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- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
found six managerial barriers that hindered communication from lower levels getting to the top, among them ineffectiveness of the leadership team. “Unvarnished employee and stakeholder feedback is key in uncovering those barriers so that change in them will create the... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
business training to evaluate technologies that challenge the conventions of discovering, producing, and consuming the materials and resources that drive our everyday lives. This includes mining and refining precious metals and magnets, generating and storing... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
correctly, and adjust the amount of fertilizer they use accordingly. “It’s so accurate, you can make these decisions on a plant-by-plant basis,” Lal says. In transportation, meanwhile, companies are selling everything from jet engines to... View Details
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa
technologies and business models for consumption and production.” Based in Morocco, the OCP Group – one of the world’s leading producers of phosphate-based fertilizers – has been at the forefront of innovations to sustainably grow... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Delivering Trust
Illustration by Marcos Chin Illustration by Marcos Chin When they married, Deborah and Jake Anderson (MBA 2010) knew that they might have difficulty starting a family due to a preexisting medical condition. They began consulting with View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
Paris Wallace
School. In 2021 Paris sold Ovia Health to Labcorp (LH). Paris was the CEO and founder of Ovia Health, the leading women’s health and technology company. Ovia Health's fertility, pregnancy, and parenting programs helped over 20 million families and improved obstetric... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
wish not to see, she said. "We have a business that doesn't feel like a business," said Spar. "Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization." Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
“We have a business that doesn’t feel like a business,” she noted. “Nobody wants to acknowledge the extent of commercialization.” Yet Americans alone spent $2.7 billion on fertility treatments in 2002. Procedures such as egg and sperm... View Details
- Profile
Paris Wallace
measuring self-reported health data regarding everything from diet to details of the menstrual cycle, the app guides a women through the fertility progression and helps many women conceive far more quickly. According to Wallace, the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Giving women more control over their biological clocks
Reproductive technology pioneer Christy Jones (MBA 2004) founded Extend Fertility in 2004 to enable women to freeze their eggs and then utilize them when the time is right. (Published November 2014) View Details
Ian K. MacGregor
Assigned to handle arms purchases for the British government, MacGregor came to the U.S. during World War II. Sensing a fertile climate for business, MacGregor stayed in the U.S. after the war and became the CEO of American Metal. Through... View Details
Keywords: Metals
Horace Bowker
Bowker took the helm of American Agricultural Chemical during a bleak period in America’s economy. Despite the Depression, Bowker led the company to double its profitability during the 1930’s by diversifying beyond fertilizers and into... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 19 Apr 2016
- News
LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility
Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization... View Details
John R. Simplot
utilized government funding to build a fertilizer empire, gaining 15% of the market in 1968. Simplot’s other achievements included the creation of processes to de-hydrate potatoes and freeze dry french fries, the latter of which earned... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had controlled the... View Details
- 03 Apr 2016
- News
The Tampon of the Future
2009), an entrepreneur with an engineering background. “I was trying to develop a way for women to monitor their own fertility at home,” she told the New York Times recently. “Those kinds of diagnostic tests require a lot of blood. So I... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
reliance on petroleum-based fertilizers and sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the ground. With his extensive background in green businesses, finance, and turnarounds, it seems almost inevitable that Wiviott would help found... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
David Perry’s Green Revolution
the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides in five important row crops: corn, rice, soybeans, cotton, and wheat. They coat seeds with these beneficial microbes to reduce the need for irrigation, increase resiliency in... 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. This year’s traditional track winner was Extend Fertility, Inc., a venture that allows women... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses
to the Forté Foundation, while that number is about 40% today. The Journal highlights HBS couple Sarina Richard (MBA 2015) and Drew Richard (MBA 2015), who met during a class discussion group. Why does HBS make for such fertile ground for... View Details