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- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
alternative to get into the construction business. Because I used to see my brothers, they worked so hard day after day. And I had a chance at 12 years old to work on a racehorse farm in New Jersey. I think at that point I really felt... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
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trimmed staff, scaled back the size of funds, and gotten back to the basics of investing. For the top firms, business is looking up. In the Blood Robert Clay goes the distance as owner of Three Chimneys Farm, a Thoroughbred horse farm in... 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
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operating styles as well as in scale. We examine three examples—Ben and Jerry's acquisition by Unilever,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded fresh/chilled dairy products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
of Satyam Computers (A) Set in 2008, the case details Tech Mahindra, an information technology (IT) company within the Mahindra Group, an Indian multi-industry company with a diverse stable of businesses including automotives, farm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
value-added products like yogurt. The entry of large multi-brand retailers like Walmart and Carrefour in the Indian market threatens to squeeze Amul's margins and undermine its low-cost distribution network. India's large young rural population is shying away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
answer it, they looked not to high-tech modern prizes but to a comparatively unglamorous series of awards sponsored by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) back in the nineteenth century. For decades, explains Lerner, the RASE offered dozens of awards for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Dec 2012
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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
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
included exploring the potential for ecotourism, organizing a women’s farming collective, and coordinating efforts to save crops from raids by elephants. He enjoyed the experience so much that he extended his term by a year to help a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
benefactor and main trading partner, entering what is referred to as “the Special Period,” which would last until the mid-1990s. Gas shortages led to farming and distribution disruptions, which led to food shortages. The average Cuban... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
Grobo had an unusual business model: it did not own land nor farm machinery. Instead, it created a network of partnered producers and suppliers. In other words, it outsourced as much as possible. CEO Gustavo Grobocopatel believed that Los... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
of American occupation (1898-1918), we find that the implementation of these reforms was very slow. As a consequence, tenure insecurity increased over this period, and the distribution of farm sizes remained extremely unequal. We identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
strategy for how you actually get to those results. For example, the MCC made a $550 million grant to the government of Ghana that was focused on infrastructure such as irrigation and roads that could get farm goods to market, as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
some changes to the area around Calhoun in the late 1990s. One by one, farms that had been in the same family for generations were going up for sale. “I thought, well, I guess these third-generation kids don’t want to be farmers,” he... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Economy Ray A. Goldberg and Matthew PrebleHarvard Business School Case 911-409 CHS—the largest farm cooperative in the U.S.—was planning its 2020 vision statement and the role the cooperative should play in the food system. Purchase this... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
expanded social value, but they also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operating styles as well as in scale. This article examines three examples—Ben and Jerry's acquisition by Unilever,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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and finance : Steve Schwarzman on several early make-or-break deals for Blackstone; Sarah Frey negotiates advantageous supplier deals for her tiny farm with a vindictive Walmart enroute to building an agricultural empire; Bruce... View Details