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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
In California’s Coachella Valley, Sister Marsha Allen (MBA 1976) is spearheading a coalition of nonprofits and charitable organizations in an effort to build a tent city for the 20,000 migrant farmworkers and their children who come to the valley every year to View Details
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Agriculture
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Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity
Our Own Harvest Interviews with organizational scholars and practitioners offer insight on the state of diversity in tech and how we can advance equity and inclusion in the sector. Community Conversations Intimate virtual events for the...
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- Portrait Project
Yaw Agyenim-Boateng
life meant an abundant crop at harvest time and an occasional trip to the big city. But some government official took a chance on my father: He got a scholarship to attend secondary school. So, I consider myself privileged. Indeed, Peace...
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- 29 Jul 2021
- News
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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- 10 Apr 2013
- News
Tapped In
resource his company harvests from pine trees. But he can offer a brief history: resin-harvesting is a millenarian tradition, mentioned in the Bible; it was a foundational industry for colonial America; and resin is even why North...
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Caterpillar Tractor Co. - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Outfit, International Harvester Co. , 1931. Subjects range from a Caterpillar demonstration in Italy for Mussolini to men hauling enormous logs out of northwestern forests to Filipino workers plowing rice fields. The collection documents...
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- 21 Sep 2015
- News
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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- Portrait Project
Laila Kassis
harvested olives with my dad. My little black-stained hands hung onto the ledge, as I watched two monstrous stone wheels roll around and around, crushing a ton of olives and extracting their tangy oil. It was the end of a long day, during...
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- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
he became the CEO of Second Harvest Heartland. Zeaske’s experience mirrors those of alumni fellows who have benefited over the years from access to meaningful roles and close collaboration with senior leadership in the Leadership Fellows...
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Social Enterprise
- 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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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
can, under certain conditions, yield immediate post-break performance increases. We test our hypotheses using productivity data from 212 fruit harvesters collected over one harvesting season yielding nearly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
eight plants in a row, a new variety begins and each week a new ripe cluster of tomatoes is harvested. Research teams collect data throughout this process via sensors and measurements, such as the volume of tomatoes grown per plant per week, the shelf life of View Details
- 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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- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
to meet like-minded students, as well as a chance to connect over cases outside of the classroom and section. Since its start in 2020, students have explored cases like “Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun”; “JetBlue: Relevant...
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- 20 Jan 2011
- News
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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- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
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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- 29 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship
is still very much alive, where different business ideas are harvested from the whole workforce, incubated and grown under the supervision of very senior executives. Then if successful, these young businesses can be split out into their...
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Consumer Products / Retail
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
money supply than the visible money stock like bank notes or specie. 7 The account books of small-time storekeepers show how common credit purchases were, particularly in agricultural or frontier regions. Farmers, for example, were seldom able to settle their debts...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
materials," says Shelman.) Most processors try to pay farmers as little as possible for their tomatoes. They enter contracts with farmers early in the year, but in years with large harvests they might find reasons to discount that price...
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