Agricultural Business Parks - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 1995 (Revised November 1995)
Case

DJF Farms

Keywords: Family Business; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with the team, his reminiscences are captivating. Baer’s career in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice

money supply than the visible money stock like bank notes or specie. 7 The account books of small-time storekeepers show how common credit purchases were, particularly in agricultural or frontier regions. Farmers, for example, were seldom... 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

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
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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 Jun 2014
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Feedback

from Nigeria's agriculture minister. No Small Beer Re: Alumni brewers You omitted Peter Doering (MBA 1987), a local HBS alumnus, who started a brewery about 15 months ago. We did an HBS alumni club event at his brewery recently, and it... View Details

19 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio equipment; fashion; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Apr 2014
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Helping smallholder farmers feed the world

Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) doesn’t want to just alleviate global hunger and poverty. He wants to eradicate these problems. That has been his focus since 2010, when he became president and CEO of Heifer International, the Little Rock, Arkansas-based nonprofit that... 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

25 Aug 2022
News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

is conducted at the School. The labs will drive foundational and applied research in six topical areas that address key business and societal challenges of the new digital world. Faculty members from across Harvard, serving as principal... View Details

October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
Case

DJF Farms 1996

By: Ray A. Goldberg and David Ehlis

Keywords: Family Business; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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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

29 Apr 2019
News

A Global Mission

countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated humanitarian crises. His first project was in Bangladesh in the 1970s, when he led a project on View Details

14 Jan 2014
News

Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because... View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England, an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome barriers to increased local food... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

cyber-insurance market: As claims pour in for losses due to everything from business disruptions to extortion, major carriers are raising premiums and reducing coverage. Not everyone is retrenching, however. In 2021, cyber-insurance... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

25 Mar 2022
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2022

emerging. The impacts of the climate crisis are already being felt as the world experiences more frequent extreme weather events, with substantial coastal, urban, and agricultural assets at risk. Climate change is a crucial driver of... View Details

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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

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