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- 12 Aug 2016
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Case Study: How Would You Save This Farm?
- 21 Dec 2012
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Ray Goldberg honored for contribution to agribusiness
- 06 Sep 2018
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Why U.S. Grocery Chains Need More (and Better) Store-Brand Products
- 17 Dec 2020
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Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta
around the world, too, and I would love to collaborate with other clubs.” Virtual Case Discussion Dissects Launch of The Farm at Comcast More than 30 alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta joined Professor Linda Hill, on November 23 for an...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted
are currently used by HR. Fuller: There’s an awful lot that has to get arbitrated here in terms of the way work is thought about, and how people get evaluated and developed. Over the 120 years or so of significant organized capital, most people were owner-operators....
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Allison Hughes
parents' wheat farm and cattle ranch. Hughes's love of books and learning, she says, comes from her mother, who was trained as a teacher, while her down-to-earth values and passion to excel - not to mention her fluency in Norwegian -...
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Charlie Hogg
- 27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success
stunning—completely untouched,” says Turner. They named the property Madava Farms after daughters Maddie and Ava. “There were no roads, no houses; just forest, trout streams, and wildlife,” he notes. “We’d walk in the woods and think how...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team
piggyback on top of what we have. We don’t have to build around each specific niche-y crop; we can just move around farms and go up and down rows really well,” Andersen explains. That task alone is stunningly complex, and it clarifies why...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
difference,’” says Dave Bangert (MBA 2005), who became CEO of the company shortly after the program was introduced. Some employees were able to pay pressing bills, while others invested in cows for their farm or saved for house down...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
priority in my mind. The interest became a calling that evolved into a huge opportunity. Twelve years ago, I founded a business that develops wind farms that generate clean, renewable energy. I am active in two markets, the UK and Israel...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Chaku Foods Nikki Okrah (MBA 2021), CEO and Founder Concept: A snack-food company in Okrah’s native Ghana that is building farming supply chain infrastructure for other consumer...
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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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- 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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- 22 Sep 2016
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Building a Green Energy Grid
Green-energy entrepreneur Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) founded Houston-based Clean Line Energy in 2009 to tackle a critical challenge. “If you look at the wind-power equation,” he says, “you quickly see that transmitting energy long distances from rural wind 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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- 01 Sep 2013
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The New Tech Meccas
sends information about the wearer's heartbeat to a data center, where a proprietary algorithm analyzes it for early signs of a heart attack. KarmSolar/Cairo, Egypt: Egyptian farms rely on pumping water from underground sources, which...
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- 10 Aug 2017
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Into the Light
million people.” In October 2015, eight months after Poindexter’s first trip to Ghana, Energicity completed its first solar farm in a village near Kumasi. Two weeks after the power was turned on, Poindexter returned to visit the...
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