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- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Bayer Crop Science
By: David E. Bell, Michael Norris and Mel Martin
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 520-055. View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
A FEEL-GOOD HIGH: Founder Sarah Endline with sweetriot’s tiny treats. As a girl in Auburn, Michigan, a small town two hours north of Detroit, Sarah Endline (MBA 2001) grew up with a clear understanding of the link between crops in the field and food on the table. It’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
organizations. Massachusetts, for example, has a program to buy development rights on agricultural lands. This ensures that farming will always have a place in the state. However, it takes up to three years for a project to be completed... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture
- Web
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
- 09 Sep 2013
- News
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
case outlines the decisions Rollins took in terms of leadership and other strategic matters and shows how the center is performing a year after its initial disappointing progress. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412098-PDF-ENG The IPO of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
23-45 billion gallons of gasoline. Sufficient biomass, mainly agricultural and mill residues, will be available at prices of around $50/ton to meet the advanced biofuel mandates of the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
energies toward. This year you’ll be co-president of the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. What motivated you to pursue this role? What goals do you have as co-president? I think to the broader HBS population, careers today in food and View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
transfer increases labor productivity and wages directly. The interesting thing about China and also India is that about half of their populations are still employed in the agricultural sector. In this scenario, technology transfer may... View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
interested in sustainability and the environment will find plenty of company on campus. In addition to becoming Student Sustainability Associates, students can join three clubs (the Energy and Environment Club; the Food and Agriculture... View Details
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture - which drives nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions - is a great place to start. Our global... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
change, stick to your guns and seek out companies and opportunities where you can play a role in protecting the planet. Food and agriculture - which drives nearly a third of greenhouse gas emissions - is a great place to start. Our global... View Details
- 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
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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
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
included plans to release a new line of sustainable merino wool socks. On a larger scale, Henderson says that Unilever has garnered good press with its plans to use only sustainably sourced agricultural raw materials by 2020 (see her case... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
support his family. He heard about the I Create program and signed up. Having noticed a growth in agriculture in the region, Samad was intent on finding his niche in the industry. After conducting market research and consulting with a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Services Division to support over 8,000 agricultural producers. CEO and Chairman Aldo Navilli, who had run the company since 1986 and had developed its management system, wanted to ensure that as the company grew and expanded, it would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne