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- 20 Feb 2018
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David Perry’s Green Revolution
Studio Nouveau/Courtesy of Indigo Ag Studio Nouveau/Courtesy of Indigo Ag The latest issue of Harvard magazine includes a feature on agricultural innovation, and highlights the work of Indigo Ag CEO David Perry (MBA 1997) The piece traces Perry’s background, from...
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- 06 Jul 2015
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Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm...
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- 10 Jan 2017
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Paying It Forward
runs a school, a small farm and greenhouse, a pharmacy, and a shrimp farm—all of which are intended to give the children an education, vocational skills, and food. “The opportunity to help people makes me feel good,” says Kundu. “It gives...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Feedback
Club of Connecticut Editor's note: You can check out Doering's Two Roads Brewing at tworoadsbrewing.com. The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria Re: Forward-thinking farming It always amazes me what people can...
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- 12 May 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
food-education spaces and food-business incubators, Duda has combined his MBA with the lessons he learned in restaurants. He’s also actively involved with the resurrection of the Redland Farm Life School, near Miami. When it opened in...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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The Natural Advantage
farm in Dorset, England. As he worked the property, Heeks realized that principles of sustainable development and sound organic farming could be applied to the successful management of an organization,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
illustration by Jon Krause In 2006, Palo Alto native Charles Baron (MBA 2013) decided to join a future brother-in-law on his central Nebraska farm for the duration of the year’s corn harvest. It was what farmers would call a mixed...
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- 20 Jun 2008
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Risk and Reward
sure what went wrong with Big Brown. But his owners say they plan to race him through the end of the year. When Big Brown is retired, he will stand at stud at Robert Clay’s (OPM 4, 1980) Three Chimneys farm www.threechimneys.com in...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Research Brief: Capitol Gains
legislation's repercussions or figure out how to systematically capitalize on it." To further explain his model, Cohen cites this year's controversial farm bill, which passed in the Senate by a vote of 68 to 32, with support from 83...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but...
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- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food. The FreshBox facility bears no resemblance to our cultural renderings...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African...
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- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
in Central New Jersey before it was populated in the '1940s and '50s. Once I went away to school, that sort of got left behind. When Judy and I bought a farm in Vermont, that rekindled both of our interest and desire to just be on that...
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- 24 Mar 2017
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Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
Extending the lives of the companions we love! Alumnus: Daniel Oliver, MBA 2013 Region: New England Secure Code Warrior: Welcome to the era of secure software development. Alumnus: John Fitzgerald, MBA 1997 Region: Europe Slurrp Farm: 100% honest yumminess. Slurrp...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Back to School
hunker down and roll up my sleeves and use my experience to make a difference there. It was pretty exciting.” Since 2004, Whitney has been doing the same and more as admissions director at Green Farms Academy, an independent K–12...
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- 31 May 2017
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Father Agribusiness
In the late 1950s, an HBS lecturer named Ray Goldberg noticed something: traditional farming and the wider world of business were beginning to intersect with greater and greater frequency. Intrigued, he came up with a name for what he...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart
are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms...
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- 22 Feb 2016
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Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
the Miami Culinary Institute. He sits on the board of Northeast Organic Farming Association in New Jersey, which incubates artisanal food production businesses. And he indulges the would-have-been academic in him by regularly attending...
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April White
- 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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- 01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal
Torrey Reade (MBA 1981) says hello to each of the ten vendors at the Salem, New Jersey, farmer’s market. From Al Dolinski, she buys sunflowers. After inquiring “How’s it going?” she can’t resist the heirloom tomatoes from the Hancocks. The corn from Buzby View Details