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- 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 2014
- News
Feedback
from Nigeria's agriculture minister. No Small Beer Re: Alumni brewers You omitted Peter Doering (MBA 1987), a local HBS alumnus, who started a brewery about 15 months ago. We did an HBS alumni club event at his brewery recently, and it...
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- 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...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- News
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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- 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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- 20 Nov 2015
- News
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 Apr 1998
- News
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
- News
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
- News
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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- 22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam
process was painful, he concedes, but federally insured deposits would make all the pain and suffering worthwhile by clearing a key blockage in the system. While he was building Walden Local and its supply chain of small View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
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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...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
depends on tidal currents just as wind farms depend on wind. Like wind and solar energy, tidal and other forms of marine power such as wave energy consume no fossil fuels and produce no carbon emissions, yet they are far more reliable...
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- 22 Apr 2021
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Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
which connects farmers to food banks to reduce food waste and feed needy communities; Anne Hayes, executive director of The Food Project, which deploys youth and young adults from diverse backgrounds to work on farms and in urban gardens...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
defying expectations. An Iowa-born farm girl who moved east to attend Bryn Mawr in 1963, she went on to apply to HBS at a time when few women did so. (“Dear, that’s a trade school,” announced the academic dean at Bryn Mawr when Carson...
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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
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
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
- News
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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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
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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- 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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- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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