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- 2021
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Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities
By: Lu Chen, Donovan Guittieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar and Stacy Springs
Safe, healthy, and resilient food supply chains are essential to ensuring the livelihood and well-being of humans and societies, as well as local and global economies. However, the ability to provide and sustain access to nutritious and safe food continues to be a... View Details
Keywords: Food Safety; Adulteration; Malnutrition; Supply Chain; Health; Government Administration; Food and Beverage Industry
Chen, Lu, Donovan Guittieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar, and Stacy Springs. "Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities." Special Issue on OR Models for Developmental Studies. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 68, no. 8 (2021): 1098–1112.
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
company. So I announced that I would give free hosting for a year and a little capital, to anyone that had something really cool. I came back with some other tech people. We did a contest View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life
navigating conflict and disagreement, listening, and conducting group conversations—across diverse contexts such as work meetings, giving and... View Details
- 28 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet
and connected community.” Segneri explains that being part of this environment gives students and alumni from HBS and Harvard University’s 12... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
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The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts
By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton
Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as... View Details
Keywords: Spontaneous Thoughts; Self-Insight; Meaning; Attribution; Judgment And Decision Making; Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking
Morewedge, Carey K., Colleen Giblin, and Michael I. Norton. "The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 143, no. 4 (August 2014): 1742–1754.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Food Security and Human Mobility During the COVID-19 Lockdown
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo, Xina Li, Nishant Kishore, Satchit Balsari and Tarun Khanna
During the COVID-19 crisis, millions of migrants around the world face food insecurity. This could force migrants to travel during the pandemic, exposing them to health risks and accelerating the spread of the virus. Anecdotal evidence demonstrates the importance of... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Migrants; Food Security; Mobility; Health Pandemics; Food; Distribution; Policy; Global Range
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Wesley W. Koo, Xina Li, Nishant Kishore, Satchit Balsari, and Tarun Khanna. "Food Security and Human Mobility During the COVID-19 Lockdown." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-113, May 2020.
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
Denise Dupré and Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) and Denise Dupré are deeply committed to the creation of innovative programs for students who are driven to create, lead, View Details
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution
Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented (Mobius, Pereiro), or country - or market-specific (Farrell, Lindahl), or descriptive (Friedman, van Agtmael). No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical... View Details
- 25 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change
give alumni a roadmap for addressing climate change. More than 300 alumni attended. Coming out of that, we wanted to find a way to continue to engage alumni. The goal of the whole series is to bring together alumni who are working on... View Details
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
to continue to limit their capacities to allow for better physical distancing. Future diners might well put more of a premium on space than on white tablecloths and candles. Employing a cloud kitchen model can View Details
- Research Summary
Fixed NAVs and Costly Puts: US Money Market Mutual Funds (with Peter Tufano)
US money market mutual fund investors have been granted an implicit put option that allows them to sell or redeem their shares at a fixed price of $1.00, regardless of the market value of the portfolio. We describe the institutional features that give rise... View Details
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A4): Sun Peak: Helen Yang and Mark Walden on "Running Sun on Sun"
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
SunPeak was the largest project Sun Microsystems, Inc. had ever undertaken: shifting Sun's entire business transaction system from a mainframe-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to a Sun-based system. Making the shift would be complicated and financially... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model
Two China-based retail platforms, SHEIN and Temu, are getting a huge amount of attention in the fashion industry these days. I believe that the significance of these platforms goes way beyond the ability to View Details
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
For the last 25 years, the Harvard Business School New Venture Competition (NVC) has provided a forum for founders trying to tackle some of the world’s most challenging business problems. Student and alumni founders refine their ideas... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Final presentations and final farewells
departments: when a company is growing as quickly as Sephora is, it can be hard to keep the channels of communication open, and open frequently. I won’t give the secrets away, but safe to say that the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
influence the other side to give them what they want. As a result, most people do not go into negotiation with the goal of listening to and learning about the other party. This is unfortunate, because to get... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
to start could be paralyzing. Can you talk about a company that's gone through that part of that process and had success? What does that look like in practice? AM: Yeah. I’ll give you an example from the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Marrying Distance and Classroom Education
classroom. They might learn more and actually give back more to the company than they would with a standard teaching method. People who really like the classroomand the interaction in the classroom are less... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne