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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty View Details
- 12 Nov 2020
- News
All in the Neighborhood
[they] couldn’t help but get involved,” Hicks, who was recently featured in the To Serve Better Project, told the Harvard Gazette. “We had employees doing the ‘lunch buddies’ at the elementary school, we had employees helping teachers decorate their classrooms doing... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- News
The Business of Saving Old Buildings
setting up a nonprofit foundation to do recycling of older buildings, and so I started the Architecture Heritage Foundation and was asked by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to come up with what they could do with the surplus wholesale View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
third-largest telecommunications company in the world. Today, Bharti Enterprises is one of India’s most successful companies, with more than 30,000 employees. In addition to Airtel, its diverse concerns include realty, financial services, and an agri- and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming, it’s amazing how we could... View Details
- 29 Mar 2017
- News
Randy Day Named Perdue Farms CEO
Randy Day (AMP 165, 2003) has been named the new CEO of Perdue Farms, the fourth largest chicken producer in the United States. Day, only the fourth person to hold the CEO role in the company’s 100-year history, started with Perdue in 1980 and most recently held the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
H-E-B and the Monterrey Food Bank, a program administered by the Mexican branch of the nonprofit organization Caritas. The outcome? The nonprofit, which received sporadic support in the past, suddenly had access to the organizational... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why McMinn, founder and chair of the Napa... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
IPA Meets IPO
KOCH: Putting shares of the company in the hands of the people who really believe in its product. Lots of business executives tout the importance of focusing on the customer. But craft brewmeister Jim Koch (MBA 1974), founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
photo courtesy of Charlie Andersen Charlie Andersen (MBA 2014) grew up on a 200-acre organic family farm west of Philadelphia that produced everything from apples and blueberries to sweet corn. Andersen absolutely loved it—for the most part: “What I disliked were all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first product CassVita... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
(Belarus), all members of the MBA Class of 1996 and students in Professor Ray A. Goldberg's Agribusiness Management Research elective, conducted a study of Carrefour, the French mass-market food retailing giant. Founded in 1959 by two... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Maasai Village
That night we learned from Harvard professor Caroline Elkins that these nomadic people have one hundred words to describe the cows that are their livelihood. In addition to providing most of the food for the Maasai, whose diet consists of... View Details
Keywords: Hospitality
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
creative tension of competition and cooperation.... We are now in the grip of another agricultural revolution in which Elite Capital takes control of the food chain. It is false to argue that intensification is needed to feed the world... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- News
Selling Kentucky Bourbon in Japan
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
also forbidden the group from stealing food. They still had gold coins, which Green had distributed among the men, and would buy what food they could. One night, however, the team discovered that their limited View Details
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
A spicy chickpea dish © Kirti Poddar on Flickr When Dean Nitin Nohria sat down for an interview with us last September, we asked: "What do you like to do for fun?" His answer: "I love to cook. I'm vegetarian, and I cook Indian and Italian food. At home, I'm the chef.... View Details