Agriculture - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2017
News

Global Perspectives

data storage components. They also examined the gemstone and jewelry trade in Thailand, which produces 80 percent of the world’s jewelry, from high-end to mass-market, and met with villagers in Sumatra to discuss efforts to effect change in View Details

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Brighton Mudzingwa

to be part of a sustainable economic system." But, Brighton says, "By the time I left the country in 2003, it was effectively unraveling. Agriculture was the backbone of our country. But a controversial land-distribution... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

EU Commission President Juncker sees “the wind [ ] back in Europe's sails.” Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55046 Harvard Business School Case 518-034 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2019
News

INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling

Need for Speed Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days of the commercial internet. Firsthand witnesses to massive successes such... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

15 Jul 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Keywords: by Pol Antras & C. Fritz Foley; Agriculture & Agribusiness

Clayton L. Mathile

Mathile bought the struggling pet food company from the founder when it had only one main product. Over the next decade, Mathile increased the company’s revenues by tenfold and introduced a full line of pet food and other pet-related products. In so doing, Mathile... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

Paul C. Henshaw

A geologist by training, Henshaw was not immune to being on the frontline of mine exploration and development. Through his efforts, Homestake became an established provider of uranium. In addition, he personally was responsible for expanding Homestake’s mining... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

06 Jan 2014
News

Sprouts Sees Healthy Growth Ahead

Keywords: Whiole Foods; Agriculture; Agriculture

16 Nov 2015
News

Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

that way.” After graduating, he spent a decade at the Hawaii-based Castle & Cooke, which was at that time a large agriculture firm that included Dole Food Company. Sprinkles began in the seafood division at Castle & Cooke’s San Francisco... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

29 Aug 2017
Blog Post

3 Insights from My First Year at HBS

me to think in this way. 3. I Followed My Passions This summer I have been working on starting up Chaku Foods Limited, a consumer goods food brand from Ghana that creates delicious snacks using local agricultural products. The first... View Details

03 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Energy & Environment Club

and seize career opportunities that make a tangible, sustainable impact. 3. Empowering Your Ideas: Through active dialogue and initiatives, we aim to transform your ideas into impactful actions.The E&E club is committed to working closely with the Sustainability... View Details

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Margaret L. Rodriguez, Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing. Food safety problems can be quite costly. An E. coli outbreak in Germany in 2011 caused $1.3 billion in losses to the global agricultural industry. Yet, a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

03 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen

source: the authors. Sustainability Throughout the tour, the Van den Ende brothers touched upon multiple aspects of sustainable agriculture that have been integrated into their greenhouse. Within the past year, 50% of their greenhouse... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

shipping. In addition, algae can grow in salty or brackish water under extremely harsh conditions; so unlike other biofuel feedstocks such as corn and soy, algae don’t need to compete with agricultural crops for fresh water and arable... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

once was considered thinking and will increasingly do so." Bill Barker agreed, in the process offering his solution: In the past, he wrote, the portion of the working population employed in agriculture dropped from 50 percent to less... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

challenges, not on the hard work of winning hearts and minds, Shapiro ultimately lost his company. He was forced to sell Monsanto to Pharmacia-Upjohn, which bought it for its pharmaceutical division, valuing the agricultural biotechnology... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

Web

Finalists | New Venture Competition

Brandon Chi (MBA 2024) Joseph Swift Amitesh Pratap Redefining precision agriculture through AI-powered, genetic insights. Poka Labs Malay Shah (MBA 2024) Andrew Bass (MBA 2024) Poka Labs is building a cloud-based operating system built to... View Details

October 25, 2022
Article

Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business

By: José A. Tiburcio, Lino Miguel Dias and Robert S. Kaplan

Subsistence dairy ranchers in Central America struggle to stay afloat during the dry season when grass is scarce. Global life sciences company Bayer has launched a program to enable them to produce their own corn silage feed. The results of this program are helping to... View Details

Keywords: Sharing Economy; Innovation; Economic Growth; Poverty; Production; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Central America

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