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- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
learned how important it is to apply systems-level thinking to climate issues and solutions. Henry Tao: I grew up on a small farm in the middle of China. Reflecting on my childhood experience, I've always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
professors Pearson Hunt and Gordon Donaldson), which has been used by more than 300 universities. The faculty was relatively compact and small when I joined HBS; the curriculum and the way courses were organized and taught was quite... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
areas. Nestlé, for example, redesigned its coffee procurement processes, working intensively with small farmers in impoverished areas who were trapped in a cycle of low productivity, poor quality, and environmental degradation. Nestlé... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
changing social hierarchy and Wedgwood's bringing what had been the trappings of a small minority, the aristocracy, to the growing middling classes at a moment when Britain was industrializing. From a branding standpoint, it is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCommon Agricultural Policy and the Future of French Farming Harvard Business School Case 707-027 Presents the history and evolution of the EU Common Agricultural Policy, from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
sustainable agricultural practices like no-till farming and polyculture—in other words, the same practices used by indigenous cultures and promoted by Sacred Seed through gardens like the one at the Tri-Faith Initiative. Growing food on a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of black students—including HBS’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
change. According to this research, there are two primary factors that can cause institutions to change. First, institutional entrepreneurs, including individual actors or small groups of actors, are able to think and act outside the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
answer it, they looked not to high-tech modern prizes but to a comparatively unglamorous series of awards sponsored by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) back in the nineteenth century. For decades, explains Lerner, the RASE offered dozens of awards for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Grobo had an unusual business model: it did not own land nor farm machinery. Instead, it created a network of partnered producers and suppliers. In other words, it outsourced as much as possible. CEO Gustavo Grobocopatel believed that Los... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded fresh/chilled dairy products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
included exploring the potential for ecotourism, organizing a women’s farming collective, and coordinating efforts to save crops from raids by elephants. He enjoyed the experience so much that he extended his term by a year to help a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
cost-look ahead, investigate, and announce a small set of choices to the rest of the organization. Starting from that definition, the paper studies what makes a decision "strategic" and what makes strategy important, considering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
reviews. I’ve made a butternut squash soup that tastes like butternut squash so that’s good, even if it didn’t make the cut for further development at Clover. We move on to a no-brainer single-origin chocolate from Goodnow Farms in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
elections, yet the new owners had promised to find a way to finance and build a new home for the team. That Baer was able to help the ownership group keep that promise has to do, in no small part, with a well-honed instinct for marketing... View Details