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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
- 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
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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) knows how hard life can be for migrant farm workers. He went from picking fruit with this family as a youth to creating a way for migrant farm workers to further their education.... 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
Otto H. Falk
As head of Allis-Chalmers, Falk introduced a product line of earth-moving and other heavy machinery, including tractors, which used the internal combustion engine. Falk was hugely successful in leading Allis-Chalmers into the competitive market for View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 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
George J. Mecherle
Leaving the family farm in 1918 to tend to his ailing spouse, Mecherle joined an automobile insurance company and quickly discovered that farmers were charged the same auto insurance rates as non-farmers even though they were consistently... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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
- 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
- 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
Franklin P. Perdue
Under Perdue’s total-control leadership style, Perdue Farms grew from a small Maryland chicken farm into the United States’ third largest chicken producer with sales of almost $1 billion in the late 1980s.... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
Peter B. Lewis
Lewis took the helm of his father’s small insurance business in the mid sixties when it was the 48th largest insurer in the nation. Over the course of the next two decades, Lewis built Progressive into one of the leading insurers in the nation – on par with State View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but... View Details
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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