Harvesting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

harvest data with one another to help find the best performing seeds—which represented their largest variable expense. The idea quickly evolved into developing a completely independent, farmer-driven information source identifying top... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

shift. You can tell when they're really on." It's been 25 years since the tribal ceremony that marked his graduation from Harvard. In the blessings he offers at planting and harvest times, Keen often asks for the humility to listen to the... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

harvest the kinetic energy of tides and waves without falling to pieces or costing an arm and a leg is tricky business, and many have failed in the attempt. “Plenty of systems have ended up on the floor of the ocean,” says Rahul Shendure... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

this success was achieved. Heroes Wanted: Why the World Needs You to Live Your Heart Out by Rodney D. Bullard (AMP 187, 2014) Harvest House Publishers With all the hardships and unmet needs in the world, it’s difficult to believe one... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal

limited. O’Neal’s mother worked as a “domestic,” cleaning houses, and when he wasn’t harvesting crops with his three younger siblings, he sold and delivered newspapers. As it turned out, his father wasn’t cut out for farming either, and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Merrill Lynch; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

place, they can go back and harvest their eternal verities - research, credibility, the brokers' personal touch - and use them to their advantage." Dwight Crane points to a recent Merrill Lynch advertising campaign to illustrate that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

of Washington.” Clifton also cites Edwards’s roots in the district — he has lived in Waco since 1987 and keeps a high profile, frequently appearing at ribbon cuttings and community events. On a cloudy September day, for instance, Edwards appears in the Cotton View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the entrepreneurial process - from... View Details

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

producing some 1,700 pounds a day, Crop One boasted 24 plant varieties to the Japanese company’s 4. The Emirates farm is scheduled to have its first harvests this year, and plans for national expansion are now under way. Crop One will... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

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