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How Companies Can Give More Than Just Thanks
Leadership & Managing People 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. -
How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleLocal entrepreneurs are making food production more efficient. -
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 (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. -
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 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... -
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. -
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. -
How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleA case study of the Brazilian beef industry. -
The CEO of ADM on Expanding Its Focus from Commodities to Consumers
Business management Magazine ArticleHow the agricultural products company moved into value-added nutrition -
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... -
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. -
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... -
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... -
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 (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...
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The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Morning Star, a collection of affiliated companies, had grown steadily since 1970 when Chris Rufer, president and founder, started the business hauling... -
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details DuPont must decide whether to launch a new non-GM (genetically modified) soybean that is tolerant to chemical sprays. In the face of rapid introductions... -
Decofruta: New Flavors in the Business Model
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case provides a detailed description of the various significant points in time or company milestones, since the launching of the concept, the growth... -
Polyface: The Farm of Many Faces
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case explores a method of value creation through exploiting synergies that exist in an environment where there is diversity. The context of the case... -
HEXO: The Road to Marijuana Legalization
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In June 2018, the co-founder and chief brand officer of HEXO Corp. (HEXO), a medical cannabis company in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, needed to prepare his... -
Transforming the Global Fishing Industry: The Marine Stewardship Council at Full Sail?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an NGO -headquartered in London and established by WWF and Unilever in 1997 to set up a certification and eco-labeling... -
Los Grobo: Farming's Future?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the international expansion plans of the second largest grain producer in Latin America, Los Grobo. Based in Argentina with US$550... -
Wilmar International Limited - Managing Multiple Stakeholders in a Global Palm Oil Agribusiness Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Established in 1991, Wilmar grew rapidly to become one of the largest palm oil companies in Southeast Asia, with revenue and net profits of US$23.9 billion... -
Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Laurie Marker, head of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, is trying to form a for-profit institution, the Bush Project, to control the bush encroachment problem... -
Chiquita in Colombia
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Should an international company operating in a violent nation pay a paramilitary group to keep its employees from harm? Executives at Chiquita Brands'... -
Parker-Spencer: The Legal Form of Joint Ventures
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Parker Co., a U.S. based agricultural chemical company with $4 billion in sales, has agreed to a joint venture with Spencer, Inc., a smaller U.S. based... -
Where's the (Sustainable) Beef? McDonald's Quest
Management Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published "Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options," which,... -
Modern Agricultural Farm: Budgeting for Control
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In May 2011, the managing partner of the Modern Agricultural Farm in rural Pakistan was reviewing the set of performance reports for the previous month... -
Bunge: Poised for Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details As CEO of the world's largest oilseed processor, Alberto Weisser of Bunge must not only decide how quickly to expand in fast-growing markets of Eastern... -
Ratnagiri Alphonso Orchard: Bayesian Decision Analysis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In late 2012, the owner of the Ratnagiri Alphonso Orchard considered whether or not to purchase information from a climatology firm regarding the probability... -
Edible Agro Products Limited: Creating Higher Value for Farmers
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The director of Edible Agro Products Limited (EAPL) was reviewing the production figures for Gujarat Til-2, a variety of white sesame that EAPL had introduced... -
A Note on Canadian Dairy Supply Management
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note introduces how supply and demand frameworks can be applied to understand distortions in the economy. -
You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company
30.00View Details Five invaluable lessons for doing sustainability right, doing it profitably, and getting the credit you deserve. Did the title of this book get your attention?... -
Optical Distortion, Inc. (C): The 1988 Reintroduction
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details In 1988, Optical Distortion, Inc. was ready to reintroduce its only product, contact lenses for chickens. Tests had shown that the lenses significantly... -
Monsanto: Helping Farmers Feed the World
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Monsanto has led the effort to bring biotechnology to bear on food production. Through some management missteps and consumer resistance the company had...
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The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Morning Star, a collection of affiliated companies, had grown steadily since 1970 when Chris Rufer, president and founder, started the business hauling... -
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details DuPont must decide whether to launch a new non-GM (genetically modified) soybean that is tolerant to chemical sprays. In the face of rapid introductions... -
Decofruta: New Flavors in the Business Model
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case provides a detailed description of the various significant points in time or company milestones, since the launching of the concept, the growth... -
Polyface: The Farm of Many Faces
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case explores a method of value creation through exploiting synergies that exist in an environment where there is diversity. The context of the case... -
HEXO: The Road to Marijuana Legalization
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In June 2018, the co-founder and chief brand officer of HEXO Corp. (HEXO), a medical cannabis company in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, needed to prepare his... -
Transforming the Global Fishing Industry: The Marine Stewardship Council at Full Sail?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is an NGO -headquartered in London and established by WWF and Unilever in 1997 to set up a certification and eco-labeling... -
Los Grobo: Farming's Future?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the international expansion plans of the second largest grain producer in Latin America, Los Grobo. Based in Argentina with US$550... -
Wilmar International Limited - Managing Multiple Stakeholders in a Global Palm Oil Agribusiness Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Established in 1991, Wilmar grew rapidly to become one of the largest palm oil companies in Southeast Asia, with revenue and net profits of US$23.9 billion... -
Cheetah Conservation Fund Bush Project
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Laurie Marker, head of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, is trying to form a for-profit institution, the Bush Project, to control the bush encroachment problem... -
Chiquita in Colombia
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Should an international company operating in a violent nation pay a paramilitary group to keep its employees from harm? Executives at Chiquita Brands'...