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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
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
costs fell by more than 60 percent. We've seen change of a similar magnitude in civilian industries as well. Less than 2 percent of the US population/workforce now works on the land, but agricultural production has only continued to... View Details
- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Vegpro Group: Growing in Harmony (TN)
By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Teaching Note for [508-001]. View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
[climate change] is a massive megatrend,” said Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), Morgan Stanley’s chief sustainability officer and chief marketing officer, during a panel discussion. “It’s a fundamental material risk to earnings and portfolios.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming, it’s amazing how we could... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
and electric vehicles, and ride sharing. They also spoke in favor of smart agriculture and plant-heavy diets. Beef consumption is especially challenging, they said, as demand for protein to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
Margaret L. Rodriguez, Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing. Food safety problems can be quite costly. An E. coli outbreak in Germany in 2011 caused $1.3 billion in losses to the global agricultural industry. Yet, a... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
faculty chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, Grace Chao (Section A) organized the panel. Our three alumni discussed their pioneering activities: Steve Kahn (Section A) is the co-founder and executive chairman of NewLeaf Symbiotics, an View Details
- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
climate innovation. The final keynote was an energetic conversation that explored the transformative potential of technology in scaling climate solutions for a sustainable future. “The Climate Symposium is not only an opportunity to learn... View Details
- 1996
- Chapter
Shark Harvesting and Resource Conservation
By: K. A. Wade-Benzoni, A. E. Tenbrunsel and M. H. Bazerman
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an industrial society? I don't think it will happen. The productivity... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 09 Apr 2021
- News
Building a Resilient, Sustainable, and Nourishing Global Food System
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
headaches. Part of the problem, Kozachenok says, is the field’s relative youth: “Commercial fish farming only started in the 1980s. It hasn’t had time to mature into a solid, sustainable industry.” By increasing supply consistency,... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
company so dedicated to reinventing agriculture to be more sustainable and less polluting use planet-friendly packaging? It wasn’t an oversight. As founder Viraj Puri recalls, when the company was starting... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
source: the authors. Sustainability Throughout the tour, the Van den Ende brothers touched upon multiple aspects of sustainable agriculture that have been integrated into their... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU Common View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
like education, health care, infrastructure, and public safety. You can call it causation or correlation, says Bauerly; it doesn’t really matter to him. He calls it smart investing in the place he calls home. The “Star of the North” has long been known for its View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon