Filter Results
:
(84)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(84)
- News (21)
- Research (61)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (32)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(84)
- News (21)
- Research (61)
- Multimedia (3)
- Faculty Publications (32)
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
medium-to-high-income earners. We created interactive maps to show where different US counties fall both in terms of overall inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient, and where this inequality is concentrated through the more specific Ortega parameters, which is...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Joint Venture
The human knee is a marvel. It’s the hinge at the center of our gait, the evolutionary adaptation that makes humans the only fully bipedal mammals on the planet. But the knee also is a complicated and vulnerable knot of bone, muscle, and sinew. Nearly everyone knows...
View Details
Keywords:
Shoshi Parks
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
created sustained success. The Visionary: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi India-born Indra Nooyi immigrated to the United States in 1978 to study at Yale University. She joined PepsiCo in 1994 and rose rapidly through its ranks. When she was named CEO in 2006, Nooyi recognized...
View Details
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
several dishes. But it's also part of the "New Fast Food" initiative Su developed in 2005 in response to concerns about the role of fast-food restaurants in the obesity epidemic—concerns that he shares and takes responsibility...
View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
conflict. Roosevelt replaced Stevens with Colonel George Washington Goethals. Goethals was a cold, withdrawn man of many prejudices, including ones both common and uncommon for the time. He disdained blacks and loathed obese people, with...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when...
View Details
- 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...
View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come...
View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
agencies and automotive manufacturers that try to improve automotive safety benefit from research using cadavers. It does not help that many users seek the same "good" type of cadavers. A good specimen, in this context, means a young cadaver, one not overly...
View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
people worldwide who suffer from this often-fatal disease. With a goal of reversing “diabesity”—the twin epidemic of diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world—Jana Care is building biosensors and software apps that can...
View Details
- Portrait Project
Xiao Wang
better care of ourselves. We go straight from high-achievement to hypertension, obesity, and depression without ever stopping and thinking about why. We should be healthier, we need to be healthier, and with the right support, we will be healthier. My own dream is that...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Chicago community, Edelman finds it natural to give back to society. A Civil War buff, he is an active board member of the New-York Historical Society. His interest in fitness and fighting obesity attracted him to the board of the Centers...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Hunter (MBA 1981) via LinkedIn IN RESPONSE: David, I would go a step further. Yes, there is a lot that can be done to improve care delivery; your idea is a good one, though even that is just a Band-Aid on the bigger problem. When the larger ecosystem results in...
View Details
Keywords:
Health, Social Assistance
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
he says. The obesity epidemic? People need places to exercise, especially low-income folks who can't afford a membership to the local fitness club, says Rogers. So the Trust works to create parks and playgrounds in the nation's cities....
View Details
- Profile
Pato Bichara
beyond? After graduation, I’d like to go back to Mexico and get involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. I believe entrepreneurship is the way to tackle inequality in Mexico and bring economic development. Mexico has huge obesity...
View Details
Keywords:
Consulting
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
obesity is contagious: If my family and friends are obese, the likelihood of me being obese is much higher. Later studies refuted that claim because of the inherent problem of homophily, which simply means...
View Details
Keywords:
Jen McFarland Flint
- Profile
Nabihah Sachedina
Tactically, the Partnership is responsible for thirteen priority programs, ranging from mental health and cancer to childhood obesity and diabetes. But strategically, it's changing the very way health care is managed and delivered in...
View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817080-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-106 Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery? Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the largest managed care...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2016
- News
The Seeds of Learning
“In Chicago, one in four students are obese and we spend as a nation a quarter of trillion dollars on diabetes, and that number is growing. More than 90 percent of that is related to diet and exercise. “School gardens are the most...
View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
“COVID-19 is especially deadly for people with underlying conditions, including those related to poor diet, like obesity and diabetes. That is exacerbating existing health disparities with deep roots in food apartheid.” Gardeneers had to...
View Details