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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- April 2020
- Supplement
Luvo (B)
By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
This case, a follow on to HBS No. 517-049 "Luvo," provides a brief look at changes that have occurred at Luvo, now called Performance Kitchen, since the timing of the first case (mid-2016). Set in January 2020, “Luvo (B)” touches on developments such as the company's... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Nutrition; Food; Strategy; Product Positioning; Product Marketing; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Canada
Alvarez, José B., and Natalie Kindred. "Luvo (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 520-101, April 2020.
- 01 Oct 1971
- Conference Presentation
La Modernizacion de la Produccion y los Ajustes en el Sistema de Mercadea: El Caso de la Industria Arrocera Nicaraguense
By: James E. Austin
- 10 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands
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
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
common theme and we were able to detect some patterns. There basically is an infinite combination of five core strategies being used across a spectrum of impact to make positive change. The strategies include finance for social purpose, capacity building, View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
D), Summer Internship: Strategy and Marketing MBA Intern at Agriculture Capital Agriculture Capital is an investment advisor that invests in farmland and food processing assets to build consumer-driven,... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that... View Details
- Web
Industrial Life Photograph Collection | Baker Library
companies. The images include men and women at work, production methods, research laboratories, factory exteriors, offices, completed products, and manufactured equipment, such as agricultural and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
perspective. “I’d never actually heard a product speak,” he recalls. “It was like listening to a can of Coca-Cola explain how it would like to be marketed.” That initial encounter inspired Deighton to write “Marketing James Patterson,” a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
FLOREZ: Back to his roots. Before term limits force him out of office, California State Senate majority leader Dean Florez (MBA ’93) has one final bill he wants to get through the legislature: extending overtime benefits to hundreds of thousands of California... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- News
Pitching to Win
the five grand-prize winners. Goble is co-founder of Karivez Bio, a platform for transforming chronic disease treatment through improved drug delivery. Okrah is founder and CEO of Chaku Foods, a fast-moving consumer goods company based in Ghana, West Africa, that uses... View Details
- July 2001
- Supplement
Delamere Vineyard
Richard Richardson, owner and manager of Delamere Vineyard in Piper's River, Tasmania, Australia, tours his vineyard and explains the process of making wine. He also describes the feelings of satisfaction and accomplishment that come from producing a fine product. View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Production; Satisfaction; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Australia
West, Jonathan, and Christian G. Kasper. "Delamere Vineyard." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 602-801, July 2001.
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
and what we're now doing is to try to reuse and rethink how that land should be used to both create great products for global consumers, but more importantly to make sure that the environment is protected. “A big part of what has made New... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
countries with the highest potential to increase the world’s agricultural production.” Roughly 4,000 visitors walk through Colombia’s pavilion each day, experiencing high-tech simulations of its five different climate zones. In addition... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
garnering revenues of $4.15 billion in 2012 with products like Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. But there lies the potential rub. "Success is a powerful thing," said Cook, who now serves as chairman of Intuit's Executive... View Details
- December 2014 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Mary Shelman
Privately held Simplot has developed a new genetically engineered potato that substantially reduces waste and does not turn brown after cutting. Unlike other GMOs, it does not contain foreign genes. The case describes the company's commercialization plans in light of... View Details
Keywords: GMO; Sustainability; Agribusiness; Biotechnology; Food And Environment; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Product Positioning; Genetics; Value Creation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
Alvarez, Jose B., and Mary Shelman. "Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato." Harvard Business School Case 515-042, December 2014. (Revised February 2017.)
Hans W. Becherer
Becherer rebuilt Deere & Company, following the financial farm crisis of the 1980s, into a diverse, global competitor. In 1998, revenues from outside the United States accounted for approximately 25% of Deere & Company sales. Becherer so successfully... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
and agriculture production on the West Coast and in the Far East, and later consulting for several East Coast software companies, Sprinkles made his first pilgrimage to Mexico in 1999 on a four-day journey... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout my life, and machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science were fascinating as... View Details