Food - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
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Health IT at the Bedside

ordered not to eat anything in advance of a test but was still given his usual dose of insulin. At hospitals that have modern IT systems, when food is being withheld for studies, corrected insulin orders are automatically suggested in the... View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

30 Apr 2014
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Harvard Business School Awards $150K to 4 Startups with 'One Simple Idea'

Keywords: Rock Center; start-up; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men

on agribusiness, the term with which he has become synonymous. He currently teaches a food policy and agribusiness course at the Kennedy School, the Agribusiness Seminar at HBS, and a University-wide seminar on public issues facing the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

25 Sep 2009
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HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary

average age was 43, its average salary was $18,000 (an indicator, the yearbook wrote, of the very responsible positions these men — including 7 presidents and 11 VPs — held in their companies). About 9 percent of the class came to AMP from the armed forces, 13 percent... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

27 Mar 2014
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From Marx to Marketing

food products, he had traveled frequently on business to the USSR and other Central and East European countries in the Soviet Bloc, thus gaining a knowledge of Soviet-style commerce few other Westerners could claim. Between 1985 and 1992,... View Details

30 Mar 2022
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Giving Hope and Comfort

items—the soap and the shampoo—that were most prized by the organizations that received the donations. A social worker from Catholic Charities who called Feingold to thank him explained that few people think to donate such expensive basics, but the need is great. View Details

20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

I want to leave behind is to have more Tony Elumelus across Africa,” he says. “The way we’re going to create many Elumelus is not by just giving them food today so they can come back another day and ask for more food. It’s by investing in... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Sep 2018
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HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups

productive workshop.” Creighton Taylor (MBA 2014) pitched his pilot-stage company, Compass, to get guidance on investors, while Noemie Delfassy (MBA 2010) was there to refine her pitch to investors for her food company, Frecious. Sam... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

passed away. “In everything I had been doing in Detroit, Max was my partner in a literal sense or a spiritual sense, and a lot of the joy of doing stuff here evaporated when he died,” Cummings says, as we tour the city Fisher helped shape. Cummings was done with... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

any policy achievement, but we do know people have told us our work matters. “In 2014, we were credited as being among the group of organizations whose work helped to ensure that cuts to SNAP (formerly known as food stamps), a critically... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

19 Mar 2015
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Walter Salmon Remembered

I approached him, and he picked up the telephone and called a former student at General Foods who agreed to hire me for the summer. That resulted in my eventually working there full-time, and it launched my marketing career. The other... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

Digital Initiative to facilitate online and offline conversations around classroom topics. Responses ranged from oil companies to ice-cream makers and almost everything in between. We’ve excerpted a few of them here. Shake Shack Data point: “The UN’s View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)

2014: The Election That Changed India, by Rajdeep Sardesai. Favorite US hotels: The NoMad and the Standard on the High Line in New York; the Delano in Miami. Any property owned by Aman Resorts. Perk of the job: “I’m a little bit of a foodie, so I love trying new... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1996
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Reinventing Marketing

Rounding out Marketing's agenda are multifaceted research projects. Professor Walter J. Salmon is looking at the costs and benefits of product variety for retailers and manufacturers as part of a joint project with the Food Marketing... View Details

Keywords: Mary Jane Higgins; Illustration by Peter Hoey

17 Oct 2014
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Making Tomato Paste in Nigeria

Keywords: Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing

31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: About a decade ago, Lindsay Ronga realized that she had developed an eating disorder. She was in the midst of applying to business schools and had started over-exercising and restricting her... View Details