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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
Currently, the migrants are forced to seek shelter in dilapidated, overcrowded mobile-home parks, or to live in parking lots or in the brush, sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes. “These are people who are visible to drive our economy,... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
technological development offered by the Royal Agricultural Society of England at annual competitions between 1839 and 1939. We find that the effects of prizes on competitive entry are large, and we also detect an impact of the prizes on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809095 GLOBALGAP: Food Safety and Private Standards Harvard Business School Case 509-004 In response to new laws governing liability and several food safety scares in the 1990s, European retailers drove... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
(ABC) (A) Li Jin, Aldo Musacchio, and Hania DawoodHarvard Business School Case 712-006 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712006-PDF-ENG The IPO of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Agriculture and Business, Emeritus. “Ray left this amazing legacy that my colleagues and I have continued to move forward,” Alvarez says. “He saw that people in the food industry needed to talk to each other to understand the issues they... View Details
- August 2013
- Article
Lords of the Harvest: Third-party Influence and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park
Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision making. We posit that regulatory agencies are influenced by the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and... View Details
Hiatt, Shon R., and Sangchan Park. "Lords of the Harvest: Third-party Influence and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms." Academy of Management Journal 56, no. 4 (August 2013): 923–944.
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Lords of the Harvest: Third-Party Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms
By: Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park
Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory agencies' decision making. We posit that regulatory agencies are influenced by the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via political influence as is argued in the traditional regulatory-capture... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases of large firms’ new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
for Tomato Jos, even after she was offered a job at a major agricultural company. Mehta says, “Even if my business ends up failing—which I hope it doesn’t—if I am able to inspire one student a year to come... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect of the financial literacy training and three marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Rent Out Your Ride
CLARK: A bright idea for utilizing untold idle capacity, America’s privately owned autos. It’s estimated that a privately owned midsize car costs about $8,000 a year to own and operate. In cities, it also spends most of its time parked... View Details
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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library
Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution . Nava Correa, Arturo: Logra Tu Dream: How 50 Successful Latinos & Latinas Turned Their Dreams Into Reality. Nwuneli, Ndidi: Food Entrepreneurs in Africa: Scaling... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
organizational context makes a difference for what Big Five personality factors influence leader performance: extroversion appears to be more influential in highly social and active work environments, whereas conscientiousness has greater salience in academic and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World, and more recent conversations specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we’ve talked with many Harvard Business School alumni the world over. Here are some examples of how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Artist Christo Visits HBS
To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team known for their massive, self-funded outdoor art projects. (Their... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
interest in the health of the soil. “If you restore soil and agriculture and don’t use chemical fertilizers to grow crops, and you change your tilling practices, if you did this with one in five farms around the world, you would capture... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
pricing scheme, bond markets will be central to financing climate change and other environmental interventions. So-called green bonds appeal to investors who are looking for a safe place to park their money, as well as doing a little bit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments, which rely on the View Details