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- 19 Jul 2019
- News
The Day India’s Banks Died
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
1911 HBS establishes the Bureau of Business Research to write cases. 1922 Founding of Harvard Business Review (HBR). 1930s Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger conduct pioneering studies establishing the importance of field-based industrial research as Mayo’s The Human... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
because it doesn’t stifle innovation—and it’s fast. The transformative power of AI can be immensely positive. Eighty-five percent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 are off-track. What if we think about using AI to address... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
agriculture and from agriculture to industry. We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership." "Times of... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
family to lead the company, Zobel inherited a legacy of prudent management that preserved Ayala's interests through times of revolution, colonial rule, dictatorships, and war—not to mention earthquakes and volcanoes. Established in 1834 as an View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
extension, cultivate peace and economic opportunity in a region where growing saffron has become a more viable alternative to growing opium. “What better way to use our HBS education than for sustainable agriculture and business in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
nation it gives us better things to eat,” he says, “and the socioeconomic indicators go up after that.” That vision drives Keen as he continues to expand Sacred Seed’s reach through small gardens and larger partners like the Land Institute, a nonprofit committed to... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
for running the family business. With MBA in hand, however, Goldberg put off his return home in order to attend the University of Minnesota, where he completed a Ph.D. in agricultural economics in just two years. From 1952 to 1955,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha breaks for lunch near his home. After leaving Notore in 2010 to set up his own investment group, Doreo Partners, Masha spent a short stint as chief of staff for Nigeria's agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina, helping View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
Byrd Foundation, cofounded by Mark Lampert [MBA 1988], provided the initial funding.) PAD’s mission is to connect the agricultural communication technology that was already in use in the developed world with... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- News
Father Agribusiness
Agribusiness, he explains, “..[i]s not just agriculture and business, it’s people from the medical school and government and the school for public health all working together.” For Goldberg, observing those connections in the context of... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Photos by Benoit Cortet Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up Springfield, Ohio, a farming community where 4-H was founded, and many of his classmates were in FFA, the Future Farmers of America. Yet Tiller’s education in agriculture and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Agriculture and Business, Emeritus. “Ray left this amazing legacy that my colleagues and I have continued to move forward,” Alvarez says. “He saw that people in the food industry needed to talk to each other to understand the issues they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
developing world, and they must take the special needs of small-scale producers and malnourished consumers into account. They see how to adapt the developed world’s technology to the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home
global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for opportunities to support View Details