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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
of more than 160,000 members and about 1,000 volunteers ready to welcome the Irish diaspora, estimated at 70 million people worldwide. “A volunteer brings you down and shows you the house your people were born in. They show you the land they 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
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
have been going through major changes, both in the way that they actually farm their land, but then how they manage their businesses and run their businesses more like entrepreneurs, as opposed to the traditional ways that they've run... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 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
- 12 May 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
food-education spaces and food-business incubators, Duda has combined his MBA with the lessons he learned in restaurants. He’s also actively involved with the resurrection of the Redland Farm Life School, near Miami. When it opened in... View Details