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- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
or locations are likely to be more touched by internet technology than they are today? Greenstein: There is an old Danish saying that it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. So take this with a grain of salt. To... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
certain strategic assets that are important for building critical military equipment. One can be too cautious about reliance on foreigners. In the early 19th century, the British thought their grain supply was strategic, and they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
negative. Part of the brilliance of Land's process lay in rethinking the use of the unexposed crystals. In his instant photography process, a hypo solution carried the silver from the dissolved grains and deposited it on the receiving... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
British Columbia. His father was a grain inspector for the government and his mother was a nurse; McArthur was one of two sons. He grew up in a working-class environment in the suburb of Burnaby and attended Burnaby South High School,... View Details
Erwin Kelm
Over the years, Kelm built Cargill, Incorporated into a $10 billion grain company handling more than 25% of America’s grain exports. He operated 600 plants in 38 countries, employed more than 24,000 people,... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
John H. MacMillan, Jr.
During MacMillan’s presidency, the family grain business grew significantly. He invested in several large grain elevators within the United States and expanded Cargill’s operations to Europe (becoming the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Edward T. Bedford
In 1906, Bedford became president of the newly consolidated Corn Products Refining Company. Under Bedford’s leadership, Corn Products Refining manufactured several forms of oil, including “Mazola,” several forms of sugar, and a grain... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
grain prices during the commodities boom at the start of the decade. But when grain prices collapsed—the price of corn has fallen in half since 2012—seed and input prices were not restored downward. Now... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
While meeting with representatives of the Kenya Ports Authority at the Port of Mombasa, faculty members toured a bulk carrier ship off-loading grain commodities to Grain Bulk Handlers, one of the companies... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
going into consulting or investment banking. What I was interested in was the grain merchandising business. His class was very popular and tough, and I loved it. Somehow it struck me—all these large companies that move giant quantities of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
Whitney MacMillan
MacMillan was responsible for the expansion of Cargill’s business from $10 billion to $33 billion in 10 years. He diversified Cargill’s scope of activities by introducing it to the consumer market. By the mid-1980s, the firm became the most powerful force in the world... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the quality of food in Nigeria
Capital. The goal is to source, process, and distribute fruits, vegetables, herbs, and grains within West Africa, thereby improving nutrition levels, aiding farmers, and creating jobs. Social entrepreneurship comes easily to Nwuneli,... View Details
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Joel Shapiro Untitled 2003 | About
collection. Many of Shapiro’s large bronze sculptures, including Untitled , are first made in wood, serving as patterns for the versions cast in bronze. The original wood grain remains in the final bronze casting; the artist’s intention... View Details
- Portrait Project
May Lam
I was breathless as a sense of loss swept through me. The Tibetan monks had just washed away a sand mandala, an intricate art piece that took them weeks to build using millions of grains of colored sand. This process of creation and... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
he believes has potential to scale nationally. Since selling Panera in 2017, he’s also invested in three other health-conscious cafes based around Boston. Life Alive offers vegetable-filled grain bowls, broth and smoothie bowls, CBD... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
is interchangeable and indistinguishable from another token of the same type. Just like with units of currency or grains of rice, one unit of a fungible token holds the same value and characteristics as another unit of the same kind of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
we only act when necessary to avert unacceptable — and in some cases dire — outcomes. The second is that any intervention go with, rather than against, the grain of the market system. Our objective is not to supplant or replace markets.... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
mortar retailers, Beck cut against the grain and decided to embrace both clicks and bricks. Bluemercury has a vast online clientele, but the brand’s larger revenue stream comes from its 60 retail outlets in 16 states around the country.... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
concerns." Discussing these matters recently, Goldberg displays the same high level of energy and determination that have been his hallmarks throughout his life. Born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, he started working in his father's small hay, feed, and View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019
with three choices on a tray: grain, a pen, and a gold coin. Grain represents a love for food. The pen, a love for learning. And gold, a love for business. My mom told me I picked up the pen with one hand and the gold coin with another. ... View Details