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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
because it doesn’t stifle innovation—and it’s fast. The transformative power of AI can be immensely positive. Eighty-five percent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 are off-track. What if we think about using AI to address climate crisis modeling, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
change, geopolitics, declining fertility rates, bad agricultural practices, high levels of debt, shortages of labor and raw materials, and more. You can’t predict the stress point, but the fact that something will crack is not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
fine-tuning Burro, the fully autonomous robot designed to labor alongside farmworkers. But he also was looking to the future and thinking through how the company (formerly known as Augean Robotics) should handle the many potential applications for an View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living ambassador of the Sacred Seed project, a nonprofit Keen founded in 2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural... View Details
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
agriculture, and Lydia had a background in the food industry. “It seemed a good match,” he says. “And if you do it right, harvesting maple sap is a totally sustainable agricultural practice.” Good Timing and Good Chemistry Doing it right... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Sunny's MBA
In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile mill in Nigeria. A foreign... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
technical solution or a cure for something that isn't scientifically possible or known," says Zeaske. "We have a resource scarcity and distribution problem, not a production problem." That last point is particularly true in agriculturally... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
when locked-down viewers turned to sports for respite. His two decades in banking had been focused on development—funding bridges, dams, electrical power stations, agricultural installations, and manufacturing operations—and he wondered... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
the worst global pandemics. We are likely facing one of the largest industrial transformations in our lifetime, from the massive deployment of clean energy and electrification of transport, to the shift to more sustainable agriculture and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
for running the family business. With MBA in hand, however, Goldberg put off his return home in order to attend the University of Minnesota, where he completed a Ph.D. in agricultural economics in just two years. From 1952 to 1955,... 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
- 14 Jun 2016
- News
Why HBS Teaches Students About Whaling
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
philanthropist to give us $1 million to start a nonprofit to design, evaluate, and scale this service.” In 2015, Cole and Kremer launched Precision Agriculture for Development, together with Dan Björkegren of Brown University and Heiner... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
manage a food distribution company and an agricultural investment fund. “Many global experts have underscored that this pandemic is a 12-18 month battle and that we can expect future pandemics and shocks related to climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
and long-term value creation. In addition to this, he is cofounder and chairman of Voxtra, a social impact investment firm that focuses on improving the livelihoods of those in the agriculture sector in East Africa. He and his wife,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is CEO of PAMU Farms of New Zealand (formerly Landcorp Farming). In this video, he talks about the changes the organization is going through to adjust for shifting dietary trends and the impact of large-scale farming on the environment. “PAMU... View Details