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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A wild ride from adventure travel to social media marketing
she sold asparagus on her family farm as a child in New Zealand, and started an adventure travel company prior to HBS, Ransom didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. With Wildfire, she saw a need and was willing to put in the hard work and... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar programs. (Published December 2015) View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
and Indonesia to the Philippines, is now just half the world average. Poverty is not, of course, a new phenomenon. But during the Cold War, economic misery abroad did not matter to Washington; the United States and its allies were... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-116 India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British rule—and owned by over three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and college students. The book illustrated the production of steel products that fueled America’s growing post-war consumerism. As the volume noted, “An estimated 14,500 pounds of steel in some form—in homes, machines, mines, bridges, automobiles, railroads, View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
visions of what it means to retire. (We didn’t come up with a better word, although one member of the Class of 1958 referred to a state of “re-inspirement” in his 45th Reunion book.) What the five seem to have in common — aside from a... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
Extending the lives of the companions we love! Alumnus: Daniel Oliver, MBA 2013 Region: New England Secure Code Warrior: Welcome to the era of secure software development. Alumnus: John Fitzgerald, MBA 1997 Region: Europe Slurrp Farm: 100% honest yumminess. Slurrp... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Back to School
hunker down and roll up my sleeves and use my experience to make a difference there. It was pretty exciting.” Since 2004, Whitney has been doing the same and more as admissions director at Green Farms Academy, an independent K–12... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Doubts about Applying to HBS
I am a first generation Mexican-American born and raised in farming and immigrant communities in Arizona. I earned my undergraduate economics degree from Arizona State University. After graduating, I worked... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
dwindling precipitously due to mites, pesticides, and other threats. Local youngsters don pint-sized beekeeping suits on Price’s 14-acre farm in Nokesville, Virginia, to engage with bees, which total about 1 million at summer’s peak;... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
several critical sectors of the economy, including banking and private insurance, federal and state governments act as insurers of last resort, assuming literally trillions of dollars in contingent liabilities. Whether you like it or not,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- Profile
Joe Stenger
Earth. You’re surrounded by the most accomplished, yet humble, people in the world. Because of them, each night I go to bed believing that anything is possible. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? When I was 9 years old, I was riding my four-wheeler on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
Richard Vietor’s course Business, Government, and the International Economy put many things in context.” Number of state visits since taking office: 57 trips to 49 countries, including Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and 12... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- Web
Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog
toughest deals. Examples: In business and finance : Steve Schwarzman on several early make-or-break deals for Blackstone; Sarah Frey negotiates advantageous supplier deals for her tiny farm with a vindictive Walmart enroute to building an... 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 cow typically seen as... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
presented by the pandemic on three continents: West Africa The region’s already fragile food ecosystems are buckling under the pandemic strain, with lockdowns keeping farm workers from their fields, supply chains disrupted, price hikes,... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
institution’s patient portal. Conclusions. As healthcare costs continue to rise in the United States and around the world, a value-based approach with explicit, transparently reported patient outcomes will not only create opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne