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- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
purely economic perspective—turning off the carbon-based energy production and building wind farms and solar farms can save people money,” he explains. But he saw that, in many of those places, the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Veronica Pinchin
I learned about hard work from my father, who learned about it from his. For 70 years, Vic Pinchin worked the land on his farm in Streetsville, Ontario. Over the years, seasons of lifting bushels of apples onto his rusty trailer bent his... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
runs a school, a small farm and greenhouse, a pharmacy, and a shrimp farm—all of which are intended to give the children an education, vocational skills, and food. “The opportunity to help people makes me... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Eventually there's an alternative economy of people who trust each other." The Village Promoter program, spearheaded by Masha, grew this way, eventually reaching about 58,000 small farmers. Overall, Notore's products and activities have... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
largest open-field tomato farm in the country. For Mehta, the path to these 25 irrigated hectares, located 45 minutes outside Kaduna, Nigeria, began in 2008, when she was working on HIV issues in the country on behalf of the Clinton... View Details
- 09 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Learning from Classmates at HBS
I grew up on a farm in a small town outside of Lexington, Kentucky before attending the University of Illinois where I majored in finance. After college, I moved to Chicago where I worked in consulting and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Senior Lecturer José Alvarez visited wheat fields at a farm owned and run by the Duhau Group in Argentina’s Pampa region. The company was the subject of a case Alvarez wrote, which he taught in the Agribusiness Seminar in 2019. (photo by... View Details
- Profile
Mark Gundersen
experience absolutely made me come alive. I spent most of the summer analyzing financials and modeling loans. Then one afternoon, I got a chance to meet the people we were making loans to. A farmer wearing a 'World's Best Dad' T-shirt told me he was growing his View Details
- Profile
Scott Daubin
has experience on a chicken farm?' I thought he was joking, but three hands shot up! One guy was an Army Ranger who helped build a farm in Iraq. Another was an Argentinean student who had worked on his family farm. The experience was... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
spotted around the world and on its oceans. Suddenly, heavy-industry giants including Mitsubishi, Siemens, and ultimately General Electric were competing to build more efficient wind farm turbines against the much smaller incumbents such... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
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Joe Stenger
Earth. You’re surrounded by the most accomplished, yet humble, people in the world. Because of them, each night I go to bed believing that anything is possible. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? When I was 9 years old, I was riding my four-wheeler on... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) as they make headway on an exciting development project in central Detroit. They’re a small non-profit on a mission to make healthy and fresh foods available to everyday Detroiters,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
these small villages, Poindexter has seen both simple inconveniences and economic hardship that result from the lack of power. Although cocoa farming, which is prevalent in the region where Energicity launched, doesn’t require... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
sent to a friend who owed him money—in this homemade account book from 1673 to 1693. The book, bound in rawhide and sewn with linen thread, chronicles the family’s activity in farming and household management as well as shoemaking. Jacob... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
with the strong backing of Dean George P. Baker. The Road to Someplace Better charts Lambert’s life from her humble upbringing on a Virginia farm (which didn’t get electricity until she was eight) to her founding of Centennial One Inc., a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
compounds, which in turn affect a wine’s astringency, color, and mouthfeel. “After so many years farming on the same property, we have learned which areas are most likely to yield the best fruit,” she says. As the vineyard enters its 48th... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 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