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- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
publicly-held companies. Novo Nordisk Foundation, owner of Novo Nordisk (the world’s leader in diabetes and obesity care), has a net worth of approximately 94 billion euros and awarded 1.2 billion euros in grants in 2021, putting it in...
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- 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...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in...
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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 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...
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- 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
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Carmen Nobel
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and...
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- 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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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Carmen Nobel
- 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...
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Carmen Nobel
- 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...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he...
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