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- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
venture capital funding? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813140-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-098 The Origins and Development of Silicon Valley On October 1, 1891, as Senator Leland Stanford cut the ribbon at the ceremony gifting 8,000-acres of his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
government intervention persists as the biggest threat to private minority shareholders in these firms. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2217627 Cases & Course MaterialsOcean Mist Farms Bell, David E., Jose B. Alvarez,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Jamaica, and Zimbabwe. Some have worked in cities like Baghdad, Phnom Penh, Monrovia, Tokyo, and Madrid. But none of the students in our group has been to Santa Ana del Valle, a village of just under 2,000 inhabitants, where rug weaving and View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
ago, in 2001, the wind farm would be visible from Hyannis Port and Osterville, two affluent communities. The coastal residents of those towns have led a campaign in Massachusetts and in Congress to thwart the efforts of Cape Wind. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
sustainable agricultural practices like no-till farming and polyculture—in other words, the same practices used by indigenous cultures and promoted by Sacred Seed through gardens like the one at the Tri-Faith Initiative. Growing food on a... View Details
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
HBS brand and network is quite evident, but for me, the value of the instruction was also extremely high. It forms the basis for the frameworks I apply to my day-to-day activities, from finance to leadership to operations." Don Wiviott MBA 1984 | Can 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
- 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
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
Kong and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. In 2012, Noble shifted its business strategy towards an asset-light model. Under this model, Noble did not own mines or farms to produce commodities but built commodity sourcing capacity by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Fernando Abstract Attempts to explain the astonishing differences in agricultural productivity around the world typically focus on farm size, farmer risk aversion, and credit constraints, with an emphasis on how they might serve to limit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
beginning his business, people were pouring into the cities as urbanization accelerated. The family farm and even the family plot, was disappearing. For the first time, women were going into the paid workforce in large numbers, as they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
513-044 From modest beginnings as a cashew trader in Nigeria, Olam, founded by Indian nationals in 1989, has grown into a leading global agricultural trading company, with annual revenues of $14 billion. The company recently has begun investing in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne