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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Chaku Foods Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021), CEO and Founder Concept: A snack-food company in Okrah’s native Ghana that is building farming supply chain infrastructure for other consumer... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
handle the rockier, less sandy soils of Wisconsin—yet has to fit under the 8-foot-high shade cloth that ginseng depends on. “We’ve started using a lot more technology to reduce the dependence on farm labor,” Hsu says, “but you can only do... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive flashlight batteries are the primary sources of light. CAN FARMING SAVE THE PLANET?Don Wiviott (MBA 1984) is cofounder and partner of Sustainable View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
Club of Connecticut Editor's note: You can check out Doering's Two Roads Brewing at tworoadsbrewing.com. The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria Re: Forward-thinking farming It always amazes me what people can... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
food-education spaces and food-business incubators, Duda has combined his MBA with the lessons he learned in restaurants. He’s also actively involved with the resurrection of the Redland Farm Life School, near Miami. When it opened in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
farm in Dorset, England. As he worked the property, Heeks realized that principles of sustainable development and sound organic farming could be applied to the successful management of an organization,... View Details
Fowler McCormick
Under McCormick’s leadership, International Harvester became the American industry’s leading farm equipment producer, doubling sales by 1947. He was also known for creating and maintaining stable relationships with employees. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 28 Apr 2008
- HBS Case
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
perspective. There are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In "Sarah Talley and Frey View Details
Herbert V. Kohler
Kohler built the second largest plumbing supply company in the United States. He is also responsible for widening the company’s scope of production. Today, Kohler makes electric generators for standby power systems, yachts, motor homes, lawn and garden tractors,... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
have been going through major changes, both in the way that they actually farm their land, but then how they manage their businesses and run their businesses more like entrepreneurs, as opposed to the traditional ways that they've run... View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- Portrait Project
Molly Jacobson
wait to begin a career with clean clothes, central heating, and easy bathroom access. Compared to many other farm workers, I was blessed to expect this. I think often of this memory as I pursue success in business. In the corporate world,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
the world. (photo courtesy of Rich Wilson) Good morning, from the Pacific Ocean! #VG2016 #sitesALIVE Cited “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need... View Details
Margaret F. Rudkin
employed mostly women during a period when women in the work place were not commonplace. Rudkin orchestrated the sale pf Pepperidge Farm to Campbell Soup Company in 1960. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Charles S. Davis
diversified the company’s product line to include household appliances, farm equipment and military equipment. From 1928 to 1950, Davis grew the assets of Borg-Warner from $19 million to $161 million. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
of its produce and strides in sustainability. Over the course of her interview, she discusses Danper’s role towards advancing modern farming techniques which have allowed Peru to become increasingly competitive in the global agricultural... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
Above: photo by John Loomis About 80 percent of Frans Kok’s (MBA 1972) cut-your-own customers make the trek to the Middleburg Christmas Tree Farm in Philomont, Virginia, during the two weeks after Thanksgiving. After bumping down the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint