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- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
yielding better results in particular decisions has been by running experiments that alter blood glucose levels. Could you tell us more about that? A: We ran experiments where we manipulated the amount of sugar people ingested in a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
posters, broadsides, circulars, brochures, souvenir publications, and novelty items along with trade journals and other publications. It will be on display in the north lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center at Harvard Business School until April 5. View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
Special treat: A Parisian pear tart with ice cream. “A sweet tooth is just one tooth. I have a sugar mouth.” Good times: Listening to music, playing piano and guitar, dancing with family and friends. “I like musicians such as Angélique...
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Julia Hanna
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
remain attractive to doctors, insurance providers, and individual patients? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 906-408 Brazil Sugar and the WTO: Agricultural Reform in...
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Sean Silverthorne
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New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures - Blog - Business & Environment
fuel-based, off-grid generator market. PolyoseBio - Makari Krause (MBA 2023) - Polyose Bio is working to divert food waste away from landfills by upcycling it into high-value sugar polymers using a combination of insects and microbial...
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- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
one of the corporation’s flagship projects - the Baseline Study. The project is a longitudinal study of human health that he describes as “like a Google Earth of the body. By accumulating cross-sectional data – such as blood sugar levels,...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
bacteria, previous attempts to manufacture it at industrial scale were stymied by the need for expensive feedstocks such as sugar and seed oils. Full Cycle, however, coaxes microbes to make PHA from organic waste—banana peels, newspapers,...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
terrifying and morale-destroying experience. In addition to maintaining physical health, diet has a strong effect on intellectual and emotional functioning (as anyone who has seen a toddler melt down from too much sugar understands). The...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
competitive challenges facing software companies. Their market success depends largely on persuading the above-mentioned developers to write for their platforms. A new research paper suggests that the two sides can serve their own best interests by meeting with little...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
sells nearly 2 million vehicles per year in India and other developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. "Given my family background, I knew I wanted to be a businessman by the time I was about 12," says Bajaj. His grandfather had bought a steel...
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- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
imagine it. On Election Day, Brand Trump will mean different things to different people but that doesn't matter if he gets their votes. Imagine you are looking at a box of Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes. Clinton would prefer you read the...
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- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can grow microalgae to produce...
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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil; it is also the world's largest exporter of ethanol for vehicle fuels. Rubens Ometto, Cosan's CEO, has staked...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
critical links in many global supply chains, particularly on the upstream supply end, so the group of 12 HBS faculty members and a colleague from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences visited companies that deal in View Details
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
carries a variety of healthy items and foods from “home” such as their famous fresh sugar cane juice. Casabe’s impact potential spans three areas: first, increasing income and wealth creation for the BIPOC community; second, supporting...
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- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can grow microalgae to produce...
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- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
co-founded this summer. PicoGreens is engineering single-celled algae (microalgae) to use as “crop plants” that sustainably produce foods and food ingredients. Instead of growing entire sugarcane stalks just to harvest their sugar, we can grow microalgae to produce...
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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
it. "We have the medical knowledge to do it. And it's not being done. Just under one-half of identified diabetics in this country don't have their blood sugar under control," she said. Diabetes manifests as Type I or Type II...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
like other Marwari, were traders who after World War I transitioned into manufacturing, including sugar manufacturing and steel rolling. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/807028-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case...
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Dina Gerdeman