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- 21 Dec 2012
- News
Ray Goldberg honored for contribution to agribusiness
- 12 Aug 2016
- News
Case Study: How Would You Save This Farm?
- 06 Sep 2018
- News
Why U.S. Grocery Chains Need More (and Better) Store-Brand Products
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
up on a 1,200-acre dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania, with ponds and pastures to explore and frogs and turtles to play with, Roosevelt learned early on that “outdoors is the most interesting place to be.” At Harvard College, he majored in... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- News
Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta
around the world, too, and I would love to collaborate with other clubs.” Virtual Case Discussion Dissects Launch of The Farm at Comcast More than 30 alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta joined Professor Linda Hill, on November 23 for an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Exchange: Help Wanted
are currently used by HR. Fuller: There’s an awful lot that has to get arbitrated here in terms of the way work is thought about, and how people get evaluated and developed. Over the 120 years or so of significant organized capital, most people were owner-operators.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Allison Hughes
parents' wheat farm and cattle ranch. Hughes's love of books and learning, she says, comes from her mother, who was trained as a teacher, while her down-to-earth values and passion to excel - not to mention her fluency in Norwegian -... View Details
Keywords: Charlie Hogg
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
stunning—completely untouched,” says Turner. They named the property Madava Farms after daughters Maddie and Ava. “There were no roads, no houses; just forest, trout streams, and wildlife,” he notes. “We’d walk in the woods and think how... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
difference,’” says Dave Bangert (MBA 2005), who became CEO of the company shortly after the program was introduced. Some employees were able to pay pressing bills, while others invested in cows for their farm or saved for house down... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
awareness around the importance of soil health and the benefits of more sustainable agricultural practices like no-till farming and polyculture—in other words, the same practices used by indigenous cultures and promoted by Sacred Seed... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
priority in my mind. The interest became a calling that evolved into a huge opportunity. Twelve years ago, I founded a business that develops wind farms that generate clean, renewable energy. I am active in two markets, the UK and Israel... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
the world. (photo courtesy of Rich Wilson) Good morning, from the Pacific Ocean! #VG2016 #sitesALIVE Cited “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
Above: photo by John Loomis About 80 percent of Frans Kok’s (MBA 1972) cut-your-own customers make the trek to the Middleburg Christmas Tree Farm in Philomont, Virginia, during the two weeks after Thanksgiving. After bumping down the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
At the other end of the supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A game-changer for migrant students
Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) knows how hard life can be for migrant farm workers. He went from picking fruit with this family as a youth to creating a way for migrant farm workers to further their education.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
handle the rockier, less sandy soils of Wisconsin—yet has to fit under the 8-foot-high shade cloth that ginseng depends on. “We’ve started using a lot more technology to reduce the dependence on farm labor,” Hsu says, “but you can only do... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) grew up on an asparagus farm in Scotts Ferry, New Zealand, a village of 65 people. The only girl in her high-school class, she went on to attend Macalester College in Minnesota,... View Details