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- 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 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
more than $1 million in grants to renovate the aging West Wind dormitory, provide technical assistance to local farmers, and establish a commercial kitchen that local growers can use to make value-added agricultural products; turned the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- News
Tapped In
ARIAS-KING: Planting pine trees to promote social change. Photo Courtesy of Fredo Arias-King Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996) President of Texas's T&R Chemicals, is aware that—outside of his industry—people aren't necessarily cognizant of the historical and cultural... View Details
- 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
- 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 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
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both investors and society as a whole to come out as winners. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
RUSSO Had Russo’s parents prevailed, she never would have started the business. The youngest of four children, Russo was born in Castiglione, Sicily, a picturesque agricultural village she describes as devoid of economic opportunity. When... 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
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
that has been disrupted by the earthquakes, including agriculture and animal husbandry—to remain in place and not have to settle elsewhere. “This allows them to modernize their lifestyle but still allows them to live with their animals... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
children attending school by 25 percent, and boosted agricultural output by two to four times, depending on the area. Now we’re talking to the UN, the World Bank, USAID, and others about scaling the village program to a countrywide level.... 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