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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line
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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... -
Banana War Maneuvers
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHow Dole beat Chiquita by working around a restrictive EU trade policy instead of struggling against it. -
Accountants Will Save the World
Global Business Digital ArticleFactor social benefits and the use of resources into a company's value. -
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... -
The CEO of Cabot Creamery on Beating Sustainability Benchmarks
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleBecoming a B Corp was affirmation of Cabot’s existing mission. -
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... -
The CEO of NatureSweet on What Happens When You Champion Workers
Motivating people Magazine ArticleThere’s no conflict between doing the right thing and being profitable. -
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. -
How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa
Entrepreneurship 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
No Company Can Solve a Massive Global Problem on Its Own
Public-private partnerships Digital ArticleBut when organizations work together, change can happen. -
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. -
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...
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Urbanizing China
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 2012, China attained a historic development milestone with more Chinese citizens living in cities than in the countryside. China's rapid urbanization,... -
The Exxon Valdez Revisited: The Untold Story (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Being in charge of cleaning up the March 24, 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill accident, meant that Otto Harrison, the general manager of Exxon International... -
Harris Seafoods, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Presents data relevant to a major capital expenditure--the construction of a shrimp plant. Designed to test student's ability to identify relevant cash... -
Woolf Farming and Processing
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought... -
The Aquaculture Industry in the Philippines: Creating Social Values at Marina Gana Vida
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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... -
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details At the conclusion of a small-scale pilot survey, management must decide whether to invest in a larger survey or terminate the project. The objective of... -
The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Examines the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. Over the previous half... -
ITC e-Choupal (B): Revolutionizing Agriculture by Propagating Technology
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1297. e-Choupal, an initiative of ITC Ltd. launched in 2000, endeavours to place computers with internet connectivity in villages... -
Yara International
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case examines world fertilizer markets from the perspective of a large Norwegian producer. The global fertilizer industry is critical to food production... -
Canopy Growth Corporation: Accounting Problems in the Cannabis Industry?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View 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... -
Sugar Daddy: Quotas and the U.S. Government
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Since 1981, the U.S. federal government has operated a price support program to help sugar beet and sugar cane producers and processors. This complex... -
Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details For the Novartis leaders, the decision to "use stretch budgets again next year" highlights the tension between candor and empowerment and command-and-control,... -
Monsanto
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant must guide his global agribusiness technology company into an uncertain future where food security, food safety, sustainability,... -
Grupo Beta San Miguel (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The World Trade Organization and NAFTA are reviewing the sweetener system and governmental sugar programs and their impact on world trade. What position... -
Archer Daniels Midland: Direction and Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Sets out the strategy and competitive competencies of one of the leading grain trade and processing companies in the world. An overview of the company's... -
Nestle: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Corporate Head of Agriculture Hans Jöhr's mind raced in anticipation of the executive board meeting that afternoon. Jöhr recognized the meeting as a key... -
FarmFriend
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The purpose of this case is to look at FarmFriend's product market fit. The case examines how the FarmFriend founding team evaluated various business... -
National Cranberry Cooperative
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Requires an analysis of both the process flows and the production control system used in a cranberry receiving plant. A rewritten version of an earlier... -
Olam's Corporate Strategy: Becoming the Most Differentiated and Valuable Global Agribusiness
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 1989, Olam International Limited began as a small trader of cashew nuts. Over the years, it grew into a multi-country, multi-product integrated... -
JBS Swift & Co.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brazilian meat packer JBS surprised many in the U.S. beef industry when it acquired Swift & Co.--a company more than five times its size--in 2007, then...
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Urbanizing China
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 2012, China attained a historic development milestone with more Chinese citizens living in cities than in the countryside. China's rapid urbanization,... -
The Exxon Valdez Revisited: The Untold Story (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Being in charge of cleaning up the March 24, 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill accident, meant that Otto Harrison, the general manager of Exxon International... -
Harris Seafoods, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Presents data relevant to a major capital expenditure--the construction of a shrimp plant. Designed to test student's ability to identify relevant cash... -
Woolf Farming and Processing
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought... -
The Aquaculture Industry in the Philippines: Creating Social Values at Marina Gana Vida
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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... -
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details At the conclusion of a small-scale pilot survey, management must decide whether to invest in a larger survey or terminate the project. The objective of... -
The Octopus and the Generals: The United Fruit Company in Guatemala
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Examines the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. Over the previous half... -
ITC e-Choupal (B): Revolutionizing Agriculture by Propagating Technology
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1297. e-Choupal, an initiative of ITC Ltd. launched in 2000, endeavours to place computers with internet connectivity in villages... -
Yara International
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case examines world fertilizer markets from the perspective of a large Norwegian producer. The global fertilizer industry is critical to food production... -
Canopy Growth Corporation: Accounting Problems in the Cannabis Industry?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View 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...