus... -
McKay Nursery Co. (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details McKay Nursery Co., founded in 1897 in Waterloo, Wisconsin, had a longstanding history of commitment to employees. The close-knit organization was a pioneer... -
Unigrains
Sales & Marketing Case Study14.00View Details Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness sector for decades and,... -
Global Climate Cooperation and Conflict: Brazil and the Paris Agreement
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details It is March 2019, and Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's newly elected president, is deciding what to do about Brazil's participation in the 2016 Paris Agreement... -
Brewing Peace Philippines: Customer Relationship Management
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Brewing Peace was a company based in the Philippines that sold coffee beans. Despite having a base of 80 customers, 70 per cent of its business depended...
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Applegate Farms
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Mission Produce in 2022
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Founded by CEO Steve Barnard in 1983, California-based Mission Produce was a leading supplier of Hass avocados with a global sourcing, marketing, and... -
Brand Extension through Innovation: Sound Agriculture Grows the Greens
Management Case Study8.95View Details "This case follows the decision-making process of Erik Wolfe, senior product marketing manager at Sound Agriculture, an agriculture technology company,... -
A Study of the Champagne Industry Shows That Women Have Stronger Networks, and Profit from Them
Global Business Digital ArticleMore socializing and more trust lead to more revenue. -
Chiquita Brands International (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details When a new banana import policy is implemented in 1993 by the European Union, Chiquita Brands International, the world's largest banana distributor, watches... -
Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details In an effort to capture market share in the children's foods category, Disney Consumer Products (DCP) debuted a broad line of "better for you" foods,... -
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details A consumer attitude survey involving more than 1,000 cranberry users has been conducted. Multivariate statistical procedures including factor analysis,... -
Orchid Species Preservation Foundation: Choosing a Direction
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Orchid Species Preservation Foundation (OSPF) was a not-for-profit organization in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was dedicated to the preservation... -
Mutti S.p.a., Teaching Note
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Olymel: Strategic Expansion in the Pork Industry, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note to case W20675