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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
handle the rockier, less sandy soils of Wisconsin—yet has to fit under the 8-foot-high shade cloth that ginseng depends on. “We’ve started using a lot more technology to reduce the dependence on farm labor,” Hsu says, “but you can only do... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
have been going through major changes, both in the way that they actually farm their land, but then how they manage their businesses and run their businesses more like entrepreneurs, as opposed to the traditional ways that they've run... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Harvest Time
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) grew up on an asparagus farm in Scotts Ferry, New Zealand, a village of 65 people. The only girl in her high-school class, she went on to attend Macalester College in Minnesota,... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
New weather patterns brought on by climate change will require updated farming practices, effective water management, and innovative pest and disease management in the Midwest and around the globe. Increasingly, the business community is... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
in Central New Jersey before it was populated in the '1940s and '50s. Once I went away to school, that sort of got left behind. When Judy and I bought a farm in Vermont, that rekindled both of our interest and desire to just be on that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Chaku Foods Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021), CEO and Founder Concept: A snack-food company in Okrah’s native Ghana that is building farming supply chain infrastructure for other consumer... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
that teach different aspects of financial literacy. Celebrity Calamity focuses on the ins and outs of credit card debt; Farm Blitz: teaches users about debt, savings, and compound interest; Bite Club, billed as “the world’s first-ever... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- News
Father Agribusiness
In the late 1950s, an HBS lecturer named Ray Goldberg noticed something: traditional farming and the wider world of business were beginning to intersect with greater and greater frequency. Intrigued, he came up with a name for what he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
Club of Connecticut Editor's note: You can check out Doering's Two Roads Brewing at tworoadsbrewing.com. The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria Re: Forward-thinking farming It always amazes me what people can... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
largest open-field tomato farm in the country. For Mehta, the path to these 25 irrigated hectares, located 45 minutes outside Kaduna, Nigeria, began in 2008, when she was working on HIV issues in the country on behalf of the Clinton... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
choice is horse racing, not baseball, and the heroes are mostly of the four-footed variety. Just across the road is Keeneland, a sprawling auction and racing complex where Robert Clay (OPM 4, 1980) recently sold a horse from his nearby Three Chimneys View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Senior Lecturer José Alvarez visited wheat fields at a farm owned and run by the Duhau Group in Argentina’s Pampa region. The company was the subject of a case Alvarez wrote, which he taught in the Agribusiness Seminar in 2019. (photo by... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
vehicles, Mahindra has engineered mergers and acquisitions that have catapulted the Mumbai-based corporation onto the world stage. Today, the multibillion-dollar enterprise is involved in information technology, logistics, infrastructure development, and financial... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- News
Into the Light
quality of people’s lives, all at a cost that is less than the current alternatives. In October 2015, eight months after Poindexter’s first trip to Ghana, Energicity completed its first solar farm in a village near Kumasi. Two weeks after... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US oil... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
dwindling precipitously due to mites, pesticides, and other threats. Local youngsters don pint-sized beekeeping suits on Price’s 14-acre farm in Nokesville, Virginia, to engage with bees, which total about 1 million at summer’s peak;... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Bringing Power to the People
access to electricity. We are going to build a solar farm in the north of the country where there is no power plant at the moment. It has a real impact; we are bringing power where there was no power before. “It’s really impressive to see... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
right to have it," Mark explained. "But not much has been done to increase the supply and quality of the supply of water and to be able to economically allocate it to the right locations." Mark grew up on a farm and as a result was savvy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
two-year-old Hereford heifers to populate the farm my father had purchased just after World War II. We drove; the “girls” took the train. Dad had built a western-style, open-front pole barn in anticipation, and our somewhat skeptical... View Details