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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
which depends on the merging of breakthrough scientific ideas and great business leadership," said Dean Nitin Nohria. By focusing on technologies that have great potential to impact human lives and by enabling View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details
- 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
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918
By: Lakshmi Iyer and Noel Maurer
We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Rights; Property; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Philippines
Iyer, Lakshmi, and Noel Maurer. "The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-023, August 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
- Profile
Eryn Schultz
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I’m really experiencing the strength of the HBS network. In college, I wrote a business plan for a healthy school-lunch program and have been interested in food-access issues... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
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Israel - Global Activities 2021
and nutrients directly to the root zones of plants and the slow flow ensures uniform delivery. “Water is scarce here,” says Danielle Golan, assistant director of the Israel Research Office, who worked with Reinhardt, the John D. Black Professor of View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
required to accomplish such a planned massive expansion, from yet-to-be hit rural areas to overwhelmed urban health systems. As leaders consider how to tackle the task, they might look at the Harvard Business School case study of... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
business when I was only 27.” Batten is a visionary entrepreneur and business leader who built Landmark Communications, Inc., based in Norfolk, Virginia, into a multimedia enterprise consisting of dozens of... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 11 Dec 2014
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Leadership Lessons from the 2010 Chilean Mine Rescue
Professor Edmondson will explore teaming as a dynamic response to the demands of knowledge intensive businesses. Organizations that do it well have a competitive advantage, because teaming is how organizations learn how they anticipate and respond to shifts in the... View Details
- 09 Feb 2011
- News
Still Shining through Florida's Clouds
developer of planned communities in the Ft. Myers-Naples area. Despite tough going for his firm, “Lucas’s reputation in business circles remains untarnished” and “few people are as influential” in southwest Florida, according to the Gulf... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
- Case
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Describes the structure and evolution of the earth moving equipment industry worldwide in the post war era, particularly focusing on developments in the 1960s and 1970s. Describes Caterpillar's strategy in becoming the dominant worldwide competitor (industry market... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Caterpillar Tractor Co." Harvard Business School Case 385-276, February 1985. (Revised September 1988.)
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
last century: energy and infrastructure; agricultural commodities and food products; and natural resources, to name a few.” Kuhns is particularly bullish on China’s hydroelectric power potential. It’s a View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Chicago
business and the environment. Email bei@hbs.edu to learn more about upcoming events. On April 2nd, BEI partnered with the HBS Club of Chicago to bring together alumni dedicated to making an impact on climate change with their careers.... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
the high-tech group, and spend time with family. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/913420-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-406 Nestlé: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
professional day writing, with the rest devoted to business and charitable pursuits. In addition to his other books, Barron's abiding interest in the outdoors has resulted in two nature books, one about the history of the Rocky Mountain... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
take-charge author, the publishing industry, and the business of book clubs to analyze the success of various modes of marketing. Patterson, a former chairman of J. Walter Thompson, published his first mystery novel in 1976 and made... View Details
- November 2022
- Case
Chêne Bleu: Caught in the Trade Tariff Crossfire
By: Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Daniela Beyersdorfer
A French wine estate faced a 25% tariff on its U.S. exports following a multi-decade-long EU-U.S. trade dispute in the aerospace industry. View Details
Keywords: Trade; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Expansion; Family Business; Distribution; Agribusiness; Taxation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; France; United States; Europe
Roscini, Dante, Elena Corsi, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Chêne Bleu: Caught in the Trade Tariff Crossfire." Harvard Business School Case 723-020, November 2022.