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Health as a Way of Doing Business

By: Howard Koh, Sara J. Singer and Amy C. Edmondson
For too long, the worlds of business and health have been mired in a checkered, sometimes contentious, history. Millions of deaths worldwide can be attributed to risk factors including tobacco use, alcohol and drug misuse, and suboptimal dietary intake linked to... View Details
Keywords: Health; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion
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  • 2011
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Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

By: Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Failure; Performance Evaluation; Sales; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 01 Apr 2014
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FDA Moves to Regulate E-Cigarettes

    Max H. Bazerman

    Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details
    Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals
    • July 1991 (Revised August 1991)
    • Case

    Philip Morris Companies, Inc. (A)

    By: Samuel L. Hayes III
    This large tobacco and diversified food processor is seeking to refinance debt funds raised to accomplish a large acquisition. It has filed a large "shelf" registration that authorizes it to issue during the subsequent two years. At the time of the case, the market... View Details
    Keywords: Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 2011
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    Too Big to Live: Why We Must Stamp Out State Monopoly Capitalism

    The problems of excessive economic concentration, so lucidly and incisively analysed here, are not limited to the financial services industry. For the problem is now widespread: while five firms control 80% of the banking industry, a similar or greater concentration is... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Monopoly
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    • November 2017
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    A Retrospective Analysis of Hypertension Screening at a Mass Gathering in India: Implications for Non-communicable Disease Control Strategies

    By: S. Balsari, P. Vemulapalli, M. Gofine, K. Oswal, R. Merchant, S. Saunik, G. Greenough and T. Khanna
    Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCD) in India. The government’s National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke seeks to increase capacity building, screening,... View Details
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Problems and Challenges; India
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Human-Computer Interactions in Demand Forecasting and Labor Scheduling Decisions

    By: Caleb Kwon, Ananth Raman and Jorge Tamayo
    We investigate whether corporate officers should grant managers discretion to override AI-driven demand forecasts and labor scheduling tools. Analyzing five years of administrative data from a large grocery retailer using such an AI tool, encompassing over 500 stores,... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Working Conditions; Performance Productivity
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      Ray A. Goldberg

      A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

      ... View Details

      Keywords: tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco; tobacco
      • 29 Nov 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

      Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell

        Robert J. Dolan

        Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

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        Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

        DuPont Corporation, 1915–1919 Thomas C. du Pont DuPont Corporation, 1902–1915 David Duffield PeopleSoft, 1987–1999 James B. Duke American Tobacco Company, 1890–1912 William Durant General Motors Corporation, 1916–1920 E George Eastman... View Details
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        Current Research

        By: Leslie K. John

        Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

        Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

        • 01 Sep 2023
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        Returning to the Roots

        It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
        Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
        • 16 Feb 2023
        • HBS Case

        ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

        The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
        • 07 Jul 2021
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        Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

        satisfied. Good intentions could not erase the impact of past damage in our minds. In part, this is why some industries are judged more harshly than others—it’s hard to trust someone from an oil and gas company when they talk about saving the environment, or someone... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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        The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

        Pure Food and Drug Act; breakup of beef trust Excise Tax imposed on corporations Tariff Act forces corporations to open their books for government inspection Influence: High 10 1910 s 19 Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco... View Details
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        Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

        retail drugstores and 215,000 employees operating in 47 states in 2015. Since 2006, the company had been expanding its role in health care, moving beyond traditional drugstore alone. In 2014, reflecting its new approach, the company changed its name to CVS Health and... View Details

          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

            William M. Rosson

            Shunning critics, Rosson introduced two new smokeless tobacco products in the early eighties – Hawken moist snuff and Levi Garrett shredded tobacco. Through targeted advertising and promotions, these products went on to capture 25% of the... View Details
            Keywords: Food & Tobacco