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- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
314-019 Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
wait for it to come back,” he says. “Plus, my creative side was talking hard to me.” He bought a farm in Goodwins Mills, Maine, and lived there for ten years, raising sheep, pigs, and goats. He also began his writing career. “My days... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
which connects farmers to food banks to reduce food waste and feed needy communities; Anne Hayes, executive director of The Food Project, which deploys youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds to work on farms and in urban gardens... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
there is rapid and massive urbanization everywhere as people leave farms for cities in search of opportunity. Half of the world is urban today, and the urban population will double in the next three decades. Second, this migration is... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
regulatory capture cannot be used the same on agencies," contends Shon R. Hiatt, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. "There are a lot of checks and balances and firewalls in place." So how are these agencies influenced? Hiatt, who grew up... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and do-ers to bring fresh energy and passion to the industry. Look for... View Details
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Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
returns were becoming more important than long-term sustainability.” A few months later, in April 2016, Gower made a move toward that sense of sustainability, literally. He and his wife, Sally, moved four hours away from the city life in Adelaide where they’d been... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
is based in Massachusetts and lists in London on AIM. Products are genetically modified fast-growing salmon for fish farmers and disease-prevention drugs and diagnostic kits for farmed shrimp. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
cleaning to landscaping, and through acquisitions in four states, Lambert became well known in the industry. In 1995, she was the first woman to serve as president of an international association of building service contractors. Lambert grew up on a View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup
silk and apply it to food, creating natural protection that slows spoiling and keeps food fresher for longer. Products can be integrated at any time from farm to shelf, allowing food producers, processors, and retailers to deliver more... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
graduate studies, she retreats to her childhood home on Chappaquiddick Island. Izzy’s closest friend, Maria Belli, confronts her with a choice: sink deeper into a numbing grief or find the courage to redefine who she is. Izzy sets aside her fear and takes a job on a... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
learned how important it is to apply systems-level thinking to climate issues and solutions. Henry Tao: I grew up on a small farm in the middle of China. Reflecting on my childhood experience, I've always been passionate about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
“consumption-based economy of the early 20th century originated in the face-to-face selling strategies of peddlers and book canvassers of the previous generation.” The book begins in the early 1800s with a look at the hardships of the first New England peddlers who... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
there are people who are literally trying to solve global issues like poverty and water scarcity, but social entrepreneurship also includes people trying to start a community garden." This is literally the case for Bethel Erickson-Bruce, who founded an urban View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
of Boston, she had a half dozen jobs (lawn mowing, farm stand, newspaper delivery) by the time she was 15. “Once I learned I could make money and have freedom, I was all about capitalizing on opportunities,” she observes. She attended... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
skills and perspectives he had acquired during his extended hiatus. Located just a mile from Boston and part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park, Thompson Island has been committed to disadvantaged youth since 1833, when a group of Boston philanthropists... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
organizations. Massachusetts, for example, has a program to buy development rights on agricultural lands. This ensures that farming will always have a place in the state. However, it takes up to three years for a project to be completed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details