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- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Cheese Whiz
through a range of initiatives, including a complimentary employee shuttle service, free and subsidized child care, and classes in emotional intelligence. “Rural America is the Detroit of 2008,” Scharfman said. “As a model for revitalizing View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
Robb Turner (MBA 1990) and his wife, Lydia, were looking for a place to build a family vacation retreat in 2009 when they found 800 acres of pristine hardwood forest in rural Dover Plains, New York. “The land was stunning—completely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Wisconsin cheddar, but how about Wisconsin Ackawi or Wisconsin Asadero? Twenty years ago, Paul Scharfman (MBA 1979) acquired a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, about an hour’s drive from Madison.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
mobile home in rural Washington State while her enterprising father, a truck driver, was building his own company, is running as a pro-business Democrat and advocate for the middle class. “I come from those roots,” she told the Santa Rosa... View Details
- Portrait Project
Karina Rodriguez
My grandfather signed legal documents with his thumbprint. My dad got a sixth-grade education, and like his father before him, was destined to be a subsistence farmer. My family is from rural Mexico, and my dad understood the destiny of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Disenchanted with the corporate world, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services and made a bold career and lifestyle change, moving to rural South Australia... View Details
- Portrait Project
Revee Rapallo
When I grew up in rural Philippines, my family was fond of collecting toothpaste boxes. We would write our personal details on the back of the boxes and send them to Manila for a raffle promo that toothpaste brands held annually. Our... View Details
- Profile
Mallika Ahluwalia
on special initiatives in the Ministry of Rural Development. She then moved back to McKinsey & Company's Washington D.C. office, where she had completed her summer internship during the MBA. As an Associate and then an Engagement... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
infrastructure (health care, education, pensions)—especially for rural people for whom none of this has ever been free or even widely available at a decent standard. To be clear, roads, railways, and the like have helped people physically... View Details
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
simplistic class analysis, that the countryside was the proper place for peasants, the cities for workers, would lead to the system of nationwide household registration and internal passports known as "hukou," which would consign View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
provide maple syrup to local school breakfast programs. Lots of kids in rural places, and certainly in rural Vermont, are coming to school without having had an adequate start to the day. It's been a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
designed to be inexpensive and widely available. Saathi, the winner of the 2014 HBS New Venture Competition in the social enterprise track, began distribution in 2016 and launched its #OneMillionPads program to donate pads to the women of View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Green Energy Grid
Green-energy entrepreneur Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) founded Houston-based Clean Line Energy in 2009 to tackle a critical challenge. “If you look at the wind-power equation,” he says, “you quickly see that transmitting energy long distances from View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship
Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details
- June 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd.
By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
In 2005, COFCO Ltd., one of China's largest and most successful companies, acquired Xinjiang Tunhe, a tomato processing firm, which had been, in recent years, poorly managed. COFCO changed Tunhe's management team and set out to create a culture of professionalism and... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Customer Relationship Management; Rural Scope; Supply Chain Management; Performance Consistency; Safety; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China
Bell, David E., and Aldo Sesia. "COFCO Xinjiang Tunhe Co., Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 508-079, June 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
- Profile
Gary Shi
focusing on microfinance that helps farmers improve their farms, improve their lives.” Gary has been back to China in both his winter and spring breaks to “learn more about what’s happening in rural areas.” For his summer internship, he... View Details
- 2004
- Chapter
The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market
Abrami, Regina M., and Nolwen Henaff. "The City and the Countryside: Economy, State and Socialist Legacies in the Vietnamese Labor Market." In Reaching for the Dream: Challenges of Sustainable Development in Vietnam, edited by Melanie Beresford and Angie Tran. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
diminishes both the carbon footprint and utility bill of an American household, or a rural Internet kiosk that provides market prices to Brazilian fisherman by day and disease diagnoses by night. If technology can be an enabler for good,... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
inadequacy of facilities in rural areas. “Basic health care is not accessible to a majority of Indian people,” she observes, noting that conditions in remote villages “drain life and productivity” from the entire country. In contrast, in... View Details