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Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students September 2025 Article Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in... View Details

13 Jan 2003
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The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

unconscious mind to identify new product opportunities. Using metaphor-elicitation techniques, firms providing farming supplies, home appliances, office systems, and beauty care have identified important unmet needs. R&D departments... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

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South Asia - Global

participants, including alumni and industry leaders. Archive See more News & Highlights New Research on the Region September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

addressing food security with satellite data, to leading NASA Acres, which focuses on U.S. agriculture. She explains how AI and satellite technology are changing the agricultural sector, offering solutions ranging from crop yield prediction to regenerative View Details

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Power to the People

By: Eric D. Werker

Every nongovernmental organization has a mission statement. For example, CARE, one of the world's largest and best-funded NGOs, explains its mission as serving "individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Food; Service Operations; Inflation and Deflation; Experience and Expertise; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Knowledge; Poverty; Agribusiness; Diversity; Non-Governmental Organizations; Innovation and Invention; India

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Rafaella Mazza

that, I thought of environmental engineering, but upon learning that environmental engineers design sewage while agronomic engineers get to drive tractors, I chose that instead. What is your favorite childhood memory? Waking up early at my grandpa’s small View Details

03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

for young girls, one of them is here today who's now grown in law school and starting work in New York City, [INAUDIBLE]. But I opened that school for girls who were like me. I grew up in rural Mississippi, no running water, no electricity. My grandmother and I on what... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

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Soltan Bryce

school, then returned to the farm for chores and homework.” Although the experience was rewarding, it also revealed a darker side. “I had a front row seat to the difficulties of sustaining a small family View Details

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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

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

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Research September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady... View Details

12 Oct 1999
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It Came in the First Ships: Capitalism in America

deprivation confronting New World opportunity. Demand, which had been pent up for centuries, suddenly encountered plentiful supply. The settlers' hunger for more and more territory thrust them relentlessly westward, where they could establish View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

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Nairobi Office Singapore Office Tel Aviv Office New Research September 2025 Article Journal of Development Economics Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in... View Details

16 Jan 2013
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The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

group incentives to encourage honesty, doling out a barrel of corn to each hand with the caveat that if anything was stolen from the farm and no one turned in the thief, double the value of that corn would be deducted from each of their... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

of more than 160,000 members and about 1,000 volunteers ready to welcome the Irish diaspora, estimated at 70 million people worldwide. “A volunteer brings you down and shows you the house your people were born in. They show you the land they View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

during World War I, in expectation of continued high prices, many farms were overwhelmed by the postwar collapse of the agricultural commodities market. Yet foreclosures of residential properties also increased in 1926, rising steadily... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

part of the digestive process of ruminant animals such as cattle—produces methane, a gas about 20 times more damaging that CO 2 in terms of its global warming potential. [29] Modern farming techniques emit CO2 by releasing some of the... View Details

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Blog - Business & Environment

Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture Ore Agunbiade, Aarushi Jain & Tim Kluska 03 Apr 2025 | Courses & Curriculum IFC India 2025: Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero MBA... View Details

17 Dec 2020
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Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

around the world, too, and I would love to collaborate with other clubs.” Virtual Case Discussion Dissects Launch of The Farm at Comcast More than 30 alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta joined Professor Linda Hill, on November 23 for an... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Aug 2020
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From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

up on a 1,200-acre dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania, with ponds and pastures to explore and frogs and turtles to play with, Roosevelt learned early on that “outdoors is the most interesting place to be.” At Harvard College, he majored in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

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