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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work, they still rely on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the systemic... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because Schultz, like a latter-day Johnny... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm, which consists of a residential... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will depend on fish farming. But... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay with 2004 Kentucky Derby champion Smarty Jones. To leave Lexington’s Bluegrass Airport, exit on Man O’ War Boulevard, named for one of history’s greatest Thoroughbred champions. It’s a little like taking the new Ted Williams Tunnel from Boston’s Logan Airport —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
A FEEL-GOOD HIGH: Founder Sarah Endline with sweetriot’s tiny treats. As a girl in Auburn, Michigan, a small town two hours north of Detroit, Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) grew up with a clear understanding of the link between crops in the field and food on the table. It’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Image by Jezper by Regina E. Herzlinger Health care now represents some 18 percent of the American economy. With its costs continuing to rise, and with tens of millions uninsured, we in the United States are understandably preoccupied with our own system and... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
support his family. He heard about the I Create program and signed up. Having noticed a growth in agriculture in the region, Samad was intent on finding his niche in the industry. After conducting market research and consulting with a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists howled against this so-called... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
post–Civil War era to commission-based canvassers hired and trained by manufacturers to sell agricultural products and books by Mark Twain and Ulysses S. Grant, for instance. “Drummers,” who acted as the middlemen between manufacturers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
we provide free antiretroviral drugs to our 3,000 HIV- positive employees. In South America, we have multimillion-dollar projects to improve goat and cattle breeds, boost honey production, and diversify agricultural output. We work hard... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- News
Building a Resilient, Sustainable, and Nourishing Global Food System
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
Goldberg, the School's George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, suggest that traditional boundaries between businesses will continue to dissolve, resulting in "the largest industry in the world: the life-sciences... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
conference focused on Nigeria’s response to COVID-19, Ndidi Nwuneli (MBA 1999), cofounder of AACE Foods and Sahel Consulting, noted that the country’s agricultural ecosystem was fragile even before the pandemic. “We already have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
themselves, letting them fail so they can learn how to succeed. Territorial Tools for Agro-Industry Development: A Sourcebook edited by Martin Webber (MBA 1980) and Eva Galvez Nogales (Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN) This... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
use of agricultural chemicals in this country...so that our supply of food will be reduced to [Iron Curtain] parity.” Readers and reporters jumped into the fray. Some journalists lined up with the chemical industry. A writer in the... View Details