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Bridgette Slater

adventure. Also, over the course of my years in consulting, I developed a concrete vision of the work I wanted to pursue – something along the lines of ethical sourcing of agricultural products, namely... View Details

September 2007 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets

By: Tarun Khanna, Santiago Mingo and Jonathan West

In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of three very integrated worldwide agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Operations; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; White Plains; Brazil

September 2023
Case

FoodCloud: Tackling Food Insecurity and Climate Change in One Bite

By: Brian Trelstad and Emer Moloney

In 2013, Aoibheann O’Brien and Iseult Ward founded FoodCloud, a non-profit social enterprise that aimed to address food waste and food insecurity issues. Through its technology platform, Foodiverse, FoodCloud connected surplus food from retailers with community groups... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Green Technology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Republic of Ireland; Europe

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

May 2016
Case

Seaside Organics

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Alisa Zalosh

This case follows Sara Norton, a soccer player-turned-serial entrepreneur, as she transforms Seaside Organics from a fledgling startup into an $89 million company. Informed by the successes and failures of her first organics venture, WellBar, Norton tries to balance... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Conflict and Resolution; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

HBS MBA 2010 Director of Development, Merit SI Pictured here with Michael Skelly, HBS MBA 1991 Former Principal, Clean Line Energy Partners “I’m committed to slowing climate change by paving the way for a cleaner energy future. After HBS I joined Michael Skelly at... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

November 2015 (Revised November 2016)
Case

Huaxia: Building a U.S.-Style Dairy in China

By: Tarun Khanna, Nancy Hua Dai and Juan Ma

In 2015, Charles Shao, chairman of Huaxia, considered the alternatives to ensure sustainable growth of Huaxia and rebuild the overall health of China's dairy industry. He came to China in 2004 and set up Huaxia dairy farm with the goal to build a world-class dairy farm... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emerging Markets; Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China

11 Apr 2023
Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

headquarters BTG Bioliquids company profile BTG Bioliquids has developed a fast pyrolysis technology that enables its customers to convert biomass residues into fast pyrolysis bio-oil (FPBO), which has lower carbon intensity than... View Details

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

development person. McCaffrey: Because the exchange paradigms support the traditional marketing notion of selling, we argued very strongly in our working paper that we need a new paradigm to support this extended notion of social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

December 2011 (Revised October 2015)
Case

K&N's: Health and Happiness for Pakistan

By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin and Mary Shelman

Keywords: Family Business; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Pakistan

Web

Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

vulnerable areas more resilient and decide when to rebuild, restrict development, or retreat Economic development and innovative technologies have contributed to climate change—and are also essential to address it. Government policies can... View Details

08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

to discuss the support he would need. When class started, the professor announced that the ed rep would be starting the class discussion. I was stunned! It took me a moment to realize that I was being cold called. I was asked a question regarding a country’s View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

dedicate my time and energies toward. This year you’ll be co-president of the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. What motivated you to pursue this role? What goals do you have as co-president? I think to the broader HBS population, careers today in food and View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Introduction to Power and Influence for Positive Impact ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Power and Influence for Positive Impact $1,850 Next 6-week session starts August 20 Enroll Now Understand how power really... View Details

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2014
Case

BGI: Data-driven Research

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training as a plant breeder and his early career work as a biochemist to improving... View Details