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- 11 May 2021
- News
Pitching to Win
the five grand-prize winners. Goble is co-founder of Karivez Bio, a platform for transforming chronic disease treatment through improved drug delivery. Okrah is founder and CEO of Chaku Foods, a fast-moving consumer goods company based in Ghana, West Africa, that uses... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
television, and sports.” Deighton examines three classic ages of marketing by contrasting the strategies of the publishing industry, James Patterson, and book clubs. In 19th-century agricultural marketing, farmers transported their crops... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
malls, schools, agricultural equipment, and airports. Noting that Homestrings will expand soon to Asia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and China, with plans for Latin America and the Caribbean on the horizon, Guichard says, “We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
that kind of one-sided knowledge. The Farmers Business Network (FBN), cofounded by Baron, agriculture investor and entrepreneur Amol Deshpande, and several farmers, has emerged in a period of particular crisis for the American farmer.... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
and long-term value creation. In addition to this, he is cofounder and chairman of Voxtra, a social impact investment firm that focuses on improving the livelihoods of those in the agriculture sector in East Africa. He and his wife,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping smallholder farmers feed the world
Pierre Ferrari (MBA 1976) doesn’t want to just alleviate global hunger and poverty. He wants to eradicate these problems. That has been his focus since 2010, when he became president and CEO of Heifer International, the Little Rock, Arkansas-based nonprofit that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
dominance versus global or Western engagement. The regime’s sober assessment tipped the choice for negotiated political reconciliation, global engagement, and democratic economic governance. Nigeria is moving away from oil, and View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
housing in the public realm, as well as just running as efficiently as we can. “I spent the last 10 years before Habitat working on rural poverty and rural hunger, which largely centers on agricultural development. Most of the poorest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details
- 06 Nov 2020
- News
Signal Boost
organizations in western Michigan, sprang up when the area—once largely white—began to undergo a significant demographic change. Latino migrants and immigrants began to move into the area for agricultural jobs. “LEDA, initially, was... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is CEO of PAMU Farms of New Zealand (formerly Landcorp Farming). In this video, he talks about the changes the organization is going through to adjust for shifting dietary trends and the impact of large-scale farming on the environment. “PAMU... 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
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated humanitarian crises. His first project was in Bangladesh in the 1970s, when he led a project on agricultural restoration after... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
afraid that mass-produced supermarket food is excessively processed, tainted with antibiotic residues and hormones, and lacking important nutrients. But public-health and agriculture regulators say no: Americans have no inherent right to... View Details
- 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 part: “What I disliked were all... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- News
A Start-Up Turns to Saffron to Help Afghanistan Regrow
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of it.” In describing that sense of accomplishment, Ruhr could well be speaking about the early years of her own career, which was born in Professor Ray A. Goldberg’s View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
collect — may sicken or even kill them. The ocean-dominated Earth is indeed the “blue planet,” but only 1 percent of its water, the equivalent of one tablespoonful in a gallon, is fresh and accessible. Agriculture and industry are thirsty... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
legacy by promoting economic development. Past experience in the construction and coffee industries and former postings as Colombia’s ambassador to West Germany, and CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Colombia, convinced Ospina that South... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
consumption of local, sustainably produced food.” That mission was inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England (FSNE), an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots... View Details