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- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
ClimateCAP is an initiative manage by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business whose mission is to prepare business leaders to understand and respond to the climate challenge. They provide learning resources for MBA students interested in the intersection of business... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
that corporate insiders' excess control rights aggravate the potential risks of insider expropriation of outside investors and thereby increase firms' external finance constraints. Cases & Course Materials Woolf Farming and Processing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
with the strong backing of Dean George P. Baker. The Road to Someplace Better charts Lambert’s life from her humble upbringing on a Virginia farm (which didn’t get electricity until she was eight) to her founding of Centennial One Inc., a... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
introverts). Read More>>> Meet the MBA Class of 2020 Each student that attends HBS has a different story. They are from big cities, small farming villages, and everything in between. Some students have a passion for mathematics... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
boosting the quality of life in close to 50 communities. In Nepal, Heifer’s guidance is bringing several villages out of economic distress. “We are 20 months into a new operation of goat farming there,” says Ferrari. “They’ve made $2.5... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
six hours,” quips Leone, his wife of 53 years, at the couple’s serene 150-acre farm high atop a Brownsville, Vermont, hill surrounded by fog-topped mountains and an artist’s palette of foliage. How does MedKaz work? The patient purchases... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
compounds, which in turn affect a wine’s astringency, color, and mouthfeel. “After so many years farming on the same property, we have learned which areas are most likely to yield the best fruit,” she says. As the vineyard enters its 48th... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
the fields and on farms gathering the cherries and the vegetables and the fruits, all up and down the state.” LEDA was established to help people understand that the populations are shifting and that they need to be more accepting and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
utility vehicles and tractors for the Indian market in the 1950s. Today, it is a $6.6 billion enterprise involved in many activities, including information technology, logistics, infrastructure development, and financial services, as well as automotive and View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Learning from Classmates at HBS
I grew up on a farm in a small town outside of Lexington, Kentucky before attending the University of Illinois where I majored in finance. After college, I moved to Chicago where I worked in consulting and financial valuation services for... View Details
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa
the African market, recognizing how fertilizer use on farms throughout the continent has been 10% of the global average. However, they have not focused on the sale of traditional products but have instead developed “customized... View Details
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
countries, agriculture still represents a large share of the domestic economy. Small farms and lack of resources often means that agriculture is highly inefficient. Technology can dramatically improve productive capacity of View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
won’t be available overnight, though. Nussey points out that energy from a brand-new solar farm might have nowhere to go because, in some parts of the United States—home to one-third of the world’s data centers—energy-grid transmission... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
responsible human being. A standing ovation at the conclusion of his remarks made it clear that in the eyes of his audience, Feurstein had certainly attained that goal. CEO Jon Corzine of Goldman Sachs A farm boy raised in a tiny Midwest... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
experience with innovative products they feel good about buying. europe Our ambition is to help farmers become more profitable via a platform that gives them tools and access to information and insights about farming practices, markets,... View Details
- Profile
Mark Gundersen
experience absolutely made me come alive. I spent most of the summer analyzing financials and modeling loans. Then one afternoon, I got a chance to meet the people we were making loans to. A farmer wearing a 'World's Best Dad' T-shirt told me he was growing his View Details
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Instrument of Pictorial Publicity - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Times’s 1934 review explained that this concerned “publicity of any image of any object, or symbol of any idea that is desired for any reason of business or politics.” 5 The idea of the photographer-as-reporter had assumed special significance in the 1930s in the work... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Alexandra Stanek
manager, and worked on many different projects, from honey farming to selling hand crafts. I got to think about lots of different issues related to work opportunities and income, such as gender, the impact of HIV, and the role of... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
particularly textiles and agriculture, to compete globally. He said it is estimated that 27 million jobs in the developing world have not been created due to subsidies on farm and textile products in developed countries. According to... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette