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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
not luck. It’s the ability to recognize opportunity. Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ I was ready.” Indeed, he was. Summoning his HBS skills and McKinsey experience, Rogers quickly went about rounding up the $1... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
with local public and private schools, enabling students to volunteer at All Souls on a regular basis. Young school children set tables and make centerpieces while older ones prepare food and wait on guests.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
culture. “It took over 150 years to develop, and it’s dependent on the geographic isolation and biodiversity of the area. You can’t replicate it.” At the same time, Marietta expanded the school’s partnership with the nonprofit Grow Appalachia, which combats View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
sense of the challenge and camaraderie experienced by the group. In describing the increasing difficulty of the climb, many pointed out the contrast between the first day and the last. On day one, the hikers climbed for about six hours to 10,000 feet on a View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- News
The Seeds of Learning
Adam Zmick (MBA 2011) is cofounder of Gardeneers, an environmental education organization based in Chicago, Illinois. In this interview, he explains the connections between learning about food and children’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
observe an almost total absence of 20- to 40-year-old men and women around the village, or to experience the hard labor that falls on those left behind when it comes to simple needs like getting and preparing View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
building an agricultural and market infrastructure in places—like parts of Nepal, Romania, Haiti, and Guatemala—where little or none has previously existed. “The way we do this is through value-based development, where we engage farmers in wealth-creating value chains... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
increases of 30 percent annually for the last five years. It holds 60 percent of market share in a number of U.S. cities, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. The company came to life at HBS. Explains Asher, who moved to America from Peru as a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Conducting Research That Influences Practice
are designed. “When customers can see how much effort goes into preparing their food, they appreciate it more, and when kitchen staff see customers enjoying a meal, they become more motivated and productive,” says Kim, who used technology... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
distinctions between food and medicine fade, we will see a proliferation of crop-based drugs, or 'agriceuticals.' " The article notes that animals are also being turned into drug-manufacturing entities, and that bioengineering may some... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
foods lost out to the greater convenience of TV dinners. Now, with the advent of the microwave oven, virtually all prepackaged, prepared food became convenient enough - making... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
driver of climate change. “It’s a two-for-one shot,” Falcon says, adding that Full Cycle’s bugs will even happily chow down on food-contaminated items that cannot normally be recycled, like pizza boxes and sandwich wrappers. As a pilot project, Full Cycle is View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
learning programs, food and other basic resources, and health services for more than 1,200 children each week in this underserved community. “We had to rethink the operation of our food pantry. We had to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
partnerships, strategy, and marketing,” Condo notes. “We prepare them to go back to their home countries and become catalysts for positive change and growth.” Recently launched student start-ups include Agrovita, which combines tilapia... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
was charged with discovering what happens to all of the uneaten prepared food in the city; they came away with a government incentive scheme to reduce the leakage of untreated View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
really hungry for change,” said Lewin. “It is precisely because business does have a big voice that I think they have an opportunity and the influence to change that narrative.” JUNE 22 Ken Simril (MBA 1996), a CEO in the food industry,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
collection, a unique research and teaching resource that comprises more than 140 videos of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos feature South African business leaders in the banking (Cas... View Details