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- November 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Bayer Crop Science
By: David E. Bell, Damien McLoughlin, Natalie Kindred and James Barnett
In mid-2019, a year after German conglomerate Bayer Group closed its acquisition of U.S.-based seeds giant Monsanto, the leadership of Bayer’s Crop Science division (which absorbed Monsanto) is reflecting on the opportunities ahead. Some observers have questioned... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consolidation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Change Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Germany
Bell, David E., Damien McLoughlin, Natalie Kindred, and James Barnett. "Bayer Crop Science." Harvard Business School Case 520-055, November 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- December 2008 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mary Louise Shelman
Arcadia Biosciences is an entrepreneurial California agricultural biotech company seeking to earn carbon credits by modifying commodity crops for use in China and India. Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faced a strategic inflection point in early September 2008. The company... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; China; India; California
Daemmrich, Arthur A., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Mary Louise Shelman. "Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change." Harvard Business School Case 709-019, December 2008. (Revised January 2011.)
- April 2018
- Case
The Bayer - Monsanto Merger: GMOs and 'Science for a Better Life'
By: Martha J. Crawford and James Barnett
This case allows students to explore the economic, ethical and legal challenges faced by agri-business companies, after several decades of promoting and selling Genetically Modified (GM) crops. Starting in the 1980s, the widespread introduction of GM crops was... View Details
Keywords: Merger; Acquisition; GMO; Genetically Modified Crops; Neonics; Pesticides; Crop Seeds; EU; Mergers and Acquisitions; Agribusiness; Genetics; Natural Environment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consolidation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United States
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Jos farmers planted some 1.1 million tomato seeds in greenhouses and later transplanted them into the fields; the company also worked with more than 200 smallholder farmers to increase their tomato yields. Mehta is now anticipating the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
Part architectural spectacle, part tourist attraction, and part government-sponsored stage for forums and meetings that seed progress on key economic and diplomatic fronts, World Expos have been taking place since the 1850s. Colombia... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
fertilizers, and insecticides, Batcha explains, the average crop yield of corn has increased nearly fivefold in the years between his youth and his retirement from Asgrow, where he worked for 28 years. Batcha took a leap of faith in... View Details
- September 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab
By: George Serafeim and Michael Norris
In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo
Serafeim, George, and Michael Norris. "Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab." Harvard Business School Case 124-017, September 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- February 2024
- Supplement
Seeds of Innovation: GALY’s Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab
By: George Serafeim
In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Green Technology; Goods and Commodities; Growth and Development Strategy; Science-Based Business; Entrepreneurship; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Startups; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Production; Entrepreneurial Finance; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Sao Paulo
Serafeim, George. "Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 124-705, February 2024.
- Spring 2012
- Article
Sustainability at Dow Chemical
By: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen M. Perkins and Mark Weick
Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second-largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the company has been committed to high-technology research and commercial innovation in chemistry, advanced materials, and agro-sciences. But if... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry
Eccles, Robert G., Kathleen M. Perkins, and Mark Weick. "Sustainability at Dow Chemical." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 38–44.
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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Food & Agriculture Innovation will reduce agriculture impacts and help farmers adapt The Green Revolution in the 20 th century dramatically increased crop yields and reduced global poverty by half. [25] These... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Planeteer Capital Planeteer Capital is a new Climate Tech venture capital firm that invests in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups. Planeteer invests globally, across hardware and software, and preferences B2B businesses in emerging... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
volunteer garden on the site of a reclaimed golf course in suburban Omaha, Nebraska. This garden is a living ambassador of the Sacred Seed project, a nonprofit Keen founded in 2014 to simultaneously promote more sustainable agricultural... View Details
- 20 May 2022
- Blog Post
Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research
national and looks to expand to even more US cities next year. Our founding goal was to help take university research out of the lab and help form startups around it to tackle real-world problems in sustainability. Our teams are focused on a huge diversity of fields... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Wilson says. The standard offerings for non-drinkers—even at special occasions—can feel like real kids’ table fare. The standard offerings for non-drinkers—even at special occasions—can feel like real kids’ table fare. On the craft-brewery side, entire ecosystems are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- Web
IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and his family grow their View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
food for its people. Through gardens planted with heirloom crops like Omaha Sacred Red Corn, Cherokee Trail of Tears Beans, and Mandan Squash—the "Three Sisters" of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands
high-tech, non-GMO tomato varieties for the company’s seed business. Syngenta is a global agribusiness leader focused on crop protection and seeds, and it offers 180+ tomato varieties and has 20+ teams... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
debating in 2016 how quickly the firm should bring to market its novel microbiome-coated seeds, which increased crop yields, reducing the environmental impacts of farming. Some of their seeds were able to... View Details
Keywords: April White