Sector collection / 03 published
Case files, access paths, and operational lessons for leaders responsible for this technology domain.
Agriculture & food systems
A Pioneer field manager found a stranger on his knees in an Iowa research plot, digging up corn. The license plate he recorded helped expose Mo Hailong's five-year effort to carry proprietary parent seed from Midwestern fields to a Chinese seed conglomerate.
Agriculture & food systems
The day after leaving Monsanto and The Climate Corporation, Haitao Xiang arrived at an airport with copies of a proprietary predictive farming algorithm and a one-way ticket to China.
Agriculture & food systems
Kexue Huang held trusted biotechnology roles at two major agricultural companies. He admitted taking protected research from both employers, sending Dow material to collaborators in China and Germany and giving a Cargill secret to a Chinese university student.