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  • 2021
  • Article

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
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value

By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The goal of this paper is to leverage household-level data to improve food-related policies aimed at increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables (FVs) among low-income households. Currently, several interventions target areas where residents have limited... View Details
Keywords: Food Deserts; Food Access; Food Policy; Causal Inference; Food; Nutrition; Poverty; Government Administration
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  • 15 Nov 2018
  • Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • October 2023
  • Case

Driving Sustainability at AB InBev

By: Ethan Rouen and Antonio Manuel Oftelie
It was the height of the summer in 2022, and Michel Doukeris, the CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), and Peter Kraemer, the company’s Chief Supply Officer, gazed across the vast desert surrounding Zacatecas, Mexico. They were visiting their Grupo Modelo Brewery,... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Transformation; Decisions; Environmental Sustainability; Leading Change; Growth Management; Business Model; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Game On

It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Bain, World Food Programme, Goldman Sachs, Brandeval HBS ACTIVITIES HBS Show, Wine & Cuisine Society Yaoxin Ding While serving as a product manager at Fiat, Yaoxin worked closely with... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

and by definition it’s a failure. This is where the sense of purpose and the power of the narrative makes a difference, and where allies can help bolster the determination of the leader and the working team. I think of truly innovative change as wandering in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man

Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) (photo by Sidney Erthal) Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) (photo by Sidney Erthal) A self-described “experiment in community and art,” Burning Man takes place each year in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert during the week... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • Web

Israel - Global Activities 2021

program director of the School’s Agribusiness Seminar, to author the case. “We are in the middle of a desert without a lot of rainfall.” Reinhardt, who notes that Golan’s on-the-ground presence in Israel was instrumental in writing the... View Details
  • Web

Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship | Baker Library

Revolution: Food Deserts This video segment from Penn State Public Broadcasting’s Geospatial Revolution describes one Philadelphia community’s successful efforts to use GIS technology to identify and solve... View Details
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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

href="https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/psu10sci.vid.geospatial.fooddeserts/geospatial-revolution-food-deserts/#.WoM8eiXwbIV" style="word-wrap: break-word;">Geospatial Revolution: Food Deserts This... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Streamlining the Supermarket

center closest to you, which may be attached to the back of a gas station or convenience store. “Because of their low-cost design and size [most will be 3,000 to 5,000 square feet] we can put fulfillment centers in thousands of places,” Pedró says, including urban... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

satisfaction. The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You Really Need to Know about Our Most Controversial Food by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Lauson Publishing Inc.) This book raises more than 200 of the most common questions that come up... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

concluded. He added: “It’s insane that it takes 660 gallons of water to make one cotton shirt, 92.5 gallons to make a polyester shirt, and 2,000 gallons for one pair of jeans. Because our food systems depend on water, we use 37 gallons to... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • News

The Burning Man Project

harsh desert conditions for a week, including all their food and water. There's no money. There's no electricity. But there are 70,000 people willing to share and have an amazing experience with you. Hanna:... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

initial caution, growth when it came was both fast and steady. When he sold the company in 1999 to the Spanish food conglomerate Campofrio, TelePizza spanned six countries with more than 600 outlets selling some $250 million worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

and a love story. It traces an epic journey from inside the human mind to the vastness of space, from AIs battling in the desert to the peace of a mountain refuge. It asks social, spiritual, and philosophical questions that will linger.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

Holger Rathgeber (Portfolio) The authors use a parable of a stressed meerkat community in the Kalahari Desert to consider why organizations rise and fall and how they can rise again in the face of adversity. Ashley's War: The Untold Story... View Details