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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
are currently used by HR. Fuller: There’s an awful lot that has to get arbitrated here in terms of the way work is thought about, and how people get evaluated and developed. Over the 120 years or so of significant organized capital, most people were owner-operators.... View Details
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Eduardo Avalos
would run through the grape fields, ride the tractors, and eat strawberries from the fields in which they were grown. Having grown up in a city, I developed a fond love for the countryside, for the beauty of farming communities, and for... View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Henry worked for his father, Abraham, a cattle dealer. When he came to America, he started as an itinerant peddler of household and farm goods around Mobile, Alabama. [1] He then settled in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, where he opened a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
installment plan available to the average person. Between 1840 and 1890, four products—furniture, pianos, farm equipment, and sewing machines—spread credit financing through the world. In their different ways, these particular products... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction
shameful, and credit financed only “productive” purchases like homes or farm machinery. But nostalgia seldom makes good history. Writers mourned this lost golden age during the Roaring Twenties, the rise of the credit card in the 1960s,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
parents' wheat farm and cattle ranch. Hughes's love of books and learning, she says, comes from her mother, who was trained as a teacher, while her down-to-earth values and passion to excel - not to mention her fluency in Norwegian -... View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
Gona: Great Farm Key concepts: Agricultural Development, Strategy, Nigeria Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution Tesla in 2024: Holding on to the EV Lead? What IKEA Do We Want? Key concepts: Business models, Customer relationship... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
piggyback on top of what we have. We don’t have to build around each specific niche-y crop; we can just move around farms and go up and down rows really well,” Andersen explains. That task alone is stunningly complex, and it clarifies why... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
novel technologies and innovating business models that can reshape how we produce and consume energy. Doug's role prior to HBS was a Project Engineer at ExxonMobil. Jessie Pease (MBA 2024, Section K), Summer Internship: Digital Agriculture MBA Intern, BrightFarms... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Founders: How is Your Company Accelerating Climate Solutions? Eric Adamson MBA 2013 | Co-Founder & CEO, Tortuga AgTech “At Tortuga AgTech, we’re building AI-driven robotics to enable View Details
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
on a number of products and services including health insurance plans, generic versus brand drug choices, copays and medication use, mobile phone plan choices, and even better methods for farming seaweed. “If you’re thinking about using... View Details
John C. Mulliken
Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.
John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Enterprise Track Winner Urban aquaponics farm that will be a self-sustaining symbiotic fish and produce system. Barakat Bundle Karima Ladhani Mitul Daiyan Shane Robinson Jyoti Ramakrishna Nayab Ahmad Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up A... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
stunning—completely untouched,” says Turner. They named the property Madava Farms after daughters Maddie and Ava. “There were no roads, no houses; just forest, trout streams, and wildlife,” he notes. “We’d walk in the woods and think how... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
occur at the farm level. The remaining emissions come from operations, logistics, packaging and retail and consumer use. On Scope 1 and 2 emissions, Arla explained how they plan to secure 100% green electricity, maximize operational and... View Details