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- 03 Mar 2014
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Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
long-running family agricultural businesses: emphasizing high-quality raw materials, building close relationships with farmers, and spending on vigorous marketing and advertising. Born To Innovate Born in 1968, Francesco was full of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
and a decreasing global food supply. Favel figures his work in agriculture provides him with perspective on global food issues. In the next century, he notes, "We're going to have increased demand for food and shrinking global farm... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
looked at "industry-tied votes" by "interested" legislators—senators from states where agriculture was responsible for a high percentage of the state's GDP—and compared those votes with the votes of "uninterested" legislators (from... 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... View Details
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Cost of doing business
U.S. Energy Information Administration. International Energy Statistics: Prices and costs for energy, including electricity, petroleum, natural gas and more. U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service. Current World Production, Markets, and Trade... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
Association of Germany Matthew Perkins, MBA 2009 Founder Yield Pop agricultural resource platform latin america HBS Club of Brazil Jonathan Assayag, MBA 2010 CEO Lema21 Brazilian eyewear mid-atlantic us HBS Club of Washington, DC Angela... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
David Perry’s Green Revolution
Studio Nouveau/Courtesy of Indigo Ag Studio Nouveau/Courtesy of Indigo Ag The latest issue of Harvard magazine includes a feature on agricultural innovation, and highlights the work of Indigo Ag CEO David Perry (MBA 1997) The piece traces... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
discussed the enormous gap between our current situation and the UN SDG goal at a press conference, articulating how “there will definitely be a global crisis” if stakeholders do not act swiftly to address water scarcity. Agriculture... View Details
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Water: reserves and usage
production with a thematic focus on different strategic water issues. Selected data tables from World’s Water series by Pacific Institute. AQUASTAT: Water usage database from the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
from Nigeria's agriculture minister. No Small Beer Re: Alumni brewers You omitted Peter Doering (MBA 1987), a local HBS alumnus, who started a brewery about 15 months ago. We did an HBS alumni club event at his brewery recently, and it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Big Deal
muscle of the country’s manufacturing sector. But Tata said that India cannot rely on the manufacturing and service sectors to produce jobs; it needs to add jobs in the agricultural sector. “We have to understand the magnitude of the... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
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Commodities Research: data and reports
driving current commodity markets. UN Commodity Trade Statistics provides trade data, while the UNCTDAD Commodity Price Statistics has annual and monthly data for View Details
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Darrin Rahn
Many people do not think of being a young agriculture entrepreneur as their first business venture. But for Darrin Rahn, making hay was in fact his first foray into business. He was born and raised on a family farm in northwestern... View Details
Keywords: CPG
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
money supply than the visible money stock like bank notes or specie. 7 The account books of small-time storekeepers show how common credit purchases were, particularly in agricultural or frontier regions. Farmers, for example, were seldom... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
Education programs. “One objective of the case is a greater understanding of the way materials and energy flow in the modern American agricultural system. As our economy becomes more information-driven, it’s good to remind ourselves that... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
Kola Masha (MBA 2006) are working to unlock the potential of agriculture in West Africa. The Nwunelis—a husband and wife team—co-founded AACE Food Processing & Distribution Ltd. in 2009 to combat malnutrition, provide jobs, and reduce... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
Harvard Business School students darted between raindrops in the western Netherlands into the verdant lobby of Koppert Cress, an agricultural producer of microgreens. It was the last site visit of our Immersive Field Course (IFC) on... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using data analytics and sharing... View Details
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Daniel Serna
Reservations demonstrated community-supported agriculture by managing a dairy herd and producing grass-fed beef. "I took an A.P. class in economics," Dan says, "to learn more about the business environment." When he... View Details
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
in agricultural sciences and natural resources management and a master’s in agribusiness innovation. Courses are taught by an international faculty and emphasize experiential education in sustainable View Details