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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
enough rookies coming up — like Smarty Jones — to keep our roster competitive.” Clay maintains a level-headed outlook in an industry known for big wins and even bigger losses. “The person who buys a horse... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
she herself is an organic farmer, Reade is not here to sell the blueberries, asparagus, beef, or lamb she raises at Neptune Farm. She’s here to support the other farmers, and they are here, in large part, because of her. Reade organized... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
is developing technology to cool the eggs and make them available on demand. “We’re basically turning fish eggs into seeds you can plant anytime and use whenever you want,” says CEO Dmitry Kozachenok (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
Nova Scotia native Greg Murray divides his time between a town house in Halifax’s city center and Athol Farms, a 400-acre cattle ranch on the Northumberland Strait. A longtime entrepreneur, his latest venture, the Clean Air & Water... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
products with various levels of cost and provider choice. Its impressive organic growth also has many lessons on how to train and evaluate people. Modeled after HBS professor emeritus Ray Goldberg's highly... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
in New Zealand, and I really grew to love the industry, the profession, and the trade. It just seems very real to me. It also has a direct connection with people. Every day, they're eating or they're touched... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
the ultimate answer is what some people call ocean zoning. Just as we have zones for people and buildings and other zones for nature, I think we need to do something similar in the sea to allow fish habitats... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
invest in the women who make the industry run. Each brightly colored bag of Kahawa 1893 features a prominent QR code that allows purchasers to give to the women behind the beans. “People have been very receptive to the idea,” says... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
lunch, and dinner. And our prices are pretty low, so a lot of people would talk about our industry as fast casual. Some of the things that are so different about Clover is our... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A "Growing" Online Community
(MBA '99), aims to help farmers pool their orders so they can make bulk purchases at lower costs. "Everyone thinks that farmers are unsophisticated and have no ideas," Grippo said in the January 5 article "Online View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
dominate almost every industry that touches people. Food, supplements, personal care — we have to be at the table to talk about what ‘natural’ means. Many consumers assume it means safe, but that’s not necessarily true. Our products are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
Deighton observes that most students would agree that Patterson needs to broaden his reader base, and that the publishing industry should get away from the agricultural or... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Reinhardt is currently studying the relationships between business behavior and environmental quality, particularly in the energy industry and the food View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
the 21st century. “Africapitalism calls on the private sector to make long-term investment in industries that can create economic prosperity and social wealth.” The idea was inspired by Professor Michael... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Apr 2013
- News
Tapped In
resource his company harvests from pine trees. But he can offer a brief history: resin-harvesting is a millenarian tradition, mentioned in the Bible; it was a foundational industry for colonial America; and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
transition from the industrial era to the information/high-technology frontier presage a new era of prosperity, analogous to our transition from an agricultural to an View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural methods and educate others about indigenous culture—the seed, if you will, for an alternative to the high-yield, soil-depleting cycle of tilling,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
Illustration by Chris Philpot Hobbyist drones might make headlines with their crashes on the White House lawn, but the market for unmanned vehicles is rapidly expanding beyond the niche: Over the next decade, according to industry trade... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
course the lobster industry tried it, but in less than two years, the traps rusted and the welds broke. Our customers came back, because they realized cheaper wasn’t better.” Equipment that automates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
assumed after World War II that we’d never have thermonuclear war. What do people in the oil industry think about your book? I’ve heard criticism that it’s preposterous we have any problems. We’ve been doing this for 70 years, View Details