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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleA case study of the Brazilian beef industry. -
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. -
Accountants Will Save the World
Global Business Digital ArticleFactor social benefits and the use of resources into a company's value. -
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 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... -
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... -
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. -
No Company Can Solve a Massive Global Problem on Its Own
Public-private partnerships Digital ArticleBut when organizations work together, change can happen. -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The CEO of Cabot Creamery on Beating Sustainability Benchmarks
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleBecoming a B Corp was affirmation of Cabot’s existing mission. -
Banana War Maneuvers
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHow Dole beat Chiquita by working around a restrictive EU trade policy instead of struggling against it. -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...
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Sunkist Growers, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details A new media strategy for lemon advertising involving the concentration of the entire budget in a single-print vehicle, is under consideration. -
Locally Laid Egg Company: No Time for Laying Around
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Locally Laid Egg Company is a family-owned company based out of Duluth, Minnesota. The company was established in 2012 as the first commercial grade... -
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... -
John Mackey and Whole Foods Market, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Traces the history of organic agriculture from its pre-industrial roots to the present day, and examines the growth of Whole Foods Market in the context... -
Syngenta and Thought for Food: A Food-Security Innovation Platform
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, the corporate affairs executive of the leading Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Syngenta) and founder of the next-generation... -
Yum! China
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View 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... -
Alrich Farms: Cash Flow Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 2016, the owners of a family farm near London, Ontario, Canada, wanted to evaluate the financial status of their business. After 30 years in... -
Indupalma (A1): The Initial Years, 1961-1977
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Indupalma was managed as a plantation since its creation in 1961. Labor conditions were grim, and labor unrest was at a peak when the general manager... -
Chateau d'Agel (A): From Concept to Deal
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Robin Budowski, a wine specialist and enthusiast, had dreamed about owning and running a vineyard for years, and on 28 July 2003 he was closer than ever... -
Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM),... -
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,... -
The Great American Pigout
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case describes and presents the hog industry crisis of 1998, when farmers suffered from the lowest prices in 30 years, as a perplexing systems problem.... -
Totgars' Co-Operative Sale Society Dovetailing Business to Meet Members' Needs
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Totgars' Co-operative Sale Society (TSS) is an arecanut marketing co-operative headquartered at Sirsi in Uttara Kannada (UK) district of Karnataka, India.... -
Born Global: Timeless Herbal Care Prepares to Supply Medical Marijuana to Canadians
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2012, a former crown attorney for Canada's Department of Justice started Timeless Herbal Care, a company that was intended to capitalize on Jamaica's... -
John Deere Component Works (A), Spanish Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based... -
SIPEF: Biological Assets at Fair Value under IAS 41
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines fair value accounting under lAS 41 for a European-listed agricultural firm. Students identify the firm's core operations, distinguishing... -
The Aquaculture Industry in the Philippines: Creating Social Values at Marina Gana Vida
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In February 2007, Jonah Nobleza started Marina Gana Vida ("MGV") in the Davao coastal area in the Philippines, which historically had been the home of... -
Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute... -
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... -
Amazon Buys Whole Foods, Spanish Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The June 2017 news that e-commerce giant Amazon was paying $13.7 billion for organic supermarket chain Whole Foods precipitated a broad sell-off in the...
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Sunkist Growers, Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details A new media strategy for lemon advertising involving the concentration of the entire budget in a single-print vehicle, is under consideration. -
Locally Laid Egg Company: No Time for Laying Around
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Locally Laid Egg Company is a family-owned company based out of Duluth, Minnesota. The company was established in 2012 as the first commercial grade... -
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... -
John Mackey and Whole Foods Market, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Traces the history of organic agriculture from its pre-industrial roots to the present day, and examines the growth of Whole Foods Market in the context... -
Syngenta and Thought for Food: A Food-Security Innovation Platform
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, the corporate affairs executive of the leading Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Syngenta) and founder of the next-generation... -
Yum! China
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View 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... -
Alrich Farms: Cash Flow Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 2016, the owners of a family farm near London, Ontario, Canada, wanted to evaluate the financial status of their business. After 30 years in... -
How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleA case study of the Brazilian beef industry. -
Indupalma (A1): The Initial Years, 1961-1977
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Indupalma was managed as a plantation since its creation in 1961. Labor conditions were grim, and labor unrest was at a peak when the general manager... -
Chateau d'Agel (A): From Concept to Deal
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Robin Budowski, a wine specialist and enthusiast, had dreamed about owning and running a vineyard for years, and on 28 July 2003 he was closer than ever...