Agricultural - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Elisabeth C. Paulson

Elisabeth Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the first year course on Technology and Operations Management in the required curriculum.
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Keywords: agriculture; agriculture; agriculture; agriculture; agriculture

11 Mar 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Xavier Giné & Dean Karlan; Food & Beverage

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

richest and most developed countries maintained very high levels of protection for agricultural products, far higher than before 1913.3 The advent of floating exchange rates permitted a huge explosion in international finance markets from... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

during World War I, in expectation of continued high prices, many farms were overwhelmed by the postwar collapse of the agricultural commodities market. Yet foreclosures of residential properties also increased in 1926, rising steadily... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Kairavi Dey December 2024 | Case | Faculty Research Headquartered in Chennai, India, WayCool started by focusing on solving the growing challenge of food losses and low farmer incomes. Dasari and Jayaraman, surprised at the amount of fruits and vegetables lost in the... View Details

10 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests

Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich

Article

Power to the People

By: Eric D. Werker

Every nongovernmental organization has a mission statement. For example, CARE, one of the world's largest and best-funded NGOs, explains its mission as serving "individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Food; Service Operations; Inflation and Deflation; Experience and Expertise; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Knowledge; Poverty; Agribusiness; Diversity; Non-Governmental Organizations; Innovation and Invention; India

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01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

agriculture and from agriculture to industry. We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership." "Times of... View Details

Keywords: Management

November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security

By: Elie Ofek

In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details

Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Transition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; North America; Toronto; Northeastern United States

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds, while purchasing, aggregating, and reselling their outputs. Led by CEO Mathias Eisert, Polish Agro had also ventured into biofertilizers, aligning with new EU... View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

Keywords: Alumni Program, MBA Program; Mar 26 More on Food Policy Pathways: Building a Better Food System Through Visionary Leadership Organizers: HBS Food & Agriculture Club 26 MAR 2025 | HKS Campus Open to the Harvard Community Are you... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds, while purchasing, aggregating, and reselling their outputs. Led by CEO Mathias Eisert, Polish Agro had also... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

Singing to the Corn Taylor Keen's (MPA 1996/MBA 1997) Sacred Seed project shows how a Native American approach to agriculture can protect the planet's soil—one garden at a time If I Were You Alumni offer their advice to current HBS... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

because it doesn’t stifle innovation—and it’s fast. The transformative power of AI can be immensely positive. Eighty-five percent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 are off-track. What if we think about using AI to address climate crisis modeling, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

Edited by Julia Hanna; photo by Webb Chappell When I was 16, I took my savings to the bank and bought some shares of a neighbor’s scaffolding company. Before coming to HBS, I sold them to my mother, who had also acquired some, and we felt pleased about saving the... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

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Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest contributor to climate change. Food & Agriculture Focusing on regenerative agriculture Food and agriculture is the... View Details

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

family to lead the company, Zobel inherited a legacy of prudent management that preserved Ayala's interests through times of revolution, colonial rule, dictatorships, and war—not to mention earthquakes and volcanoes. Established in 1834 as an View Details

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Talent Management ; Customer Satisfaction ; Demographics ; Ethics ; Corporate Accountability ; Employees ; Retention ; Recruitment ; Adaptation ; Consulting Industry ; Auto Industry ; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry ; Consumer... View Details

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