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- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
prevent hunters from moving into the wildlife reserve. The fence, however, also prevented traditional east-west migration of animals across the region. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the farms within the Sabi Sand Game reserve converted... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
answer it, they looked not to high-tech modern prizes but to a comparatively unglamorous series of awards sponsored by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) back in the nineteenth century. For decades, explains Lerner, the RASE offered dozens of awards for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
314-019 Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
there is rapid and massive urbanization everywhere as people leave farms for cities in search of opportunity. Half of the world is urban today, and the urban population will double in the next three decades. Second, this migration is... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
regulatory capture cannot be used the same on agencies," contends Shon R. Hiatt, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. "There are a lot of checks and balances and firewalls in place." So how are these agencies influenced? Hiatt, who grew up... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
Grobo had an unusual business model: it did not own land nor farm machinery. Instead, it created a network of partnered producers and suppliers. In other words, it outsourced as much as possible. CEO Gustavo Grobocopatel believed that Los... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
of American occupation (1898-1918), we find that the implementation of these reforms was very slow. As a consequence, tenure insecurity increased over this period, and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
there are people who are literally trying to solve global issues like poverty and water scarcity, but social entrepreneurship also includes people trying to start a community garden." This is literally the case for Bethel Erickson-Bruce, who founded an urban View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
farms of Europe and the US. It helps explain laws to protect small business from the ravages of the A&Ps and Walmarts. It increasingly drives politics as well as government policy. It is especially attractive at times of low growth... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
Elephant Live Happily Ever After?" focuses on acquisitions of three social icons: Tom's of Maine acquired by Colgate, Stonyfield Farm Yogurt purchased by Danone, and Ben & Jerry's bought by Unilever. (Similar deals include... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
beginning his business, people were pouring into the cities as urbanization accelerated. The family farm and even the family plot, was disappearing. For the first time, women were going into the paid workforce in large numbers, as they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
areas. Nestlé, for example, redesigned its coffee procurement processes, working intensively with small farmers in impoverished areas who were trapped in a cycle of low productivity, poor quality, and environmental degradation. Nestlé provided advice on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify two primary causes for the slow progress of reform: first, the high cost of implementing these programs was a major factor in reducing take-up. On the other hand,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407012 Sarah Talley and Frey Farms Produce: Negotiating with Wal-Mart Harvard Business School Case 907-003 More information and purchase:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
the sustainable sourcing pillar, with its work on farming standards and supplier code as well as its support for local sourcing programs in the growing African market. HEINEKEN's management finds that marketing its achievements in these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded fresh/chilled dairy products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman