Grain - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

offer for the company. Yet the company, and its workers, formed the grain of an idea that began to grow in Viana’s mind. “Jeannette, for me, became a double mission, the first being to save the company,” he says. Just past 50, with a full... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby, which borders Vancouver on the... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

fee for those soybeans grown with illegal seed. Although there were initial concerns by farmers and grain companies—who collected the fee on Monsanto's behalf—the system worked smoothly, with over 97 percent of the farmers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

death in a quantity equivalent to two grains of salt, has become a major factor contributing to the spike in overdoses. Last year, recognizing the fast-moving and shapeshifting nature of these and other alarming developments, Langford... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

Business School Case 511-088 This case describes the international expansion plans of the second largest grain producer in Latin America, Los Grobo. Based in Argentina with US$550 million in annual sales, Los Grobo also operated in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

to package the maize. Masha's company warehouses the grain at the end of the process, commoditizes it, and sells it to food conglomerates like Nestlé, which uses it to make baby food and breakfast cereal sold in Nigeria and abroad. Babban... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Grain Management (David Grain) IGNIA Partners (Álvaro Rodriguez) Individual Foodservice (Ken Sweder) Innova Capital (Andrzej Bartos and Krzysztof Kulig) Interline (Mike Grebe) Johnson Media (Kevin D. Johnson) KKR (Raj Agrawal, Joseph Bae,... View Details

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