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- 14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because...
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- 10 Aug 2017
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Into the Light
these small villages, Poindexter has seen both simple inconveniences and economic hardship that result from the lack of power. Although cocoa farming, which is prevalent in the region where Energicity launched, doesn’t require...
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- 14 Nov 2012
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Remembering His Roots
invest in the educational and professional potential of men and women whose young lives were spent as migrant farm workers. Living by the cycle of fruit harvests, a basic education for these kids was often out of reach or incomplete, and...
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- 15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Senior Lecturer José Alvarez visited wheat fields at a farm owned and run by the Duhau Group in Argentina’s Pampa region. The company was the subject of a case Alvarez wrote, which he taught in the Agribusiness Seminar in 2019. (photo by...
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- 20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow
Despite New England’s long traditions of farming and fishing, only an estimated 5–10 percent of the food consumed in the region is actually produced there. That’s a fact Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is working hard to change. “At least 50...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Case Study: Tip the Scale
over speed in the fulfillment process. Walden aims to build a community of home cooks who are connected to local farms in a meaningful way, not simply a transactional purchase. The Question: With year-over-year growth at 75 to 100...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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A Remarkable Life Story
with the strong backing of Dean George P. Baker. The Road to Someplace Better charts Lambert’s life from her humble upbringing on a Virginia farm (which didn’t get electricity until she was eight) to her founding of Centennial One Inc., a...
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- 17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation
energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
compounds, which in turn affect a wine’s astringency, color, and mouthfeel. “After so many years farming on the same property, we have learned which areas are most likely to yield the best fruit,” she says. As the vineyard enters its 48th...
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Ryan Jones
- 01 Mar 2005
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In the Blood
choice is horse racing, not baseball, and the heroes are mostly of the four-footed variety. Just across the road is Keeneland, a sprawling auction and racing complex where Robert Clay (OPM 4, 1980) recently sold a horse from his nearby Three Chimneys View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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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...
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- 27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward
serves nearly 100 children, employs a staff of 30 caregivers, teachers, and administrators, and runs ancillary services that include a school, tailoring training, a small farm and greenhouse, a pharmacy, and...
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Margie Kelley
- 08 Jan 2016
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and...
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- 19 Aug 2013
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Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by small-holder farmers. It collected...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
Malden Mills had once again reached its prefire peak of $400 million in sales, thanks in no small part to the productivity of a grateful work force. "I did what I thought was right," Feurstein declared, "the way my father and grandfather...
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James E. Aisner
- 12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
children in real-life situations as they learn experientially through play in familiar environments using a mobile device. canada PIXIE is a website that connects passionate, small product companies, designers, and artisans with their...
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- 01 Jan 2003
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Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
investing $4,000 in savings and a $12,000 loan to found Centennial One. A supplier gave her ninety days of credit on vacuum cleaners, buffers, and chemicals. With a secretary and twenty part-time employees, Lambert focused at first on getting government contracts...
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- 03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?
reviews. I’ve made a butternut squash soup that tastes like butternut squash so that’s good, even if it didn’t make the cut for further development at Clover. We move on to a no-brainer single-origin chocolate from Goodnow Farms in...
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