Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?

and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941)... View Details

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December 1997
Case

Bluewater Aquaculture

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay

An entrepreneurial shrimp farm in Belize is evaluating its future growth strategy in every segment of the vertical value-added food chain. View Details

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Performance Evaluation; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Food and Beverage Industry

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21 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

not occur in non-election years, or in private bank lending. I show capture is costly: elections affect loan repayment, and election year credit booms do not measurably affect agricultural output. Download... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2017
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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... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

April 1982 (Revised March 1986)
Case

Standard Fruit Co. in Nicaragua (B)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nicaragua

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May 1979
Case

Hesston Corp. (Consolidated)

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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February 2004
Teaching Note

ABS Global (TN)

By: David E. Bell

Teaching Note to (9-504-053). View Details

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Australia

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January 1995
Teaching Note

Ocean Spray Cranberries: Environmental Risk Management TN

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Teaching Note for (9-794-088). View Details

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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November 1989
Case

Colly Farms Cotton Ltd. (B)

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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November 1989 (Revised December 1989)
Case

Pandol Brothers, Inc.: From Grape Farm to Trade Giant

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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October 1987 (Revised January 1990)
Case

Colly Farms Cotton Ltd. (A)

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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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 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

Keywords: Susan Young; Agriculture; Agriculture

01 Dec 2019
News

Case Study: Farming It Out

photo courtesy of Charlie Andersen Charlie Andersen (MBA 2014) grew up on a 200-acre organic family farm west of Philadelphia that produced everything from apples and blueberries to sweet corn. Andersen absolutely loved it—for the most... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

2009
Simulation

Finance Simulation: M&A in Wine Country (Facilitator's Guide)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, W. Carl Kester and Heide Diener Abelli

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation; Valuation; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

Chirchirillo, “It’s a game-changer. Now we can go from print-to-part faster than anyone in the world.” The coin of the realm: The intricate patterns of metal stampings form the innards of component parts for a variety of manufactured products in a range of View Details