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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment
of nitrogen-based fertilizers and clearing of forests for agricultural uses, have also increased greenhouse gas emissions. Food and agriculture is the second largest contributor to climate change. [26] This sector is also especially... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
230 million in revenue, 82 employees, and operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds, while purchasing, aggregating, and reselling their outputs. Led by... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds, while purchasing, aggregating, and reselling their outputs. Led by CEO Mathias Eisert, Polish Agro had also ventured into biofertilizers,... View Details
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
planters in the local Montgomery area. Mayer’s son Herbert H. Lehman remembered, “It was largely a barter agreement. The farmers would come in with their cotton and trade it for shirts and shoes and fertilizer . . . and seed, and all the... View Details
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November 2024 | Case | Faculty Research By July 2024, Polish Agro had grown into one of Poland’s fastest-growing agribusinesses, with 230 million in revenue, 82 employees, and operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
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Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
What if more managers at big corporations channeled some of the same magic that helped Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lead their startups to great success? Large companies are actually fertile ground for innovation;... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
orbitz), which through the strength of its relationships with airline and hotel partners, will offer a wide range of travel-related services. Business Track, 2004 Extend Fertility Christy Jones Yu-jin Kim Laetitia Pichot Nadia Campbell... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
profitability and poverty eradication targets. [The late] C.K. Prahalad has noted that some of the most breakthrough business strategies, models, processes, and ways of organizing have come from teams building profitable businesses directed at those economically less... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
TV, cable programming—but is still trying to figure out the best strategy for integrating them. Despite repeated structural changes, employees still operate in silos. In short, the National Geographic case is fertile learning ground for... View Details
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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Kramer, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo, and Kerry Herman Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
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Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
the last major consumer packaged goods advertiser to stay with a 15 percent fee, is moving in this new direction. It is sometimes a pragmatic pathway to managing risk, uncertainty, and performance for the long-term benefit of both parties. Advertising has been a View Details
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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
thinking. Profits involving a social purpose represent a higher form of capitalism—one that will enable society to advance more rapidly while allowing companies to grow even more. The result is a positive cycle of company and community prosperity, which leads to... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
digital age is a fertile area of his research. Luca is looking at rankings, expert evaluations, online consumer reviews, and quality disclosure laws to see how they work in market settings, and which are most important for consumers. To... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Business Development at SunPower. Chrissy Kahn (MBA 2023, Section J), Summer Internship: Strategy Intern at Montauk Seaweed Supply Company Montauk Seaweed Supply Company is a start-up working to transform New England-area farmed seaweed into sustainable View Details
- 07 May 2020
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The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
the James Dinan and Elizabeth Miller Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Alberto Galasso is a professor at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. [Image: FilippoBacc] Related Reading Product Disasters Can Be View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
operated this way or felt this way. Many are relieved to hear the condition has a name." Harvard is fertile ground for HNAPs, too. DeLong plans to make his book required reading in the second year courses on Authentic Leadership and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
standards). But the corporate auditing arena is a particularly fertile ground for self-serving biases. Three structural aspects of accounting create substantial opportunities for bias to influence judgment. Ambiguity. Bias thrives... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
you will, for an alternative to the high-yield, soil-depleting cycle of tilling, pesticides, and fertilization that could ultimately endanger the planet’s ability to grow enough food for its people. Through gardens planted with heirloom... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
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10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
moving target, potential customers are wary of costs and implementation complexities, and use cases, while powerful, are still lacking in many areas. Take advantage of uncertainty All this uncertainty is a fertile breeding ground for... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 27 Feb 2006
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When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
BA-ROFR. Why are these agreements a fertile ground for your research? Alvin Roth: We noticed those because they are unusual, and because they appear to be mistakes. Sometimes you get increased insight into how something—in this case a... View Details