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- May 2009
- Case
Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products
By: John H. McArthur and Sunru Yong
Ceres is a leading player in the growing organic gardening industry, selling seeds, small plants, and related items. Their distribution depends heavily on retail sales through independent nurseries and garden centers. Because these small dealers are unable to finance... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Procedures; Marketing; Business Growth; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Marketing Channels; Credit; Financial Statements; Sales; Retail Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
McArthur, John H., and Sunru Yong. "Ceres Gardening Company: Funding Growth in Organic Products." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-017, May 2009.
- September 12, 2022
- Article
Merit or Inherit: How to Approach Succession in a Family Business
By: Josh Baron
One of the most critical questions facing family businesses is how to treat the next generation. They are clearly different from other employees, as current or potential owners of the company, whose wealth and reputation are on the line. On the flip side, most parents... View Details
Baron, Josh. "Merit or Inherit: How to Approach Succession in a Family Business." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 12, 2022).
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Moss Kanter: Silos, Cronies, and the Business Monarchy When organizations are structured into narrow territories that reinforce “silos” or “cells,” that can be harmful in several ways. Under such conditions, individuals in the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Five Must-Read Harvard Business Review Articles
- Fast Answer
Cost of doing business
guides providing information on the local legal and business context, including costs. Site Selection Magazine: Expansion planning information via state, country, industry and trend reports, project profiles and economic development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest
The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
ensuring the physical well-being of the library’s priceless treasure of business books and records. “No other business school has a historical collection to rival HBS,”... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
protecting Adirondack parks, improving fishing practices—in his new book, Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature, coauthored by conservation biologist Jonathan S. Adams. One of TNC's strategies, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
Barry Johnson (MBA ’89) has over 20 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and corporate executive with media giants such as the Walt Disney Company, Bertelsmann, and Sony Music Corporation. With expertise in public-private... View Details
- 29 Aug 2022
- News
Harvard Business School Announces 2022 Goldsmith Fellows
- 05 Aug 2020
- News
Rethink How You Do Business in Order to Keep Being Innovative
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Tank. Dressed in a bright pink Coffee Meets Bagel T-shirt under a black business jacket, Kang pitched the San Francisco startup to five investors including Mark Cuban. The sisters were looking for $500,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Feb 2015
- News
Should Harvard Business School Hit Refresh?
- 18 Oct 2012
- HBS Seminar
Julie Battilana, Harvard Business School
- 10 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Combining an Interest in Music and Business
The first thing most people think of when they hear “Harvard Business School” is most certainly not “arts” or “music”. I mean, that’s what music school is for, right? To be honest, when I decided View Details
- Article
Does Global Business Have a Responsibility to Promote Just Institutions?
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Keywords: Business Ventures
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Does Global Business Have a Responsibility to Promote Just Institutions?" Business Ethics Quarterly 19, no. 2 (April 2009): 251–273.
- August 2006 (Revised July 2007)
- Background Note
Governance of the Family Business Owners
By: John A. Davis
Reviews the principal ways in which the owners of a family business achieve their governance objectives of a suitable identity and sensible direction and the discipline to achieve these. Covers the responsibilities and rights of owners, plus governance procedures,... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Goals and Objectives; Family Ownership
Davis, John A. "Governance of the Family Business Owners." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-021, August 2006. (Revised July 2007.)
- 28 Feb 2014
- News