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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
organizations. Massachusetts, for example, has a program to buy development rights on agricultural lands. This ensures that farming will always have a place in the state. However, it takes up to three years for a project to be completed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
The path from the rural South to the upper echelons of Wall Street is not heavily traveled. Indeed, E. Stanley O’Neal (MBA ’78) is surely the only person who has made the journey from the fields of Wedowee, Alabama — where he labored on his grandfather’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A wild ride from adventure travel to social media marketing
she sold asparagus on her family farm as a child in New Zealand, and started an adventure travel company prior to HBS, Ransom didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. With Wildfire, she saw a need and was willing to put in the hard work and... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
for school, to set him on his way. Deploying what he learned at HBS, Magwegwe set up Inspire Belief to give young people in the poor community of Orange Farm the opportunity to get a secondary or tertiary education. The program provides... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar programs. (Published December 2015) View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
coffee in this area. How coffee is farmed has an important impact on the environment. CI recognizes the need in this situation for an environmental strategy, without ignoring economic realities for the families who live in these areas.... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Living and Learning in a Local Context
sustainability and farm work. We bring thousands of students from all over the world on three- to five-day courses and retreats to learn about how humans impact the earth. We have lots of adult workshops. We run an early-childhood program... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
Despite New England’s long traditions of farming and fishing, only an estimated 5–10 percent of the food consumed in the region is actually produced there. That’s a fact Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is working hard to change. “At least 50... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
sustainable agricultural practices like no-till farming and polyculture—in other words, the same practices used by indigenous cultures and promoted by Sacred Seed through gardens like the one at the Tri-Faith Initiative. Growing food on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
the world. (photo courtesy of Rich Wilson) Good morning, from the Pacific Ocean! #VG2016 #sitesALIVE Cited “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
Above: photo by John Loomis About 80 percent of Frans Kok’s (MBA 1972) cut-your-own customers make the trek to the Middleburg Christmas Tree Farm in Philomont, Virginia, during the two weeks after Thanksgiving. After bumping down the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
Molloy, who grew up on a dairy farm in County Offaly. “We hold our storytellers up as heroes. And being able to tell a good story helps you connect with people.” Grit and gratitude are two other Irish traits, she adds, conceding that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
At the other end of the supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
worked one week on, one week off, and in the case of our poultry farm, slept on the farm for days at a stretch to improve biosecurity. It took quite a bit of commitment to distribute food and products across the country, and so many went... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
alternative to get into the construction business. Because I used to see my brothers, they worked so hard day after day. And I had a chance at 12 years old to work on a racehorse farm in New Jersey. I think at that point I really felt... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Chaku Foods Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021), CEO and Founder Concept: A snack-food company in Okrah’s native Ghana that is building farming supply chain infrastructure for other consumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
ahead,” he says of the iconic brand. “What’s important to me is the satisfaction of seeing an organization that has been failing for years become a great place to work, from the shop floor all the way on up, and produce a great result for shareholders.” First job:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
included exploring the potential for ecotourism, organizing a women’s farming collective, and coordinating efforts to save crops from raids by elephants. He enjoyed the experience so much that he extended his term by a year to help a... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because... View Details