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- 30 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Temptation at Work
- 30 May 2024
- News
How to Have Effective Conversations
has said that being lonely is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And 15 cigarettes a day is a lot of cigarettes, right? That's not a small number of cigarettes. Having these relationships, they... View Details
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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
retail stores, textile manufacturers, clothing or cigarette makers—to say nothing of the indignity of mail-order houses and five-and-ten operations—Philip Lehman led his cousins directly into such businesses with quickly profitable... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
any favors when we panic about our own goals. Freaked out because you smoked a cigarette after vowing to quit? The resultant cortisol boost may induce you cheat on your vow further, and sneak another one. Losing sleep because you cheated... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
Caribbean-inspired appetizers and entrées. Franyo meets daily with the Boatyard’s chef and general manager, Tammy Reece, to go over the menu and discuss management issues, then puts in his time “picking up cigarette butts and bottle caps”... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
behavior affect them today. For example, if a rational addict learns that taxes on cigarettes are going to double in six months, she may be less likely to take up smoking today. Hussam remains agnostic on whether the behavior of addicts... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
Guide You’ll Ever Need (among other books), range from placing tort-reform initiatives on the California ballot to following the Parliament cigarette plane and its ad banner (“Parliament: the perfect recess”) over Long Island beaches with... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
inability to socialize is more likely to influence late majority and laggard groups to take the vaccine than health-related messages. Similarly, past research about preventing teenagers from smoking cigarettes found that highlighting the... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
epidemic of loneliness. They noted that loneliness is the health equivalent of 15 cigarettes a day. Social connection matters. Countless studies tie social connection to longevity, wellness, and good mental health. The Life and Leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
Public Health) found that the agreement has had little effect. In their article in the New England Journal of Medicine last August, King and Siegel analyzed trends in expenditures for advertising between 1995 and 2000 by examining fifteen specific brands of View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, HBS assistant professor Charles King III investigates whether, indeed, cigarette companies advertise to magazine readers between the ages of 12 and 17. As King and... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
Richard J. Reynolds
Though his tobacco company had much success with its chewing tobacco products in the early 1910s, it was Reynolds' introduction of the Camel cigarette line in 1913 that was his biggest accomplishment. Though Camel products comprised 2/3... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
James A. Gray, Jr.
Through his advertising efforts, Gray was able to return Camel to its position as the best selling cigarette brand. In 1939, Gray greatly improved R. J. Reynolds’ leaf operations by installing vacuum conditioners, which eliminated the use... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Bowman Gray, Jr.
In 1954, Gray introduced Winston cigarettes, the company’s first filter-type cigarettes, and the Salem brand in 1956. By 1965, Winston had emerged as the nation’s #1 selling cigarette brand, replacing Camel, with Salem not far behind.... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Joseph F. Cullman III
direction, Marlboro grew to become the best selling cigarette brand in the world in 1972. At this same time Phillip Morris was the world’s largest exporter of cigarettes. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Bowman Gray
Gray developed the famous advertising slogan for Camel cigarettes: “I’d walk a mile for a Camel.” An early radio advertiser, Gray sponsored the Camel Pleasure Hour in the 1930s. Gray led the campaign against Lucky Strike, which vied with Camel for the top spot in the... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
Leo Burnett
Pillsbury Doughboy, Charlie the Tuna, Morris the Cat for Starkist, the Maytag repairman, and United’s “Fly the friendly skies.” He also is credited with the Marlboro Man, which took Marlboro from less than 1 percent market share in 1953 to the largest-selling View Details
Keywords: Services
James B. Duke
Five principal cigarette manufacturing companies merged to form American Tobacco in 1890 with Duke as head and with a capitalization of $25 million. In 1895, Duke began an aggressive campaign to absorb companies making other kinds of... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Art purchased on this year's trip
"Invasion" by Amy Wilson, Courtesy Bellwether Gallery "Awake from Your Slumber" by Amy Wilson, Courtesy Bellwether Gallery "Untitled" by Bill Henson, Courtesy Robert Miller Gallery "Me Lighting Lauren Bacall's Cigarette in 'Written on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Soul Man
wished to be rid of. As the teens deposited their notes in trash bins (along with CDs, T-shirts, and cigarette lighters), Luce prayed before the crowd into an onstage microphone, “Lord Jesus, I strip off the identity of the world, and... View Details