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Louis S. Cates
Through acquisitions, such as the Nichols Copper Company, the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, and the United Verde Copper Company, Cates expanded Phelps-Dodge into an integrated operation in the copper industry. In 1930, the capital stock of Phelps-Dodge was $30... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
Torrey Reade (MBA 1981) says hello to each of the ten vendors at the Salem, New Jersey, farmer’s market. From Al Dolinski, she buys sunflowers. After inquiring “How’s it going?” she can’t resist the heirloom tomatoes from the Hancocks. The corn from Buzby Farm was just... View Details
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Clarissa Quintanilla
experiments in styles In the Peace Corps, Clarissa and Ben were assigned to sustainable agriculture and artisan cooperative projects in Kuna Yala, an indigenous region in Panama. By the second year, Clarissa became a regional leader for... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
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India - Industry specific research
padding-bottom: 0.35em;"> Brings together agriculture related government information including statistics, technology, resource management, etc. View Details
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
MBA Students Reflect on Their Summer Internships
for an early stage and stealth mode robotics start-up in the agriculture space as a Business Analysis & Operations Intern. I am the fourth and the only non-technical employee of the company. After working as a management consultant at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
twice been named the Best Company to Work For by Washington CEO magazine. I remember sitting in Professor Ray Goldberg’s office during my second year at HBS discussing a project I was working on. His assistant interrupted to tell him that Earl Butz — the U.S. Secretary... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
relational aspects of blue-collar work are dwindling. How can positive communities among workers be enhanced while work becomes progressively more asocial? My Policies or Yours: Do OECD Agricultural Policies Affect Poverty in Developing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
is the recent expansion of the company into value-added protein products in a division called JBS Foods. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-069 Note on Agriculture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
student clubs—the Energy and Environment club and the Food, Agriculture and Water club—to co-host various speakers on campus, career treks across the country, and receptions for students and alumni, just to name a few. We strive to... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion and Sustainability By: Cole, Shawn A., and A. Nilesh Fernando Abstract—We examine the role of management in agricultural productivity by evaluating a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU Common View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Nigeria. It’s very rewarding to do well and see the range of lives we’re impacting—not just in Lagos, but across the country. Ultimately, that’s what keeps us here through the challenges. Back to top Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) Managing Partner, Sahel Consulting... View Details
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Eryn Schultz
study group, because it’s important to me to master the material. What might people find surprising about you? I lived on a farm after college. In context, because of how much I talk about agriculture and food, maybe that’s not so... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
& Environment, the Sustainability, and the Food & Agriculture Clubs organize the annual Climate Symposium hosted at Harvard Business School. The Climate Symposium is one of the largest student-run conferences on campus, and this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
and methodologies centered on the value chain that can be used to design, implement, and evaluate agricultural and agribusiness development initiatives that strive to enhance productivity and competitiveness. View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- News
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
stacks of the white foam growing racks—she lays out the challenge. Climate change and its progenies, drought and flooding, are threatening traditional agricultural systems. And even when those systems work, they still rely on... View Details
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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) to Michael Porter ( press release ) 2003 Scholarly Contributions to Management Award from the Academy of Management 2002 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
transmission and food insecurity in domestic and agricultural settings. Protein degradation modulators deployed against validated cellular targets for use as anticancer therapeutics. A chemical synthesis platform for generating large... View Details