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  • 08 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

understood in the light of her findings on restricting women’s promiscuity. Becker’s research shows that countries that historically relied more on pastoralism than agriculture have wider gender gaps in the workforce. For example, such... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 21 Nov 2018
  • Blog Post

Harvard Square's Hidden History

Lexington and Concord in April 1775, but the king’s troops quickly reassembled it.    Winthrop Park: Site of Newtowne Market  Tiny Winthrop Park sits a quarter-mile up John F. Kennedy Street from Anderson bridge; near its southeast... View Details
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

linked to the Harvard Business School in perpetuity through the building that will bear their name." Speaking briefly, Spangler thanked the Dean for the opportunity to make an investment so closely tied to the quality of student life at... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

Editor's note: In their new book, Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance, Harvard Business School professors Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih argue that reinvesting in America's manufacturing prowess is... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 13 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

products perceived as feminine—especially in cases where men use a particular brand to communicate their own identities. Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Jill J. Avery calls this phenomenon "gender contamination."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto
  • 09 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

problem. For some time, the company had to deal with a nationwide shortage of truck drivers. “Young people aren’t going to this business,” said Pietro Satriano, US Foods’ CEO, in a new Harvard Business School case study entitled US Foods:... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • December 2016
  • Case

Muñoz Group Faces Brexit

By: Forest Reinhardt and Annelena Lobb
In 2016, Muñoz Group, a multifaceted agribusiness company that developed, produced, packed, imported, and exported citrus, flowers, grapes, juice, and ice cream, faced an unexpected new challenge in the British public’s vote for the United Kingdom to exit the European... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Globalization; Intellectual Property; Government and Politics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe
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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

management began drafting the company's sustainability plan for 2015 and beyond, CEO Andrew Liveris confronted the question of whether to maintain, modify or terminate the BWC program. SOCIAL BUSINESS AT NOVARTIS: AROGYA PARIVAR by... View Details
  • September 2013
  • Teaching Note

Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm

By: Nancy F. Koehn and Nora N. Khan

Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business founded on the principles of product quality, organizational alignment and sustainability. A former... View Details

Keywords: Development Stage Enterprises; Entrepreneurs; Experimentation; Management By Objective; Technology; Values; Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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  • 09 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

fundamental question: How do we make health care affordable? Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network. The technological enabler transforms a technological... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health
  • 24 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the climate space and asked them the following, “What... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the climate space and asked them the following, “What... View Details
  • December 2023
  • Case

Raízen: Helping to Decarbonize the World?

By: Gunnar Trumbull, Pedro Levindo, Daniel Tong and Rafaella Mazza
Raízen, the world’s largest sugar and ethanol producer, strived to find ways to expand the second-generation ethanol (E2G) market, which it pioneered. The company planned to invest R$24 billion (around $4.6 billion) in 20 production plants, with a total capacity to... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Production; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil; Europe; North America; United States; Argentina; Paraguay
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  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the climate space and asked them the following, “What... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
  • 04 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

the innovation process (as Pete Clekurs pointed out). The park is designed to create fast-response product development by linking product designers to manufacturers in a way that minimizes the need to ship liquid ingredients over long... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • December 2012
  • Case

Ocean Mist Farms

By: David E. Bell, Jose B. Alvarez, Mary Shelman and Michael Norris
In late 2012, Kori Tuggle, director of marketing and business development at Ocean Mist Farms, a California produce company, examines her social media-based marketing program and her attempts to create a brand for a bulk commodity. View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; California
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Additional Outdoor Sculpture | About

— Aldrich Lawn | Learn More John Safer Search, 1983 — Mellon Courtyard | Learn More Joel Shapiro Untitled, 2003 — Peterson Park | Learn More Exhibitions Sentinel (Mami Wata) Exhibition 2022-2027 Originally commissioned for the art... View Details
  • Web

Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

with an emphasis on agricultural and financial management. He received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where he was an NSF and Javits Fellow, and an A.B. in Economics and German Literature from... View Details
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace