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Herbert V. Kohler
Kohler built the second largest plumbing supply company in the United States. He is also responsible for widening the company’s scope of production. Today, Kohler makes electric generators for standby power systems, yachts, motor homes, lawn and garden tractors,... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Franklin P. Perdue
Under Perdue’s total-control leadership style, Perdue Farms grew from a small Maryland chicken farm into the United States’ third largest chicken producer with sales of almost $1 billion in the late 1980s.... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
have been going through major changes, both in the way that they actually farm their land, but then how they manage their businesses and run their businesses more like entrepreneurs, as opposed to the traditional ways that they've run... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
Above: photo by John Loomis About 80 percent of Frans Kok’s (MBA 1972) cut-your-own customers make the trek to the Middleburg Christmas Tree Farm in Philomont, Virginia, during the two weeks after Thanksgiving. After bumping down the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
Margaret F. Rudkin
employed mostly women during a period when women in the work place were not commonplace. Rudkin orchestrated the sale pf Pepperidge Farm to Campbell Soup Company in 1960. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Charles S. Davis
diversified the company’s product line to include household appliances, farm equipment and military equipment. From 1928 to 1950, Davis grew the assets of Borg-Warner from $19 million to $161 million. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 12 May 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
food-education spaces and food-business incubators, Duda has combined his MBA with the lessons he learned in restaurants. He’s also actively involved with the resurrection of the Redland Farm Life School, near Miami. When it opened in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
farm in Dorset, England. As he worked the property, Heeks realized that principles of sustainable development and sound organic farming could be applied to the successful management of an organization,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
At the other end of the supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
Peter B. Lewis
Lewis took the helm of his father’s small insurance business in the mid sixties when it was the 48th largest insurer in the nation. Over the course of the next two decades, Lewis built Progressive into one of the leading insurers in the nation – on par with State View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but... View Details
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Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait... View Details
William C. Norris
An electrical engineer by trade, Norris pioneered Control Data Corporation (CDC) into a leading mainframe computer maker, giving IBM heavy competition during the 1970s and 1980s. Norris was also a great philanthropist, building CDC factories in depressed neighborhoods... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details
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Eryn Schultz
study group, because it’s important to me to master the material. What might people find surprising about you? I lived on a farm after college. In context, because of how much I talk about agriculture and food, maybe that’s not so... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
Russell Simmons
overall popularity. He signed such noted artists as LL Cool J, Run-DMC, and Public Enemy. Simmons parlayed his success in music to films and other business enterprises including a new line of clothing under the Phat Farm label. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media