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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Printed Collections

labor, and socialis Trade Catalog Collection Baker Library’s collection of historical trade catalogs includes dozens advertising products that were commonly sold on credit, particularly furniture, pianos, farm equipment, and sewing... View Details

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

15 Oct 2019
News

Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Senior Lecturer José Alvarez visited wheat fields at a farm owned and run by the Duhau Group in Argentina’s Pampa region. The company was the subject of a case Alvarez wrote, which he taught in the Agribusiness Seminar in 2019. (photo by... 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

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.... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

12 Jul 2018
News

In the Market for Environmental Change

in Central New Jersey before it was populated in the '1940s and '50s. Once I went away to school, that sort of got left behind. When Judy and I bought a farm in Vermont, that rekindled both of our interest and desire to just be on that... View Details

Joseph P. Knapp

States, the Associated Sunday Magazine. From this base, he acquired Crowell Publishing Company and P. F. Collier and Son, publishers of Farm and Fireside and Collier's Weekly. View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

01 Mar 2018
News

Action Plan: Happy Honey

dwindling precipitously due to mites, pesticides, and other threats. Local youngsters don pint-sized beekeeping suits on Price’s 14-acre farm in Nokesville, Virginia, to engage with bees, which total about 1 million at summer’s peak;... View Details

Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov

20 Jan 2017
News

Bringing Power to the People

access to electricity. We are going to build a solar farm in the north of the country where there is no power plant at the moment. It has a real impact; we are bringing power where there was no power before. “It’s really impressive to see... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix

eggs have a short shelf life. Norway’s salmon farms meet some 40 percent of global demand for the species, for instance, but can harvest eggs only during the few months of spawning season. How do you boost production the rest of the year?... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; aquaculture; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

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

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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

Portrait Project

Veronica Pinchin

I learned about hard work from my father, who learned about it from his. For 70 years, Vic Pinchin worked the land on his farm in Streetsville, Ontario. Over the years, seasons of lifting bushels of apples onto his rusty trailer bent his... View Details

20 Feb 2018
News

David Perry’s Green Revolution

Studio Nouveau/Courtesy of Indigo Ag Studio Nouveau/Courtesy of Indigo Ag The latest issue of Harvard magazine includes a feature on agricultural innovation, and highlights the work of Indigo Ag CEO David Perry (MBA 1997) The piece traces Perry’s background, from... View Details

31 May 2017
News

Father Agribusiness

In the late 1950s, an HBS lecturer named Ray Goldberg noticed something: traditional farming and the wider world of business were beginning to intersect with greater and greater frequency. Intrigued, he came up with a name for what he... View Details

10 Jan 2017
News

Paying It Forward

runs a school, a small farm and greenhouse, a pharmacy, and a shrimp farm—all of which are intended to give the children an education, vocational skills, and food. “The opportunity to help people makes me feel good,” says Kundu. “It gives... View Details

Profile

Brendan Mosher

As part of a family running a vegetable farm in the Hudson River Valley, Brendan Mosher had dreams of going to college, playing football, and eventually running his own business. Then 9/11 struck, and Brendan felt called to serve his... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

largest open-field tomato farm in the country. For Mehta, the path to these 25 irrigated hectares, located 45 minutes outside Kaduna, Nigeria, began in 2008, when she was working on HIV issues in the country on behalf of the Clinton... View Details

Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture

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