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- September 2012
- Article
Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention
By: Douglas E. Levy, Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough and Anne N. Thorndike
Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals.
Purpose: To test whether a two-phase point-of-purchase intervention improved food choices across racial, socioeconomic (job... View Details
Keywords:
Working Conditions;
Safety;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competitive Advantage;
Cost
Levy, Douglas E., Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough, and Anne N. Thorndike. "Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 43, no. 1 (September 2012): 240–248.
- 13 Feb 2022
- News
A Century of MBA Case Studies: Exacting Examples from Business Life
- January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
BP Amoco (A): Policy Statement on the Use of Project Finance
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
Following the BP/Amoco merger in December 1998, CFO David Watson asked Bill Young to recommend when and under what circumstances the firm should use external project finance instead of internal corporate funds to finance new capital investments. As part of this...
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Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "BP Amoco (A): Policy Statement on the Use of Project Finance." Harvard Business School Case 201-054, January 2001. (Revised May 2010.)
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
intuitive about the process” Emotions such as satisfaction and elation can be quite rare in negotiation, says Andy Wasynczuk, MBA Class of 1953 Senior Lecturer of Business...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships
broadly, fellowships enrich the entire HBS community by exposing students to people and concepts they might never encounter otherwise. The generosity of donors makes it possible for the School to create a View Details
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fellowships
- Web
About the Project - Managing the Future of Work
leading urban centers and rural areas We are grateful to our research partners, who have provided pro bono or in-kind support as well as expertise and thought leadership: Accenture BCG Burning Glass Institute Grads of Life Lightcast...
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- Fast Answer
Companies: date of original initial public offering
can search by date to locate all companies that went public during a specific timeframe: Type 'Screener' into the main search bar along the top of the page to load the Screener App. Change the Universe to Deals and Asset View Details
- 2023
- Article
Association Between Regulatory Submission Characteristics and Recalls of Medical Devices Receiving 510(k) Clearance
By: Alexander O. Everhart, Soumya Sen, Ariel D. Stern, Yi Zhu and Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Importance: Most regulated medical devices enter the U.S. market via the 510(k) regulatory submission pathway, wherein manufacturers demonstrate that applicant devices are “substantially equivalent” to 1 or more “predicate” devices (legally marketed medical devices...
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Everhart, Alexander O., Soumya Sen, Ariel D. Stern, Yi Zhu, and Pinar Karaca-Mandic. "Association Between Regulatory Submission Characteristics and Recalls of Medical Devices Receiving 510(k) Clearance." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 329, no. 2 (2023): 144–156.
- January 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Course Overview Note
'Made in India': Human Capital at the Base of the Pyramid (TN)
By: Michel Anteby, Felicia Khan and John Ng
This teaching note, used in conjunction with excerpts from the 2010 documentary film "Made in India" (directed and produced by Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha) provides students with an opportunity to explore what constitutes human capital and the moral issues...
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Anteby, Michel, Felicia Khan, and John Ng. "'Made in India': Human Capital at the Base of the Pyramid (TN)." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 413-092, January 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
men resolved to set up a program in their rural county that would bring in students from each district high school for a daily class in entrepreneurship. Dubbed CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) by its first group View Details
- June 2011
- Supplement
Q and A Sessions with Akhil Gupta, Deputy Group CEO and Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises
This tape includes the highlights of question and answer sessions with Akhil Gupta, Deputy Group CEO and Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises, one of the largest mobile phone companies in India. The video focuses on the challenges and lessons learned from Bharti's...
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Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Innovation and Invention;
Telecommunications Industry;
India
Martinez Jerez, F. Asis, and Lisa Brem. "Q and A Sessions with Akhil Gupta, Deputy Group CEO and Managing Director of Bharti Enterprises." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 111-710, June 2011.
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
mixture of admiration and scorn. But students recognize that resume-gods are merely the extreme version of themselves: In discussions of this book, a student will often tell a...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
diversity and inclusion. Brian Ratajczak (MBA 2022) was a little nervous, too. “If you are talking about finance, and someone says something you disagree with, there’s probably not going to be a lot of emotions stirred up,” says...
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- 17 Feb 2022
- News
When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
One day in 2010 the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten announced that thousands of employees would soon conduct business in a tongue most View Details
- 2009
- Book
Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools
By: Stacey M. Childress, Dennis Doyle and David A. Thomas
Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement. In chapters organized around six...
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Transformation;
Education;
Leadership;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Improvement;
Social Issues
Childress, Stacey M., Dennis Doyle, and David A. Thomas. Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2009. (Foreword by David Gergen.)
- 12 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
Four titans who defined a new era in business during the past decade recently concluded their terms: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, Unilever’s Paul Polman, Mayo Clinic’s John Noseworthy, and US Bancorp’s Richard Davis. When they became CEOs, the Great Recession View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
THEMIS: A Framework for Cost-Benefit Analysis of COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Michael Lingzhi Li and Saksham Soni
Since December 2019, the world has been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 150 million confirmed cases and 3 million confirmed deaths worldwide. To combat the spread of COVID-19, governments have issued unprecedented non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs),...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Health Pandemics;
Policy;
Framework;
Cost vs Benefits;
Outcome or Result;
United States;
Germany;
Brazil;
Singapore;
Spain
Bertsimas, Dimitris, Michael Lingzhi Li, and Saksham Soni. "THEMIS: A Framework for Cost-Benefit Analysis of COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions." Working Paper, April 2022.
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Distinct Yet of a Piece
calculus in a high-school classroom. Distinct individuals, distinctive careers. Yet with their varied backgrounds, interpersonal skills, HBS education, and sterling records of business and community achievement, one feels that the eight...
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