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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
process. Railroads are also indispensable for the shipment of agricultural products as well as factory-finished goods like consumer products and automobiles. Because railroads... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
last century: energy and infrastructure; agricultural commodities and food products; and natural resources, to name a few.” Kuhns is particularly bullish on China’s hydroelectric power potential. It’s a business he knows well. In 1984, as... 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
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values
By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This working paper examines the history of organic wine, which provides a case study of failed category creation. The modern organic wine industry emerged during the 1970s in the United States and Western Europe, but it struggled to gain traction compared to other... View Details
Keywords: Product Launch; Failure; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-048, December 2017.
- 29 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
3 Insights from My First Year at HBS
me to think in this way. 3. I Followed My Passions This summer I have been working on starting up Chaku Foods Limited, a consumer goods food brand from Ghana that creates delicious snacks using local agricultural products. The first... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Productivity Gains from Foreign Direct Investment: Macro and Micro Approaches By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—This paper discussed the importance of an “integrated approach” to the study of the effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
probiotic beverage products throughout different regions of the world. The book includes in-depth knowledge of local authors on indigenous and commercially produced probiotic beverages and related products. Examining current advancements... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53388 Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi Abstract—Problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - 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 View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
Nova Scotia native Greg Murray divides his time between a town house in Halifax’s city center and Athol Farms, a 400-acre cattle ranch on the Northumberland Strait. A longtime entrepreneur, his latest venture, the Clean Air & Water Centre, uses advanced ozone... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
entrants, and we wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. 2024 Business Track Winner: Crop Diagnostix - Brandon Chi (MBA 2024), Joseph Swift, Amitesh Pratap - Redefining... View Details
- Web
IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
particular research work stream. Potential work streams include energy generation (renewables, cleaner fossil fuels, biomass, and green hydrogen), mobility, clean-tech, agriculture including dairy, urban resilience and adaptation, hard to... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
introduces the product in China, he wonders if the product will be as successful as InMobi anticipates. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
2017 Annual Review of Economics Agricultural Insurance and Economic Development By: Cole, Shawn A., and Wentao Xiong Abstract—This article provides a review of recent research on agricultural insurance (AI)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details
- 2018
- Book
Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time
By: Geoffrey Jones
Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes risk making the Earth unsustainable within our own lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides... View Details
Keywords: Green Business; Sustainability; Business History; Eco-tourism; Organic Wine; Organic Food; Waste Management; Sustainable Finance; Ethics; Finance; History; Entrepreneurship; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; Asia; Latin America; North and Central America; New Zealand
Jones, Geoffrey. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time. Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.