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  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details
Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace
  • 16 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

on a number of products and services including health insurance plans, generic versus brand drug choices, copays and medication use, mobile phone plan choices, and even better methods for farming seaweed. “If you’re thinking about using... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail
  • 15 Nov 2018
  • Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

responsibility efforts, including investing in solar energy and environmentally friendly farming with his sights set on reducing the company's carbon footprint. "The more we leaned into development in the community, the better we... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 25 Mar 2015
  • HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

Avery, it is essential for organizations diving into digital not to give in to the temptation to farm out blogging and social media to outside companies. "You have to be confident that whoever is speaking on behalf of the institution... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 01 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

that farmers have access to credit lines. However, it's understandable why lenders might hesitate to grant loans to the cheese producers. Trichakis explains that farms are essentially small- and medium-sized enterprises, helmed by farmers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage
  • 18 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

advantage of changes in wind direction. Knowing the economic loss from downtime for each turbine on a wind farm allowed GE to determine a better maintenance schedule for turbines, figuring out which should be fixed first, and utilizing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

smallholder farmers capitalized on existing infrastructure to farm rubber around the edges of established groves, creating a rubber supply parallel to that produced by the foreign direct-invested estates. This increase in supply drove... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 28 Apr 2008
  • HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

perspective. There are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In "Sarah Talley and Frey View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 17 Oct 2016
  • HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

his career, Alvarez would visit farms after they had been picked over for the best fruits and vegetables to be sold in stores and was astounded at the amount of edible food that was rejected. “If you could get consumers to go to a View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Aug 2024
  • HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology
  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

and development, Jones says. California was another major player, offering wind firms fixed energy prices and guaranteed income streams for several years. These had the effect of luring major manufacturing companies from other industries into the turbine business,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-074 Employee Health No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516074-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

industry. He came to China in 2004 and set up Huaxia dairy farm with the goal to build a world-class dairy farm in China. In 2015, Huaxia had three farms in operation with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

Willard Marriott. He was a young guy from a farming town who created the Marriott hotel chain. Everybody talked about how wonderful his success was. Also, entrepreneurship is greater in communities that see change as positive and in which... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

Trumbull says. In the United States and France, large groups of farmers have worked with government to promote agricultural interests, says Trumbull, noting that the sector includes both small and large farms on the left and right of the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 08 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

inherent advantage in the country's political system. But that is beginning to change, albeit very slowly. "It was only in 2010 that the first non-recourse project financing was closed for a wind farm in China by an international... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions

at Harvard Business School. The thing that happened was the Dust Bowl: a series of severe dust storms and droughts that decimated farms in the Great Plains during the 1930s, forcing thousands of families to abandon their property. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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