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- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
medium-to-high-income earners. We created interactive maps to show where different US counties fall both in terms of overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient, and where this inequality is concentrated through the more specific Ortega parameters, which is... View Details
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
created sustained success. The Visionary: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi India-born Indra Nooyi immigrated to the United States in 1978 to study at Yale University. She joined PepsiCo in 1994 and rose rapidly through its ranks. When she was named CEO in 2006, Nooyi recognized... View Details
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
several dishes. But it's also part of the "New Fast Food" initiative Su developed in 2005 in response to concerns about the role of fast-food restaurants in the obesity epidemic—concerns that he shares and takes responsibility... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
conflict. Roosevelt replaced Stevens with Colonel George Washington Goethals. Goethals was a cold, withdrawn man of many prejudices, including ones both common and uncommon for the time. He disdained blacks and loathed obese people, with... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817080-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-106 Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery? Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the largest managed care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
double-or-nothing on a diet bet. A group of obese hospital patients agreed to a "deposit contract," banking a small amount of their own money into a pot each day during a 32-week weight-loss trial. The research team agreed to match the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
place in the United States where it is possible to do so. “One of the key things Doug understood after meeting with community groups was that just providing the ingredients wasn’t enough,” says Alvarez, noting that Dorchester has one of the highest View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
issues rubbing up against the stubborn human tendency to think in the short term. "We've got obesity as a problem, we've got government debt as a problem, we've got carbon as a problem," he says. "All of those things are problems in large... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Business School Case 317-033 Nutrition Science Initiative: Are All Calories Created Equal? In 2012, Gary Taubes lunched the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI), a not-for-profit organization aiming to question the mainstream scientific paradigm regarding View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
their supply chains. The geographical dispersion of production sites is low, and therefore different players can benefit from collaborating on select engagements in priority river basins. Other examples include tackling obesity and... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of health care spending, we should launch a decade-long national "Healthy Living" campaign focusing on nutrition, diet, physical fitness, and stress reduction. We cannot continue to ignore the obesity epidemic sweeping the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
foods, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetables to frozen meals, through a partnership with Kroger supermarkets. In answer to a global obesity epidemic, DCP reformulated existing products and introduced new ones which met stringent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
business leaders. These include pollution and climate change, poverty and income inequality, obesity and public health, and corruption and regulatory capture. This note presents a way of analyzing the economic, legal, and ethical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
chains had changed significantly. While a higher proportion of Americans exercised on any given day, the majority still did not, and the average number of hours exercised had remained essentially flat. Meanwhile, the prevalence of people classified as overweight and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
“COVID-19 is especially deadly for people with underlying conditions, including those related to poor diet, like obesity and diabetes. That is exacerbating existing health disparities with deep roots in food apartheid.” Gardeneers had to... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
agencies and automotive manufacturers that try to improve automotive safety benefit from research using cadavers. It does not help that many users seek the same "good" type of cadavers. A good specimen, in this context, means a young cadaver, one not overly... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
failed to institute a ban on serving sizes of large sugary beverages. Obesity posed a large public health risk to the city. Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban was one of many attempts to combat the rising threat of obesity. The case discusses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
concurrent with an obesity epidemic, suggesting that low-income communities lacked access not just to food in general, but to healthy foods in particular. Rauch believed he could build a non-profit grocery store model that took advantage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
breakthrough the company had hoped for, much remained uncertain—most obvious, would consumers accept Reb A as a substitute for sugar or the myriad sweeteners already established in the marketplace? The potential seemed high given consumers' growing concerns about View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne