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  • March 2012
  • Article

A 2-phase Labeling and Choice Architecture Intervention to Improve Healthy Food and Beverage Choices

By: Anne Thorndike, Lilian Sonnenberg, Jason Riis, Susan Barraclough and Douglas E. Levy
Objectives: We assessed whether a 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention increased sales of healthy food and beverages in a large hospital cafeteria. Methods: Phase 1 was a 3-month color-coded labeling intervention (red="unhealthy" yellow="less healthy"... View Details
Keywords: Health; Sales; Change; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Yahoo! in China (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Daniel Baer
In 2007 Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo!, was lambasted by U.S. Representative Tom Lantos, chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, for Yahoo's role in the arrest and imprisonment of Chinese journalist and democracy advocate Shi Tao. The case describes the... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Business and Government Relations; Internet; Information Technology Industry; China; United States
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  • 19 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 11 Jun 2019
  • Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

greater burdens on managers but also creating new opportunities to shine. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time Making a business successful is a challenge in itself, but making a green... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the closing of hospitals for... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • April 2014
  • Article

Can an 'Ethical' Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

By: Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz
A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical issues of bank loans when it is considering an application for a large commercial... View Details
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  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

entity is controlled by a fluid disaggregated group of public shareholders. Thus, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that a proposed merger of Time Incorporated and Warner Communications did not effect a change of control of Time even... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business, coauthors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss maintain that it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

profitable and successful companies I know are rigorous about driving simplicity and driving out complexity ." Charles Green continues the discussion by suggesting, "The really interesting question... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 05 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

through direct interaction with the growers. Each year he presents a "Golden Tomato" award at a ceremony attended by all Mutti farmers. It's an opportunity not only to recognize them for a job well done and to share ideas, but also to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

of our interview with authors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss what the future of storefront retailing looks like and how its transformation will also change the economy and society. Sean Silverthorne: What is happening to the shopping mall? According to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

customer needs both today and tomorrow, and the other that is focused on crazy innovation." Leaders who strike the balance well, note O'Reilly and Tushman, do so by mitigating the effects of separation with a structure that... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

sustainability. Narasimhan Gopalan cited "special programs to engage the employees to contribute towards green initiatives at different levels." David Cawlfield stressed the need for "employees (to) identify with the value... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 09 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

competitive strategy expert Michael E. Porter, of Harvard Business School. The competitive challenges now facing the UK have been made significantly worse by years of inaction. “Our worry is that the UK remains mired in wishful thinking... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Breaking News

afforded her a detailed view of the industry’s challenges and opportunities and helped to inspire the founding of the National Trust. The nonprofit launched its test case in May 2021, with the purchase of 24 newspapers and websites in Colorado. The sellers, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiation and All That Jazz

directly to negotiations," says Wheeler, whose own background is in law and policy analysis. "I'm not speaking metaphorically. By emulating what jazz masters do, we all can become better negotiators." Indeed, the late diplomat Richard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

golddiggers, each scrambling to carve out new territories and stake their claims in them. There are people like Marc Andreessen and Jerry Yang (the respective founders of Netscape and Yahoo!), who ventured west to test their mettle and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman