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• Case | HBS Case Collection | 2013 (Revised from original 2013 version)

  Royal DSM: Fighting Hidden Hunger

  Rebecca Henderson, Noah Fisher and Mary Shelman

  In 2007 Royal DSM, a leading life science and materials company, entered a partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) to combat hidden hunger around the world by providing micronutrient solutions. The case investigates the unexpectedly large impact the partnership had on DSM and on the global nutrition discussion, and discusses the benefits and challenges of scaling up the Nutrition Improvement Program—a key component of DSM's human nutrition and health division—beyond the WFP partnership, despite the need to build significant additional capabilities and its somewhat lower margins.

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  Henderson, Rebecca, Noah Fisher, and Mary Shelman. "Royal DSM: Fighting Hidden Hunger." Harvard Business School Case 313-085, May 2013. (Revised from original January 2013 version.)

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• Technical Note | HBS Case Collection | 2013 (Revised from original 2013 version)

  Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage

  Rebecca M. Henderson

  This note focuses on organizational "competencies" or "capabilities" as a potential source of sustained competitive advantage. Research in this area hypothesizes that some firms outperform their competition because they can do things that their rivals cannot.

  Citation:

  Henderson, Rebecca M. "Relational Contracts and the Roots of Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Technical Note 313-105, April 2013. (Revised from original January 2013 version.)

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | 2013 (Revised from original 2013 version)

  OrganJet and GuardianWings

  Julie Battilana and James Weber

  Citation:

  Battilana, Julie, and James Weber. "OrganJet and GuardianWings." Harvard Business School Case 413-068, April 2013. (Revised from original February 2013 version.)

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