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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

developing world, and they must take the special needs of small-scale producers and malnourished consumers into account. They see how to adapt the developed world’s technology to the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • News

Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

seeds of entrepreneurship among rural youth in America's heartland. Schultz is the founder and CEO of Agracel, an industrial development firm that focuses on rural America. Since 1986, Agracel, based in Effingham, Illinois, has completed... View Details
Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture
  • Profile

Darrin Rahn

Many people do not think of being a young agriculture entrepreneur as their first business venture. But for Darrin Rahn, making hay was in fact his first foray into business. He was born and raised on a family farm in northwestern... View Details
Keywords: CPG
  • 09 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

The first panel demonstrated how four companies are each working differently to address climate change by reducing their impact, from promoting a plant-based diet to investing in regenerative agriculture. The resiliency panel featured businesses with unique View Details
  • Web

Forest L. Reinhardt | About

author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management , published by Harvard Business School Press. Like that book, many of his articles and papers analyze problems of environmental and natural resource management. Focusing especially on the... View Details
  • October 1989 (Revised November 1989)
  • Case

Mumias Sugar Co. Ltd.: A Success Story

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Development Economics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna
Loan officer Jim Teague discovers his agro-processor client has a serious health-code violation just days before a disbursement is due. Proceeding with the loan could jeopardize the health of thousands of customers and put his employer at serious risk. But withholding... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Financing and Loans; Health; Risk Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Tanzania
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  • 03 Mar 2020
  • News

Can This Man Change the American Diet?

in the Boston area, Clover serves an always-changing, all-vegetarian menu to a 90 percent non-vegetarian customer base. In this episode of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna takes listeners behind the scenes at a Clover food View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • Profile

John Rogers

of a fourth generation farmer, I have found no greater fulfillment than serving those in developing communities that rely upon agriculture for their livelihood. The personal joy that comes from supporting... View Details
Keywords: Other Financial Services; Manufacturing
  • Web

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands - Blog - Business & Environment

Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2024 IFC India 2024 - View Details
  • Profile

Tafadzwa Samushonga

from agriculture to financial services, my perspective shifted.” As she progressed along this path, she also began to complement her experience as a strategy advisor with new skills in operational management. “I felt that if I truly... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • 22 Jun 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

is that inventors cannot win these competitions if they cannot come up with funding to realize their inventions, and research and development costs often exceed the amount of the cash prize. So, does the incentive of an eventual prize... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
  • April 1990 (Revised February 1994)
  • Case

Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (A) (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nicaragua
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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

September 2021 Alumni Books

focus on large-scale beverage technology, sections cover starter cultures, regulatory challenges, genetic engineering, quality, and safety. From practical issues of developing probiotic beverages, to the marketing of these drinks to the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 19 Nov 2014
  • News

The Power of Yes

money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

and 1920—and also a time of substantial demographic change, as the country moved from being predominantly agricultural to being industrial and urban. Click on the image to enlargeBabsonchart of United States Business Conditions," January... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative, to discuss the making of the book and to bring us up to date on the current situations in Argentina and Chile. The book demonstrates both the opportunities, and the vulnerability, of many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Preparing Global Leaders

and long-term value creation. In addition to this, he is cofounder and chairman of Voxtra, a social impact investment firm that focuses on improving the livelihoods of those in the agriculture sector in East Africa. He and his wife,... View Details