Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

it from the atmosphere so that it can be sequestered or used it in agricultural soil, building materials, or fuels. As incumbent companies and industries embrace these... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

not occur in non-election years, or in private bank lending. I show capture is costly: elections affect loan repayment, and election year credit booms do not measurably affect agricultural output. Download... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2014
Teaching Plan

Diageo: Innovating for Africa

By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Mary Shelman and Andrew Otazo

This teaching plan is designed to help students understand the challenges and opportunities of launching products and building businesses in developing markets. View Details

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April 1982 (Revised March 1986)
Case

Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (B)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nicaragua

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September 1992
Case

Archer Daniels Midland

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Vincent N. Willis

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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December 1997
Case

Bluewater Aquaculture

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay

An entrepreneurial shrimp farm in Belize is evaluating its future growth strategy in every segment of the vertical value-added food chain. View Details

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Performance Evaluation; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Food and Beverage Industry

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21 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1990 (Revised December 1990)
Case

Privatizing the Mexican Sugar Industry/Grupo Beta San Miguel

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Privatization; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Mexico

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10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

was a vertically integrated food company with a management system that allowed it to innovate and grow systematically. With sales of $2 billion in 2016, the firm not only produced flour, vegetable oil, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

on? Are they concentrated in a specific industry or business type? A: Inventors can file for patents in many technology fields, ranging from chemicals and drugs to computer software to View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

April 1990 (Revised February 1994)
Case

Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (A) (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nicaragua

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May 1979
Case

Hesston Corp. (Consolidated)

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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February 2004
Teaching Note

ABS Global (TN)

By: David E. Bell

Teaching Note to (9-504-053). View Details

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Australia

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November 1989
Case

Colly Farms Cotton Ltd. (B)

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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November 1989 (Revised December 1989)
Case

Pandol Brothers, Inc.: From Grape Farm to Trade Giant

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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October 1987 (Revised January 1990)
Case

Colly Farms Cotton Ltd. (A)

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

using extremely precise readings over the past five decades and data from Antarctic ice cores going back hundreds of thousands of years. The data suggests that CO2 levels began rising after the Industrial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel