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- 15 Jun 2016
- News
This Startup Wants to Put Unusual Vegetables on Your Plate
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
tablespoons tamarind paste ¼ cup Canola vegetable oil 1 medium onion (finely chopped) 2 medium tomatoes (finely chopped) 2 inches of fresh ginger (finely chopped) 1 small green chili (finely chopped) 1 clove of garlic (finely chopped) 1... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Elevator Pitch: First Byte
working with difficult-to-handle items, including hard-to-scoop ice cream, gloopy guacamole, and prepped fruits and vegetables of various sizes (the Dexai name is a portmanteau of dexterous and AI). Stats: Headquartered in Somerville,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
that mixing one full serving of vegetables with chocolate milk could disguise the vegetable taste, creating a creamy chocolate milk shake that could offer parents a sneaky way to deliver View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
California’s Kern County, Florez hauled irrigation pipe around rose and vegetable fields for up to twelve hours a day in triple-digit heat, a job for which he received no overtime pay. “Before I leave I want to attempt to have an argument... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the Western Hemisphere, to develop a program to distribute View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Nourishing the Next Generation
says. Today, California-based Chefables prepares more than 30,000 fresh, from-scratch, and mostly organic meals: think vegetable chow mein, edamame hummus, chicken shawarma, and whole-grain pastas shaped like bunnies or bears—a day for... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
average American consuming 3.1 servings of meat daily, Muir (MBA 2004) realized that food was a place he could make a difference. In 2008 he started Clover Food Lab with the goal of making vegetables irresistible for people who love to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
to play in the big leagues.” Two years after earning his MBA, he returned to Texas and joined Frito-Lay, where he learned enough about the oil business — vegetable oil, that is — to partner with some friends and buy an oil manufacturing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
from used vegetable oil and sugars. The polymer can be used to replace plastic, is fully home compostable, and doesn’t create microplastics when it breaks down. Goodwin is proud of OceanCycle’s contribution but knows the issue is too big... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
A Fresh Approach to Urban Farming
of wastage that you would see in green vegetables when you’re transporting from one country to another. So we end up having a much more productive farm that we can price at a competitive level. “I think about it as getting back to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
brought its own challenges. Ginseng is a notoriously labor-intensive crop: Plants can take four to five years to mature, all of the seeds are picked by hand, and most of the harvesting is manual. All machinery is customized from other uses—like a $100,000 root View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Success began with vegetable lentil soup. Ian Carson (OPM 42, 2012) was fresh off volunteering in Australian politics as state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria when he was inspired to take action about food waste and hunger. He... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
Heifer International, the anti-poverty organization perhaps best known for its livestock donation program. “We can do this by building businesses. We are putting families in commerce. They are not just growing vegetables in a garden. They... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
In this business, you're only as good as the person peeling the potatoes," calls out Jerry Shafir (MBA '84) through a rising cloud of steam, as a hundred pounds of freshly chopped vegetables slide into a Jeep-sized cauldron of chicken... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
the fields and on farms gathering the cherries and the vegetables and the fruits, all up and down the state.” LEDA was established to help people understand that the populations are shifting and that they need to be more accepting and... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
struggle between hope and despair,” Magwegwe recently told the online magazine Destiny Man. His first break came when a street vendor selling fruits and vegetables struck up a friendship with Magwegwe and learned of his dream to go to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley