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- 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
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
The path from the rural South to the upper echelons of Wall Street is not heavily traveled. Indeed, E. Stanley O’Neal (MBA ’78) is surely the only person who has made the journey from the fields of Wedowee, Alabama — where he labored on his grandfather’s View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
necessity. It’s almost like survival or death,” she says. “Because my parents are not tech-savvy, this is where I’m able to help.” The ethically-sourced specialty beans the company offers are from farms and cooperatives in Guatemala,... View Details
- Web
Automobile Industry - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
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
- 20 Jun 2008
- News
Risk and Reward
sure what went wrong with Big Brown. But his owners say they plan to race him through the end of the year. When Big Brown is retired, he will stand at stud at Robert Clay’s (OPM 4, 1980) Three Chimneys farm www.threechimneys.com in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A wild ride from adventure travel to social media marketing
she sold asparagus on her family farm as a child in New Zealand, and started an adventure travel company prior to HBS, Ransom didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. With Wildfire, she saw a need and was willing to put in the hard work and... 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
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
for school, to set him on his way. Deploying what he learned at HBS, Magwegwe set up Inspire Belief to give young people in the poor community of Orange Farm the opportunity to get a secondary or tertiary education. The program provides... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar programs. (Published December 2015) View Details
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Industrial Life Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
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
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
from the Bulletin archives, a feature on Bob Clay (OPM 4, 1980), CEO of Three Chimneys Farm, a Thoroughbred breeding farm in the heart of Kentucky’s bluegrass country. View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
legislation's repercussions or figure out how to systematically capitalize on it." To further explain his model, Cohen cites this year's controversial farm bill, which passed in the Senate by a vote of 68 to 32, with support from 83... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
Trumbull says. In the United States and France, large groups of farmers have worked with government to promote agricultural interests, says Trumbull, noting that the sector includes both small and large farms on the left and right of the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 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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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
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
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Caterpillar Tractor Co. - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
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
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John Nordin
John Nordin majored in Economics and was in the first class of students graduating with the Sustainable Development concentration at Columbia University. The root of his interest? "My aunt had a farm in Ontario that I used to work on... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
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
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