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- 20 Jan 2011
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Oil Spill Solution
thinks about “what Dr. Nitin Nohria taught me 20 years ago in OB” about the importance of human interactions. Recently, he attended a rally in Grand Isle, Louisiana, that focused on the health problems shrimp harvesters are experiencing...
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- 29 Jul 2021
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Support System
their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. Through a family line of...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Check Is in the Mail
Credit due: Trade cards ca. 1870 (top) showed that everything from sewing machines to harvesters could be purchased on installment; the dangers of extending credit instead of demanding cash (bottom); Baker Library Historical Collections...
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- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
having spent the first 16 years of his life alongside his family, moving from Mexico up and down the West Coast of the United States to harvest peaches, olives, cherries, and plums. He managed to graduate from high school in California in...
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- 21 Sep 2015
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A Sustainable Success Story
Crown Maple, the flourishing maple sugaring business the Turners started in 2010 has helped them achieve both goals. Known for its distinctively rich flavor—achieved, in part, through sustainable, certified-organic harvesting practices...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
was the most important event in our history,” says Kwiker of the club’s first visit by an HBS Dean in twenty years. As for other monthly events, club members participate in educational luncheons, trips to the symphony, and, most recently, the Northwest View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Fıelds of Gold
profits are reinvested in the country’s agriculture sector? In the field Saffron crocuses are harvested by hand during a 21-day window in October and November. They are picked only in the morning, before the blooms open, to prevent damage...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and...
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- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
of their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. It is a problem Akuete and...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
eggs have a short shelf life. Norway’s salmon farms meet some 40 percent of global demand for the species, for instance, but can harvest eggs only during the few months of spawning season. How do you boost production the rest of the year?...
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- 11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
Bloom: In Mali with local dignitaries at rice harvest in newly irrigated fields. Photo courtesy Jonathan Bloom It seems poetic justice when someone named Bloom is involved in an exciting experiment that’s blossomed and bearing fruit....
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters of...
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- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
of the same exfoliating and renewing properties as glycolic acid, without its harsh side effects. (The substance is harvested without damaging the newborn salmon.) On a quick visit to celebrate her 25th Reunion, Pao took part in a panel...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
was the most important event in our history,” says Kwiker of the club’s first visit by an HBS Dean in twenty years. As for other monthly events, club members participate in educational luncheons, trips to the symphony, and, most recently, the Northwest View Details
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Elena N. Berg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
tagging and immunizing all calves. In the decade that he has run the ranch, Davis has increased production fourfold. He uses a method of “rotational cell grazing” that takes advantage of cattle's natural ability to harvest the land by...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from the women in the farming...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers
1984) The Nature Conservancy Worldwide locations A charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive Kate...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Q&A: Andrew Kendall
issues, and basic survival needs. You need to be able to show people how preserving the environment can help them economically. For example, we created a buffer zone around a national forest by establishing an "extractive reserve." We started a business using local...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation
whom are women, who average under a dollar a day per capita income. Since cassava spoils within three days of harvesting, it is traditionally used in small-scale family cooking. Roughly 40 percent of the annual harvest is lost due to...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
harvest data with one another to help find the best performing seeds—which represented their largest variable expense. The idea quickly evolved into developing a completely independent, farmer-driven information source identifying top...
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Sasha Issenberg