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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
Like any private equity firm, The Lyme Timber Company seeks attractive financial returns for its investors. But Jim Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing director at Lyme, considers a second audience—the public—when making decisions about his company’s timber and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping smallholder farmers feed the world
Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) doesn’t want to just alleviate global hunger and poverty. He wants to eradicate these problems. That has been his focus since 2010, when he became president and CEO of Heifer International, the Little Rock, Arkansas-based nonprofit that... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- News
Why HBS Teaches Students About Whaling
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
look at ways in which the main agriculture challenges in the country were being addressed by both the government and foreign donors. I was knee-deep in documents, sitting outside on a typically breezy, eerily silent Kigali evening. As I... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Leveraging the power of yes
programs as well as its efforts to distill and disseminate best practices by understanding the true social impact of investing in early-stage companies that provide affordable access to agricultural inputs, high-quality education, clean... 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
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
Patterson, and book clubs. In nineteenth-century agricultural marketing, farmers transported their crops to market and waited for people to buy them, much as the publishing industry today ships books to stores and waits for customers to... View Details
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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection | Baker Library
describe their content. The photographs depict agricultural operations, construction, and research activities undertaken by the company’s many operating units. These units produced bananas, sugar, abaca (for use as hemp), cacao, palm oil,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England, an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome barriers to increased local food... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
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
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Industrial Life Photograph Collection | Baker Library
companies. The images include men and women at work, production methods, research laboratories, factory exteriors, offices, completed products, and manufactured equipment, such as agricultural and road-building machinery, in use. Most... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
art alone typically work part-time in urban areas in relatively low-paying jobs and they have trouble finding large spaces for their art making. On the other hand, the agricultural industry in Japan has been losing young workers. To... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated humanitarian crises. His first project was in Bangladesh in the 1970s, when he led a project on agricultural restoration after... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
afraid that mass-produced supermarket food is excessively processed, tainted with antibiotic residues and hormones, and lacking important nutrients. But public-health and agriculture regulators say no: Americans have no inherent right to... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
D), Summer Internship: Strategy and Marketing MBA Intern at Agriculture Capital Agriculture Capital is an investment advisor that invests in farmland and food processing assets to build consumer-driven,... 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
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208081 PublicationsFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks, and Agricultural Lending in India Author:Shawn A. Cole... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 12 May 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
agriculture to boys. For the 21st century, Duda envisions a center that brings people together around food and agriculture, teaching lessons of self-sufficiency that were part of the Farm Life School philosophy. “Food can be about... View Details