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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
constituted an abundant, inexpensive source of food for Asian and, to a lesser extent, international markets. Its production had soared from 1970 to 2010, sparking concern from environmentalists over the conversion of high-value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
- Course Overview Note
The Sustainable Core: Operations Management
By: Michael W. Toffel and L. Beril Toktay
This note is designed to help faculty embed environmental sustainability content into their core Operations Management course at the MBA or undergraduate level. It can also be used to identify cases with environmental content that can be used in operations electives... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and L. Beril Toktay. "The Sustainable Core: Operations Management." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 616-022, January 2016. (Revised February 2016.)
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
have been affected. Just a handful of these children were born in the U.S., where safety concerns were raised by Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, the medical officer handling the thalidomide application at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
Supplements the case "Nestle's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food Chain and Improved Nutrition." Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907402 A... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
wholly owned candy, ice-cream, and snack food manufacturer in Shenyang, a city in northeast China. Coming from a towering, Cambridge-educated, Mandarin-speaking American wearing a black ten-gallon cowboy hat, Kirkwood's message clearly... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
unique food (famed ham, mushroom varietals, cheese-making, and rare herbs), temperate climate, surrounding rivers and mountains, ethnic diversity (bordering Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar, Dali has been a cultural blotter), and overwhelming... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Semper Fidelis
In April, Tim Day (MBA 1964), chairman and CEO of Bar-S Foods, a processed-meats producer in Phoenix, Arizona, pledged $12 million in support of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. Day’s most recent gift, one of several major commitments,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
pressed pleats? Krasnow worked at General Foods for two years, developing fast-food products for the home kitchen. Then he joined the Jewel Companies, a food retailer, first bagging groceries at a Star... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
as landfills (even factoring in emissions associated with transporting it that distance). Only residual waste is incinerated—consumers sort trash into up to ten diferent streams including food waste, plastic, cartons, glass, cardboard,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
late at night, now that she’s up in the wee hours feeding her baby and scrolling Amazon on her phone, Saigal starts to question the exclusive direct-to-consumer route. “Are we losing out by not being on Amazon—and in retailers like Whole View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
warning that antibiotic resistance presents one of the greatest threats to health, food security, and development worldwide. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States at least 2... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)
is your current role and what steps and tactics did you use to get hired in your current position? During EC year, I focused my career search on impact investing roles. I was particularly interested in impact-first funds and growth investors in climate and View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
going to make the food space more vulnerable in the next five years. There is going to be enormous change, both because of the way people eat and because new models are starting to come into the equation that will erode the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810141-PDF-ENG Whole Foods Acquires Wild Oats (A) Michael D. Kimbrough, Sudhakar Balachandran, Madhav Srinivasan, and Rachel GordonHarvard Business School Case 109-029 Examines the implications... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
strategies. Consider Nestlé, a food company that reformulates its products in response to regional tastes for spices and sweets. In this "local value creation" configuration, the span of control for regional business managers is... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
economy. From sartorial taste and food habits to marriage and old age, from music and language to celebrities and censorship, he looks at over a hundred ads to study how the Indian consumer has changed over the past five decades and how... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The Robin Hood Army, an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise in green consumerism and public... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Publication:Annual Review of Psychology 60 (2009): 475-499 Abstract As technology has simplified meeting basic needs, humans have cultivated increasingly psychological avenues for occupying their consumption energies, moving from consuming View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne