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- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
food waste away from landfills by upcycling it into high-value sugar polymers using a combination of insects and microbial cell factories. PARTICIPANTS Algoma Homes - Josef Bromovsky (MBA 2023) - Algoma Homes designs and builds net-zero... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
critical links in many global supply chains, particularly on the upstream supply end, so the group of 12 HBS faculty members and a colleague from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences visited companies that deal in View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
sells nearly 2 million vehicles per year in India and other developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. "Given my family background, I knew I wanted to be a businessman by the time I was about 12," says Bajaj. His grandfather had bought a steel... View Details
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
carries a variety of healthy items and foods from “home” such as their famous fresh sugar cane juice. Casabe’s impact potential spans three areas: first, increasing income and wealth creation for the BIPOC community; second, supporting... View Details
- Web
Finalists | New Venture Competition
is a SaaS tool that enables companies in the building industry to quantify and reduce emissions in their value chain. PolyoseBio Makari Krause (MBA 2023) Amin Espah Borujeni PolyoseBio is working to divert food waste away from landfills by upcycling it into high-value... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil; it is also the world's largest exporter of ethanol for vehicle fuels. Rubens Ometto, Cosan's CEO, has staked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
imagine it. On Election Day, Brand Trump will mean different things to different people but that doesn't matter if he gets their votes. Imagine you are looking at a box of Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes. Clinton would prefer you read the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
it. "We have the medical knowledge to do it. And it's not being done. Just under one-half of identified diabetics in this country don't have their blood sugar under control," she said. Diabetes manifests as Type I or Type II... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
twenty-year federal pollution suit against sugar growers and a $7.8 billion bill signed by President Clinton, the project, said to be the most ambitious such effort in U.S. history, involves buying land around the Everglades and undoing... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
Rebaudioside A (Reb A), a natural and calorie-free product that a young company named PureCircie manufactured from the Stevia plant, could be used in beverages, foods, and as a table top sweetener in the U.S.—the largest market for sugar... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
or more mindful drinking is bigger than just Vanessa and myself. So we said, let’s see if we can create a product that actually serves that market.” After a lot of trial and error, Tilden launched a line of non-alcoholic cocktails in three different flavor profiles,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
Special treat: A Parisian pear tart with ice cream. “A sweet tooth is just one tooth. I have a sugar mouth.” Good times: Listening to music, playing piano and guitar, dancing with family and friends. “I like musicians such as Angélique... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
terrifying and morale-destroying experience. In addition to maintaining physical health, diet has a strong effect on intellectual and emotional functioning (as anyone who has seen a toddler melt down from too much sugar understands). The... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can grow microalgae to produce... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can grow microalgae to produce... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
In October 2013, Colgate-Palmolive Company, the world's leading oral care company, was about to launch its new Colgate® Maximum Cavity Protection plus Sugar Acid Neutralizer toothpaste in Brazil. The oral care category accounted for 46%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
bacteria, previous attempts to manufacture it at industrial scale were stymied by the need for expensive feedstocks such as sugar and seed oils. Full Cycle, however, coaxes microbes to make PHA from organic waste—banana peels, newspapers,... 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
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
blood sugar but also seamlessly transmit it to their physician or nurse for appropriate feedback on diet, nutrition and medication. Eventually the platform can be extended to measure other parameters such as HbA1c, Ketones and Hemoglobin,... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
competitive challenges facing software companies. Their market success depends largely on persuading the above-mentioned developers to write for their platforms. A new research paper suggests that the two sides can serve their own best interests by meeting with little... View Details