Agricultural Business Parks - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2014
HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

in the canned goods aisle of a stateside supermarket? That's one of the questions Mary L. Shelman, director of Harvard Business School's Agribusiness Program, explores in the case study Mutti S.p.a., coauthored with colleagues Senior... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Sep 2018
News

Escape Hatch

tech founder and startup consultant. Burned out, Staff took a few months off before enrolling at HBS to park a borrowed Airstream trailer in various towns around the Mountain West. That was an experiment in tiny living; in Bozeman,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

best model for humanity and nature living together” and revels in sharing the region with visitors. Adirondack Park is the largest publicly protected area in the continental United States, comprising 6 million acres, of which 45 percent... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

26 Feb 2018
News

Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

A Big Deal

muscle of the country’s manufacturing sector. But Tata said that India cannot rely on the manufacturing and service sectors to produce jobs; it needs to add jobs in the agricultural sector. “We have to understand the magnitude of the... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

23 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning at a Robotics Start-Up

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... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology

05 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Student Conferences at HBS: The 2021 Climate Symposium

In 2021, the Energy & Environment Club, Food, Agriculture & Water Club, and Sustainability Club collaborated to host a single, two-day conference focused on climate change. The 2021 Climate Symposium facilitated discussion,... View Details

20 Feb 2018
News

David Perry’s Green Revolution

Studio Nouveau/Courtesy of Indigo Ag Studio Nouveau/Courtesy of Indigo Ag The latest issue of Harvard magazine includes a feature on agricultural innovation, and highlights the work of Indigo Ag CEO David Perry (MBA 1997) The piece traces... View Details

Profile

Daniel Serna

Reservations demonstrated community-supported agriculture by managing a dairy herd and producing grass-fed beef. "I took an A.P. class in economics," Dan says, "to learn more about the View Details

23 May 2018
News

John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1955 Born, Queens, New York 1973 Launches clothing manufacturing business in Ecuador 1978 Earns BS, Finance, New York University 1980 Earns MBA, Baker Scholar 1980 Joins Boston... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

25 Aug 2016

HBS Information Session in Mountain View

This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA program at Harvard Business School. The information session will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to ask questions to students and alumni.... View Details

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

wildflowers,’” Crespin explains. So CollaborateUp helped create the Honey Bee Health Coalition, which brings together beekeepers and beekeeper associations, conservation and environmental groups as well as big agriculture and government... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

Portrait Project

Andrew Huynh

“What pisses you off?” My seatmate asked this simple question shortly after we met, and it has helped shape my search for purpose. I came to Harvard Business School with little clarity on long-term goals, seeing it as “tomorrow’s problem”... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Sustaining a commitment to the environment

Paul Zofnass (AB 1969, MBA 1973) is a 24/7 environmentalist who embraces the synergy between good business and the conservation of natural resources. In 1990 he founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, which provides... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

A "Growing" Online Community

Internet commerce isn't usually associated with chicken feed, but in one country at least, that may be changing. The Dow Jones International News recently highlighted the surge of new Web sites that are geared toward agriculture in... View Details

Web

Industrial Life Photograph Collection | Baker Library

classroom instruction at the Harvard Business School, where there was an increasing focus on industrial relations. Now called the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, it contains 2,106 black and white prints of various sizes. The... View Details

22 Aug 2016

HBS Women’s Information Session in San Francisco

This event is designed for prospective women applicants to learn more about the MBA program at Harvard Business School. The information session will include an admissions presentation and the opportunity to ask questions to alumnae. There... View Details

08 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens

Harvard Business School students darted between raindrops in the western Netherlands into the verdant lobby of Koppert Cress, an agricultural producer of microgreens. It was the last site visit of our... View Details

James H. Goodnight

Goodnight created the initial SAS (statistical analysis system) application as part of his doctoral program. Though the software was initially used to analyze agricultural data, it was soon applied to a variety of View Details

Keywords: Services

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