Azadpur Mandi- Delhi’s Wholesale Produce Market
Paul Artiuch and Sam Kornstein are graduate students at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Throughout the month of January researched market-oriented approaches to reducing agricultural food waste in India. BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD January 10, 2012 Soon after arriving in Delhi, we took a walk over to a local market and spoke with a [...]
Staying Active: Boston to Yele
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD February 11, 2012 The Spring semester has started here in Boston, but I still find myself thinking of Yele often. In an exciting recent development, one of our team members, Laila, moved to Sierra Leone to manage the project and be our eyes and ears on the ground. I debriefed her [...]
Beginning Essmart’s Inventory Experiment in Pollachi, Southern Tamil Nadu, India
Diana Jue traveled to India to implement Essmart. Essmart is an essential technology distributor with an in-store presence. Currently, essential technologies such as bicycle-powered machines, affordable solar lanterns, and smokeless cook stoves designed for the bottom of the pyramid are not well distributed. Essmart combines process innovations in product sourcing, distribution, marketing, and after-sales service [...]
What does ‘buy local’ mean to the people of Hawai’i?
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD July 28, 2011 MIT undergrad and Public Service Intern Cydnie Trice is developing a marketing plan for the Hawai’i Alliance for a Local Economy this summer. For the past couple weeks, I’ve been surveying at local grocery stores and farmers markets around the island. We designed a survey for consumers aimed [...]
A portrait of production in Solo, Indonesia
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELDJuly 27, 2011 Graduate student and Public Service Intern Stephen Kennedy is working with an urban development and design non-profit Solo Kota Kita (Our City Solo). As you read this, some of you may be sporting a pair of fresh Nike kicks, tapping away on your Apple laptop, or consuming countless calories [...]
Think Local First: A campaign to help local Hawaiian businesses
BLOGGING FROM THE FIELD In this post, MIT undergraduate Cydnie Trice introduces a four-part series on the challenges of building a local economy in Hawai’i. Trice is a marketing intern for the Hawai’i Alliance for a Local Economy this summer. June 21, 2011: Building the Local Economy, Hawaii Style First, lets start with a short [...]
Sanergy: converting waste to electricity and fertilizer, one toilet at a time
Sanergy, a team of MIT students led by Ani Vallabhaneni (Sloan, ’11) and David Auerbach (Sloan, ’11), traveled to Nairobi, Kenya during the summer of 2010, IAP 2011, and summer 2011, through the PSC Grants program. Ani and David developed a business model where waste from toilets is collected and converted into fertilizer and electricity, [...]
