When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rejected a request to waive the Renewable Fuel Standard in November 2012, it examined a wide variety of evidence, including modeling of the impact that a waiver would have on ethanol use, corn prices, and food prices.
Joan Magretta, M.B.A., Ph.D., is an award-winning contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where she was the strategy editor during the 1990s. Before that she was a partner at Bain & Company, a leading management consulting firm. Become a Fan.
Ina Rosenberg Garten (/ËaÉªnÉ/ EYE-nÉ; born February 2, 1948) is an American author and host of the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa, and a former staff member of the White House Office of Management and Budget.arten left her government job in 1978 after spotting an ad for a 400-square-foot (37 m 2) specialty food store in Westhampton Beach, New York. The store was named Barefoot Contessa. My job in Washington was intellectually exciting and stimulating but it wasn't me at all, she explained four years later.