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- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
changes in Bangladesh, and independent assessments of safety standards and subcontracting in the industry. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Nestlé's Milk Districts: Case Supplement Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Supplement 906-411 Nestlé, as the largest milk company in the world, has a history of economic development, nutrition, health, and food View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
number of actions that build society. The following studies reveal proven methods of encouraging healthy eating and exercise. A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety Basic tweaks to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
unexpected networking opportunities, generating a tight community of German businesspeople in India. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54465 How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections By: Ibanez, Maria, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
partnership with the online review platform Yelp helped the researchers evaluate consumers’ interest in dining at restaurants as well as ordering food for delivery and takeout. The team found that: People across the US had largely stopped... View Details
- February 1992 (Revised September 2003)
- Supplement
Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-2)
By: Lynn S. Paine, Bronwyn Halliday and Michael Santoro
Beech-Nut's CEO must decide what to do. Asks students to consider how much evidence of impurity should be enough to trigger management's acknowledgment of a problem. What are the cognitive and attitudinal factors and pressures that lead people to persist in beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Risk Management; Attitudes; Nutrition; Cognition and Thinking; Food and Beverage Industry
Paine, Lynn S., Bronwyn Halliday, and Michael Santoro. "Beech-Nut Nutrition Corporation (A-2)." Harvard Business School Supplement 392-085, February 1992. (Revised September 2003.)
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless Organization offers practical... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
small-business owners trying to survive. Strict safety protocols haven’t been enough to get customers through the door for some small businesses, and many owners—crushed by inventory and overhead costs—are grappling with hard choices.... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
including a 20-article investigative series in the New York Times that discovered similar cases at other hospitals. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started investigations of the CT devices, dozens of patients joined in a... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-116 India's Amul: Keeping Up with the Times Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative founded in 1947—eight months before India's independence from British rule—and owned by over three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
in startup mode. Currently the Kraft team is tracking three ongoing trials for pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, and multiple myeloma, and has met with the US Food and Drug Administration to discuss View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
discussions. Known as the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Group (PAPSAC), the organization is dedicated to using a multidisciplinary approach to "assist the food... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
standards. Who is to blame? The owners of the factory, or the retailers that demand price levels that cannot be met if reasonable safety standards for factory workers are in place? Let's step back and... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
land and outgrowers for production, the addition of value-added processing to obtain premium prices, and the introduction of global certification to ensure food safety and meet retailer and consumer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
experience planted a seed for Pomeranz's future research: how to promote financial savings among "microentrepreneurs" such as food cart owners, street vendors, and cosmetics saleswomen, whose income is low and often fluctuates.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
credit constraints, and I find no imbalance in observable characteristics between treatment and control groups. These findings strongly suggest social safety nets have spillover benefits on the supply of firms. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
and limiting production volumes; illegal poultry imports threaten food safety while undercutting prices of domestic product; corruption is rampant; debt is exorbitantly expensive; commercial real estate is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne