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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

01 Oct 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture - which drives nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions - is a great place to start. Our global... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

01 Dec 2019
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Case Study: Farming It Out

photo courtesy of Charlie Andersen Charlie Andersen (MBA 2014) grew up on a 200-acre organic family farm west of Philadelphia that produced everything from apples and blueberries to sweet corn. Andersen absolutely loved it—for the most part: “What I disliked were all... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

10 Aug 2016
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A Start-Up Turns to Saffron to Help Afghanistan Regrow

Keywords: Jung, Kimberly; Agriculture

29 Apr 2019
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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
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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

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2005
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WATER Ltd.

collect — may sicken or even kill them. The ocean-dominated Earth is indeed the “blue planet,” but only 1 percent of its water, the equivalent of one tablespoonful in a gallon, is fresh and accessible. Agriculture and industry are thirsty... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Apr 2016
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Steps to Success

capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of it.” In describing that sense of accomplishment, Ruhr could well be speaking about the early years of her own career, which was born in Professor Ray A. Goldberg’s View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

22 Aug 2018
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MBA Students Reflect on Their Summer Internships

for an early stage and stealth mode robotics start-up in the agriculture space as a Business Analysis & Operations Intern. I am the fourth and the only non-technical employee of the company. After working as a management consultant at... View Details

01 Sep 2004
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Steve Barger (MBA 1974)

twice been named the Best Company to Work For by Washington CEO magazine. I remember sitting in Professor Ray Goldberg’s office during my second year at HBS discussing a project I was working on. His assistant interrupted to tell him that Earl Butz — the U.S. Secretary... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

and 1920—and also a time of substantial demographic change, as the country moved from being predominantly agricultural to being industrial and urban. Click on the image to enlargeBabsonchart of United States Business Conditions," January... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2024
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Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86

health and agricultural projects for poorer Indians. In the United States, he and Tata Trusts contributed millions of dollars to several universities—including his alma maters Cornell and the Harvard Business School—for research... View Details

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Clarissa Quintanilla

experiments in styles In the Peace Corps, Clarissa and Ben were assigned to sustainable agriculture and artisan cooperative projects in Kuna Yala, an indigenous region in Panama. By the second year, Clarissa became a regional leader for... View Details

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

who has helped to implement such projects overseas. In Uganda, for example, Palladium helped strengthen a local trading organization so that it could enable a large regional brewing company to replace imported agricultural products with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Apr 2024
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Chicago

climate change. They discussed the pros and cons of different agricultural approaches to our climate crisis, and how much of an impact certain solutions, such as regenerative agriculture, could have on our climate. After the talk, alumni... View Details

07 Dec 2015
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Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

consumption of local, sustainably produced food.” That mission was inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots... View Details

25 Mar 2022
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ClimateCAP 2022

emerging. The impacts of the climate crisis are already being felt as the world experiences more frequent extreme weather events, with substantial coastal, urban, and agricultural assets at risk. Climate change is a crucial driver of... View Details

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Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library

knowledge in Baker Collections. Gobierno revolucionario del Perú: bases sociales que lo apoyan Martín J. Scurrah & Abner Montalvo View Record Agriculture and Trade of El Salvador Mary S. Coyner View Record Wage Differences Between United... View Details

24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

is the recent expansion of the company into value-added protein products in a division called JBS Foods. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-069 Note on Agriculture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Donald H. McLaughlin

McLaughlin spent 55 years with Homestake Mining creating the largest supplier of gold in the United States. An ardent supporter of the gold standard, McLaughlin was equally adept as both a hands-on miner and a college geology professor. As CEO of Homestake, he... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

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