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      • August 2022
      • Case

      Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise

      By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
      In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise. Maynard had...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investment; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Financial Reporting; Small Business; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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      McComb, Emily R., Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise." Harvard Business School Case 223-004, August 2022.
      • August 2022
      • Supplement

      Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise Financial Supplement

      By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
      Abstract: In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise....  View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investment; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Financial Reporting; Small Business; Food and Beverage Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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      McComb, Emily R., Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough’s Rise Financial Supplement." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 223-702, August 2022.
      • February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
      • Case

      Buddy Valastro: Cake Boss

      By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
      Buddy Valastro, celebrity baker and business owner, inherited his father’s bakery—Carlo’s Bake Shop of Hoboken, New Jersey—at the age of seventeen. He had willed the shop to survive and gone on to fame through his television show, “Cake Boss”—the name most people now...  View Details
      Keywords: Bakery; Entrepreneur; Scalability; Digital; Systems; Process Improvement; Team Effectiveness; Team Building; COVID-19 Pandemic; Food; Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Crisis Management; Change Management; Leadership; Creativity; Operations; Groups and Teams; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Buddy Valastro: Cake Boss." Harvard Business School Case 422-060, February 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
      • November 2018 (Revised May 2019)
      • Case

      Almarai Company: Milk and Modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

      By: Kristin Fabbe, Safwan Al-Amin, Esel Cekin and Natalie Kindred
      With SAR 14 billion ($3.7 billion) in 2017 revenues, Almarai was Saudi Arabia’s largest dairy producer, distributor, and marketer, with a large portfolio of branded dairy products, juices, bakery goods, and infant formula and a sales presence across the Gulf region,...  View Details
      Keywords: Dairy; Agriculture; Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia; Almarai; Schorderet; Food Security; Public Policy; Self Sufficiency; Gulf; GCC; Business And Government; Agribusiness; Marketing; Distribution; Change Management; Leading Change; Strategy; Government and Politics; Policy; Diversification; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Food; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
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      Fabbe, Kristin, Safwan Al-Amin, Esel Cekin, and Natalie Kindred. "Almarai Company: Milk and Modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia." Harvard Business School Case 719-020, November 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
      • June 2015
      • Case

      The Valuation and Financing of Lady M Confections

      By: Mihir A. Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
      This case explores the decision-making process that small, private businesses must undertake when considering an expansion and when selling equity to outside investors. In the process, students are asked to complete two exercises: a break-even analysis and a valuation...  View Details
      Keywords: Lady M; Bakery; Foodservice Industry; Breakeven Analysis; Restaurant Industry; Forecasting; Forecast; Financial Analysis; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Equity; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Finance; Food; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      Desai, Mihir A., and Elizabeth A. Meyer. "The Valuation and Financing of Lady M Confections." Harvard Business School Case 215-047, June 2015.
      • January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
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      Lagkagehuset: Building a Bakery Chain

      By: Krishna G. Palepu and Emer Moloney
      A Danish bakery chain that was acquired by a private equity firm in 2008, and has grown from 3 to 31 stores, plans to address reoccuring operational and organizational issues before growing further.  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Chain; Retail; Bakery; Operations; Retail Industry; Denmark
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      Palepu, Krishna G., and Emer Moloney. "Lagkagehuset: Building a Bakery Chain." Harvard Business School Case 115-002, January 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
      • October 2013 (Revised February 2019)
      • Teaching Note

      Red Hen Baking Company

      By: Richard Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Lisa Paige
      The case explores the decision to expand in a small business setting. In 2007, the Red Hen Baking Company (RHB) was deciding whether to move from its cramped and inefficient Duxbury, Vermont facility to a new facility in nearby Middlesex, Vermont. It had been in...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Capital; Risk Management; Expansion
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      Ruback, Richard, Royce Yudkoff, and Lisa Paige. "Red Hen Baking Company." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 214-043, October 2013. (Revised February 2019.)
      • May 2013
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      Launching Krispy Natural: Cracking the Product Management Code

      By: Frank V. Cespedes and Heather Beckham
      Pemberton Products is a U.S. market leader in the cookie and bakery snacks segment of the sweet snack market. Looking to expand into the salty snack market, the company acquires Krispy Inc., a maker of salty snack crackers located in the southeastern U.S. To compete...  View Details
      Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Competition; Organizational Culture; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Expansion; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Acquisition; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio; United States
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      Cespedes, Frank V., and Heather Beckham. "Launching Krispy Natural: Cracking the Product Management Code." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-574, May 2013.
      • January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
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      Grupo Bimbo: Growth and Social Responsibility

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
      Bimbo, headquartered in Mexico with 2008 sales of $7 billion, was one of the largest bakery companies in the world. Even as it had grown spectacularly in the last several decades, the company had earned a stellar reputation for its corporate social responsibility...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Reputation; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Grupo Bimbo: Growth and Social Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 509-025, January 2009. (Revised February 2009.)
      • April 1995 (Revised April 1995)
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      Pillsbury: Customer Driven Reengineering

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Pillsbury is transforming itself from an integrated producer of flour and bakery products to a value-added supplier of premium branded products. After initial successes applying activity-based costing to manufacturing operations, two senior executives decide to...  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Production; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Pillsbury: Customer Driven Reengineering." Harvard Business School Case 195-144, April 1995. (Revised April 1995.)
      • March 1992 (Revised December 1993)
      • Teaching Note

      Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, The Partner/Manager Program, Teaching Note

      By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Roger H. Hallowell
      Teaching Note for (9-687-063).  View Details
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      Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Roger H. Hallowell. "Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, The Partner/Manager Program, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 692-090, March 1992. (Revised December 1993.)
      • June 1987
      • Supplement

      Au Bon Pain: Interviews with Ron Shaich and Len Schlesinger, Video

      By: W. Earl Sasser, Christopher Hart and Lucy N. Lytle
      To be used with Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, the Partner/Manager Program.  View Details
      Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Human Resources; Management Systems; Selection and Staffing; Programs; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Sasser, W. Earl, Christopher Hart, and Lucy N. Lytle. "Au Bon Pain: Interviews with Ron Shaich and Len Schlesinger, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 887-548, June 1987.
      • March 1987 (Revised October 1993)
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      Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, The Partner/Manager Program

      By: W. Earl Sasser
      In recent years, Au Bon Pain (ABP), a chain of upscale French bakeries/sandwich cafes based in Boston, confronted a set of human resource problems endemic to the fast food industry (i.e., a labor shortage which made it difficult to attract and maintain quality crew...  View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Managerial Roles; Retention; Employees; Performance Improvement; Recruitment; Problems and Challenges; Compensation and Benefits; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Boston
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      Sasser, W. Earl. "Au Bon Pain: The French Bakery Cafe, The Partner/Manager Program." Harvard Business School Case 687-063, March 1987. (Revised October 1993.)
      • July 1980
      • Case

      Colonial Bakery Products Distribution Co.

      By: James I. Cash Jr.
      Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry; Distribution Industry
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      Cash, James I., Jr. "Colonial Bakery Products Distribution Co." Harvard Business School Case 181-009, July 1980.
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