Animal Production and Aquaculture - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

establish associations with the correct partners in the absence of signaling. Several types of biological symbioses are good candidates for screening, including bobtail squid, ant-plants, gut microbiomes, and many View Details

03 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 3

profitability. Using a sample of 42,337 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that corporate profitability mean reverts faster in countries where product and capital markets are more competitive. Moreover,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

conflict, and trial and error to advantage. At Pixar, for example, the company was caught up short in 2008 in a clash over production schedules for the movie Up View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

that casks of whiskey and farm animals were "branded"—or seared—with some kind of mark to identify ownership, she pointed out, the word didn't take on its current commercial connotation until the... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

framework for the field in their book A Concept of Agribusiness. That seminal work traces a complex value-added chain that begins with the farmer's purchase of seed and livestock and ends with a View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

"as part of a small team building a new company ... the time we spend together (as opposed to the day per week that she and her colleagues telecommute) ... is the most valuable." Jack Downey makes the case for the doubters:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Steiner, executive vice-president of commercial acceptance, must decide if the situation in Brazil is stable enough to support a significant increase in breeding and biotech spending to develop products... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

pharmacists did, their cut-rate prices on popular brand-name packaged goods posed a major threat to mom-and-pop businesses like Gleason’s. So she and other traditional retailers began arguing that pineboards practiced predatory pricing,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

engineers, for example, brought in anthropologists to help them design copiers that were more user-friendly. And Genzyme leavened the impact of the lawyers on its regulatory team with a sprinkling of scientists View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

serious leaders are men and women who are animated by a big, honorable mission, who get things done to achieve that mission, who demonstrate consistent emotional awareness as they do this, who motivate... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

to make the $3.5 million Roadside Romeo. The first-of-its-kind animated Hindi movie barely broke even. All told, Hollywood studios invested an estimated $100 million on producing films in India between 2007 View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

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