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  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Entrepreneurship for Nutritional Equity: Summer Fellows Courtney Irwin & Noah Lizerbram (Both MBA 2022) Courtney Irwin Noah Lizerbram 08 Jul 2021 The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they... View Details
  • March 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to provide a solution to a large scale complex problem. Ultimately, Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Nutrition; Business and Community Relations
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  • December 2010 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

The Full Yield

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Noemie Myriam Delfassy
New firm created to provide understanding of the role of food in health and nutrition. View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Food; Health Care and Treatment; Nutrition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • May 2009
  • Teaching Note

The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Eric D. Werker
Teaching Note for [709024] and [709052]. View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Nutrition; Food; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Poverty
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  • 09 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

nutritional labels for their products, earning a certificate of approval when they address FDA concerns. "They get these consultations and they are somewhat meaningless—they have little to do with the USDA approval process,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 06 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

internship at DRK in part because it would allow me to explore an area of interest: food and nutrition in the United States. In the past, I may not have taken this problem-centric approach, as it always felt like there were too many... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 2014
  • Article

The Burden of Guilt: Heavy Backpacks, Light Snacks, and Enhanced Morality

By: M. Kouchaki, F. Gino and A. Jami
Drawing on the embodied simulation account of emotional information processing, we argue that the physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Nutrition; Emotions; Weight
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  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

science and materials company, entered a partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) to combat hidden hunger around the world by providing micronutrient solutions. The case investigates the unexpectedly large impact the partnership had on DSM and on the global... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 19 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

Bridges: Remembering the “Why”

the friend who, four years ago, took the time to teach me about exercise and nutrition when I decided I wanted to lose weight. He created a workout plan and told me to text him every day to tell him if I had done it. Two minutes a day,... View Details
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

By: Amrita Ahuja, Brian Wendell and Eric D. Werker
Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to test the mixed theoretical predictions. In this paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2005 using... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Health Disorders; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Research; Education; Nutrition; Risk Management; Africa
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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Innovation: Frozen Assets

recovered, and Americans have started dining out again. Day also has to combat long-ingrained American stereotypes about frozen food. “People think ‘healthy’ is eating tofu and salad, but they don’t realize that you can get great View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
  • 20 Nov 2019
  • News

From the Ground Up

children would come to school, but not have lunches with them, so they wouldn't have proper nutrition during school. They were often just embarrassed to come to school. And school supplies––in addition to being required to have a uniform,... View Details
Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • April 2006
  • Case

Nutricia Middle East: Measuring Sales Force Effectiveness

Nutricia's Middle East and African region is transitioning from a trading to a customer focus. CEO Ernest Vandenbussche must decide how to market infant milk formula most effectively in a region where the information environment is much less rich than in other... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Salesforce Management; Customer Relationship Management; Emerging Markets; Nutrition; Performance Effectiveness; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Health Industry; Middle East; Africa
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  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

challenge ahead. We’ve included direct responses from our 600 CEOs to reflect their current thinking and concerns. Nutrition and hydration This may seem obvious—but under stressful or traumatic conditions the body’s usual signals of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 03 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 14 Jul 2021
  • News

The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

one-third of all the food in the world is wasted.” How does the company’s food distribution process work? “We focus on resolving the nutritional needs of community kitchens by distributing high-quality nutritious food and providing... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

internship at DRK in part because it would allow me to explore an area of interest: food and nutrition in the United States. In the past, I may not have taken this problem-centric approach, as it always felt like there were too many... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • News

Advancing Change

rising talent is taking hold in leading companies. What is the path forward for the would-be advanced leader? First, dream big. Some of my favorite stories in the book are about people who take on something that seems impossible—fixing View Details
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806069 Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children Harvard Business School Case 507-006 In an effort to capture market share in the children's foods category,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace