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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
privately financed project that will provide enough desalinated seawater to provide drinking water for 300,000 San Diegans. The propriety of having private companies provide a public good like water may be controversial, but the economics...
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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Business School Case 514-054 Diageo: Innovating for Africa Diageo, the world's leading premium drinks business, had a long history in Africa starting from its beer brand Guinness first exported to Sierra Leone in 1827. By 2013, 13% of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in our own best interests. This is as true of health decisions as it is of economic ones. An array of biases, limits on cognition,...
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Anna Secino
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
fountain, an actual fountain, not a water fountain. So I had no idea that the thing you drank water out of was called a water fountain. And they all thought I was talking about the drinking fountain. And I had so many of those moments...
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- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Africa. We hiked for about eight days in the bush, far removed from any civilization. No roads. No cabins. Slept under the stars in between the animals. And one day, our guides told us we were going to hike to find some fresh drinking...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
emeritus Jim Austin and his wife, Cathy. It’s a welcome opportunity to swap stories about our experiences in the different villages and reflect on what we’ve seen while touring the Austins’ gardens, which provide vegetables to the local markets. More than a few...
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- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
big word!), yesterday she soaked her shirt while drinking water and we talked through the concept of wet. Today we sat on the balcony and watched the rain and she said wet! These little moments that I get to share with her bring...
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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
aerialists. You will see a flaming piano being thrown by a trebuchet. And if your mind is closed and it's different from what you expected, you'll miss out. If you open your mind and just drink from the firehose, you will find that you'll...
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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
not a solution. Universal insurance enables the solution. The only solution to the healthcare problems in America is to dramatically improve the value we are getting for the money we are spending. Q: People who have bad health habits, who smoke, View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
that they make, for example, is believing that they’ll actually find satisfaction through money, power, and fame. Sooner or later, they become a success addict. If you’re an alcoholic, you can’t actually drink so much alcohol that you’re...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment, investors are necessarily more focused...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
change can level the playing field. Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment,...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Hamermesh, Mona Sinha, and Elizabeth VrolykHarvard Business School Case 812-020 Healthpoint Services sought to address rural India's shortage of quality and affordable healthcare with a multi-service platform that comprised telemedical health clinics called...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
make its core snack and soft drink products healthier), while at the same time maintaining short-term profitability. The evolution of the product portfolio was part of a larger effort to implement a new strategic vision, encapsulated in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
matter. This performance wasn’t going to be judged on technical proficiency or exacting execution. There was still no gas or drinking water in the Lower Ninth Ward. Tens of thousands of residents were still displaced. There was an ongoing...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
organizations. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55936 forthcoming Psychological Science Using Behavioral Science to Inform the Design of Sugary Drink Portion Limit Policies By: John, Leslie, Grant E....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) was born in Detroit, the first in his family to graduate from college. His Dad was a Chrysler factory worker whose schooling ended in fifth grade, his Mom a homemaker. But...
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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Case 706-447 Examines the industry structure and competitive strategy of Coca-Cola and Pepsi over 100 years of rivalry. New challenges in 2006 include boosting flagging carbonated soft drink (CSD) sales and finding new revenue streams....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
for a customer check-in. His days at HBS began at 7 a.m. and ended at 1 or 2 a.m., always with the next day’s cases and a French-English dictionary at his side. A classmate from Red Bull shared plenty of the company’s energy drink to keep...
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