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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
period. The business could wait; the people could not. The Long Beach plant’s parking lot was turned into what we called Oreckville. We very quickly purchased trailer homes from all over the country and... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Marrying agriculture and alternative technologies will go a long way in reducing 10–12 percent of total global emissions associated with agribusiness. Business Leaders Must Get Political 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
when the future of the business hinged on a single decision. For Sarina Russo (OPM 28, 1999), founder and president of the Sarina Russo Group of education, employment services, and property companies, that moment came in 1993 when she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
collect — may sicken or even kill them. The ocean-dominated Earth is indeed the “blue planet,” but only 1 percent of its water, the equivalent of one tablespoonful in a gallon, is fresh and accessible. Agriculture and industry are thirsty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Vertically Inclined
the firm’s current focus on Manhattan’s Hudson Yards district, an area of warehouses, parking lots, and factories that was rezoned for residential development in 2005, the New York Times reported (February 25, 2007). Elghanayan, who is a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
developer. In the Whole Foods parking lot, Cummings had seen Detroit pride, which he shares. But he also saw something more, something he hadn’t seen in the city in recent years: business opportunity. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
As CEO of Landcorps, New Zealand’s largest farming company, Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is a careful observer of food trends. "My job, given that we have got a million acres of land, and that it takes a long time to shift from one land use to another, is very much... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Sequoia Fund,” according to the article. Feldberg’s roommate was Marvin Traub, who later ran Bloomingdale’s, the high-end department store chain. After HBS, Feldberg worked for his father at Bell Shops, where he unpacked and inspected merchandise. “Mr. Feldberg soon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
CloudFlare.” Good deal: Matthew “It really pays to keep old business cards. Years ago I met Lindon Leader at a Chamber of Commerce event in my hometown of Park City, Utah. He’s designed logos for FedEx,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
looked at "industry-tied votes" by "interested" legislators—senators from states where agriculture was responsible for a high percentage of the state's GDP—and compared those votes with the votes of "uninterested" legislators (from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
companies, requiring the same critical, honest thinking about leadership development. Improving the cross-fertilization between business and education would help. It'd be great to have a kind of CEO-in-residence be part of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
change is in the air. While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot’s days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial buildings are already... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
For the Records
Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
for a long time, the major ski manufacturers just kept doing what worked last year.” Meanwhile, snowboarding companies were pushing the limits of production technology and design. The Faction Collective, where Hoye is cofounder and CEO, has built its View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
director of Indigo Agriculture at panel discussion held on the HBS campus entitled “Confronting Climate Change: Boston-Based Ideas that Can Change the World.” “Inspiring” is how David Chan (MBA 2018) described the forum he attended in New... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
pull it off. But it’s, it’s a hard thing and it’s a battle every day. Julia: One Brussels sprout sandwich at a time. Ayr: Yes, that’s right. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
shipping. In addition, algae can grow in salty or brackish water under extremely harsh conditions; so unlike other biofuel feedstocks such as corn and soy, algae don’t need to compete with agricultural crops for fresh water and arable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
choices among payment vendors and difficulties finding employees with e-commerce experience, necessitating extensive training. The Question: Cahuzac and his cofounders had planned to run a furniture company, not a logistics one. How can they focus on and scale their... View Details