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  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with understanding La Fageda's business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

industries by virtue of his efficiencies in agricultural production and in downstream logistics. He now needs to consider whether, and how aggressively, to expand abroad, either with production facilities or by exporting Brazilian output.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Rescue & Recovery

like Cisco, Microsoft, and Airbnb to scale their impact. Since its programs are driven by local needs across 40 geographies, they run the gamut, from agriculture and financial inclusion to food security, market development, policy, and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312054-PDF-ENG Gracious Eloise: What Do Angels Want? (B) Lena G. Goldberg, Janet Kraus, and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard Business School Supplement 312-055 Having received an extensive critique of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Ginger Jin, of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, is just one example. They invited regulatory officials from several leading federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

global marketplace, we have done extensive research and found that names can play an enormous role in a product's success. Teams Have Changed: Catching Up to the Future Authors:Heidi K. Gardner, Ruth Wageman, and Mark Mortensen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

exporter, had thus far avoided public scrutiny. The company was a key source of employment in many rural communities, had extensive experience negotiating the complex Indonesian regulatory environment, and was moving to certify its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically connected firms with more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Wheat Pool 2005 Harvard Business School Case 906-402 CEO Mayo Schmidt had just guided his firm through five difficult years. Survival had come with the difficult decision to change the 80-year-old agricultural cooperative into a Canadian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

rationale behind it. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311086-PDF-ENG Claude Grunitzky Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 412-065 Claude Grunitzky, a media entrepreneur, develops, maintains, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

is comprised of an extensive collection of Harvard Business School cases devoted to information technology. Learning (Not) to Talk About Race: When Older Children Underperform in Social Categorization Authors:Evan P. Apfelbaum, Kristin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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advantageous supplier deals for her tiny farm with a vindictive Walmart enroute to building an agricultural empire; Bruce Wasserstein negotiates to take Lazard public, etc. In diplomacy : Christiana Figueres guides the Paris climate talks... View Details