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  • 20 Jun 2018
  • News

Graphic images speak to consumers of sugary drinks

  • December 1994 (Revised March 1996)
  • Case

Ciba Consumer Pharmaceuticals' Acutrim: Challenges and Opportunities in Today's Diet Industry

By: Nancy F. Koehn and Rebecca Voorheis
Since its introduction in 1983, Acutrim has been a major player in the U.S. appetite suppressant market and in the broader diet industry. This case focuses on the strategic, regulatory, marketing, and financial challenges this product and the rapidly changing diet... View Details
Keywords: Product Marketing; Market Design; Industry Structures; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Food and Beverage Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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Koehn, Nancy F., and Rebecca Voorheis. "Ciba Consumer Pharmaceuticals' Acutrim: Challenges and Opportunities in Today's Diet Industry." Harvard Business School Case 795-043, December 1994. (Revised March 1996.)
  • November 2004 (Revised September 2019)
  • Background Note

The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004

By: John R. Wells, Gabriel Ellsworth and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2004, the $16.8 billion U.S. health club industry continued its strong record of growth. There were almost 27,000 health clubs in the United States, up from 6,700 two decades earlier, and these clubs claimed 41 million members, over 14% of the U.S. population.... View Details
Keywords: Health Clubs; Fitness; Gyms; Chain; Weight Loss; Obesity; Exercise; Personal Training; Bally Total Fitness; 24 Hour Fitness; YMCA; Gold's Gym; Curves; Franchise; Franchising; Subscription; Promotional Sales; Promotions; Fixed Costs; Body; Accrual Accounting; Revenue Recognition; Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Customers; Demographics; Age; Income; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Employees; Retention; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Contracts; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Operations; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Expansion; Segmentation; Hardware; Health Industry; United States
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Wells, John R., Gabriel Ellsworth, and Benjamin Weinstock. "The U.S. Health Club Industry in 2004." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-445, November 2004. (Revised September 2019.)
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Consumers Punish Firms That Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19

By: Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty and Michael Norton
Two experiments, including one incentive compatible study, examine the impact of cutting pay for executives versus employees in response to COVID-19 on consumer behavior. Study 1 explores the effect of announcing cuts or no cuts to CEO and employee pay, and shows that... View Details
Keywords: Employee Furloughs; CEO Pay Cuts; Pay Ratios; Purchase Intention; Health Pandemics; Employees; Wages; Executive Compensation; Consumer Behavior
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Mohan, Bhavya, Serena Hagerty, and Michael Norton. "Consumers Punish Firms That Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-020, August 2020.
  • March 2008 (Revised January 2010)
  • Background Note

Note on Accountability in the U.S. Health Care System

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Michael Millenson
This note explains how health care providers, health insurers, and consumers are held accountable for their performance and the entrepreneurial opportunities thus created. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Insurance; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Demand and Consumers; Health Industry; United States
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Herzlinger, Regina E., and Michael Millenson. "Note on Accountability in the U.S. Health Care System." Harvard Business School Background Note 308-111, March 2008. (Revised January 2010.)
  • 04 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

HBS professor Regina Herzlinger has been the foremost advocate for what she calls "consumer-driven health care." In this video, she argues that just as consumers drive the retail industry, so too... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
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Managing Health Care Delivery

your organization's performance Identify and address gaps in your health care delivery organization Evaluate and create flexible strategies for ensuring more effective care Respond to new market forces, payment models, and View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

when the information is so complex? The key is not just to get the information to the consumers but to help them process it." Decentralizing approaches to problem solving: Conference attendees and survey respondents generally... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Effective value-based competition will be centered on addressing health conditions over the entire life cycle of care (not the specific components of care such as surgery, office visits, home care, and so on), and competition will shift... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • February 2021
  • Article

Topic Classification of Electric Vehicle Consumer Experiences with Transformer-Based Deep Learning

By: Sooji Ha, Daniel J Marchetto, Sameer Dharur and Omar Isaac Asensio
The transportation sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is a driver of adverse health effects globally. Increasingly, government policies have promoted the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) as a solution to mitigate GHG emissions.... View Details
Keywords: Natural Language Processing; Analytics and Data Science; Environmental Sustainability; Infrastructure; Transportation; Policy
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Ha, Sooji, Daniel J Marchetto, Sameer Dharur, and Omar Isaac Asensio. "Topic Classification of Electric Vehicle Consumer Experiences with Transformer-Based Deep Learning." Art. 100195. Patterns 2, no. 2 (February 2021).
  • 15 Jul 2020
  • Video

The HBS Health Minute: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Deep-Learning Insights to Improve Health Outcomes and Reduce Costs

  • May 2008
  • Teaching Note

Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Teaching Note for [507-006]. View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Food; Age; Health Pandemics; Nutrition; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Disney Consumer Products: Marketing Nutrition to Children (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 508-078, May 2008.
  • September 1988 (Revised November 1988)
  • Supplement

Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (B)

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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Goldberg, Ray A. "Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 589-052, September 1988. (Revised November 1988.)
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Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care

By: Robert S. Huckman
This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines the growing tendency for health care to be delivered in a more distributed manner. Examples of this phenomenon include health IT, teleradiology, medical travel, remote monitoring of chronic medical conditions, and retail... View Details

    Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)

    The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

    Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
    • 02 Aug 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Health Care Research and Prospects

    As is clear to anyone who pays medical insurance premiums or has undergone any kind of medical procedure, the business of health care is an expensive one. The technology is expensive. The research is expensive. The services are expensive.... View Details
    Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health
    • September 1988
    • Supplement

    Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (C)

    By: Ray A. Goldberg
    Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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    Goldberg, Ray A. "Watt Group: Consumer Product and Retailing Doctors (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 589-053, September 1988.
    • 04 Jul 2011
    • News

    Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

    • Video

    Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

    • 13 Jan 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

    about consumer behavior and in using that knowledge to benefit consumers. These firms include McNeil Consumer Health Care, McCann-Erickson, Procter & Gamble, Hallmark, Bank... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
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