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- 05 Jul 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?
then exploded in our collective faces." US auto manufacturers, following Toyota’s lead, were at times maintaining just half a day of inventory of some parts supplied domestically—until the pandemic. What we had come to take for granted then exploded in our collective...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support. The effort openly recognizes the effect mental health will have on the country’s ability to recover economically from war. “When the shooting is over and the smoke clears, Ukraine needs to be able...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
city’s darkest days, during the drug and murder epidemics of the late 1980s and early 1990s. When Mayor Marion Barry was busted in an FBI sting for smoking crack in 1990, Dixon’s mother, Sharon Pratt, won the election to replace him,...
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- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
any favors when we panic about our own goals. Freaked out because you smoked a cigarette after vowing to quit? The resultant cortisol boost may induce you cheat on your vow further, and sneak another one. Losing sleep because you cheated...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Portrait Project
Sonakshi Bose
scrambled to understand and explain what was happening, As they tried to locate our mostly Manhattan-bound parents (including my father), As we watched the same TV-loop of smoke I sat down next to the girl who teased me. It’s not that she...
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
and Natural Environment Division for "Voluntary Environmental Management Initiatives: Smoke Signals or Smoke Screens?" (University of California at Berkeley, 2005). Michael W. Toffel: Winner of the 2006...
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- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
on-the-ground advocacy—to go get a free eye exam or a blood pressure check-up. Easy. Your basic principles of sales and promotion will carry the day. If your charge is minimizing smoking or drug use, well, your job becomes rather more...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
behavior affect them today. For example, if a rational addict learns that taxes on cigarettes are going to double in six months, she may be less likely to take up smoking today. Hussam remains agnostic on whether the behavior of addicts...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
inability to socialize is more likely to influence late majority and laggard groups to take the vaccine than health-related messages. Similarly, past research about preventing teenagers from smoking cigarettes found that highlighting the...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Action Plan: A New ’Cue
bicycle shop, Get a Grip, in Chicago. On the weekends, he and his buddies traveled to barbecue festivals around the country, camping out and staying up all night smoking ribs, brisket, and pulled pork. “I’m pretty competitive,” Corsello...
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April White
Arthur D. Little
Little founded the largest unendowed commercial industrial research laboratory in the United States. Little, who was initially interested in chemistry of cellulose and its application in production, gradually expanded his interest to include other fields of applied...
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- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
On Tuesday, the family of deceased musician and celebrated marijuana user Bob Marley announced what it claimed will be the first global cannabis brand, Marley Natural. Suddenly, marijuana is a growth industry—and increasingly, a legal one. When the View Details
- Portrait Project
Natasha Pereira-Kamath
lungfuls of oily smoke from diesel generators. In search of causes, I find consequences: chronic asthma, lost productivity, and infrastructure instability. As an adult, I refuse to accept intermittent darkness. My new adventure is to...
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Bari Schwartz
It began with an organ, perched high above the grandstand. The visiting team dotted the outfield, smoke from grilling hot dogs wafted up the aisles, navy jerseys blanketed the stadium bowl. Game on the line, the batter strode toward the...
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Scott Quigley
Smoke billowed from the North Tower. As I watched from my freshman college dorm room at Brown, a second plane flew into the South Tower. Andrew, a new friend, asked, "What do we do, Scott?" My answer was not immediate. But my...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
cigarette advertising in 38 magazines. Cigarette brands were defined as "youth" brands if they were smoked by more than 5 percent of the smokers in eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades; magazines were classified as "youthoriented" if at...
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Amer M. Lahham
relentless. And I am finally here. Next to me is my Israeli counterpart. He too likes drinking whiskey and smoking cigars. We sign, we shake hands, and we laugh. It is my turn to make a speech, and I am no longer that thirteen year old....
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look
on all the professors we had that day. At the beginning of each class, Rick hid behind the blackboard wearing a Groucho Marx mask and started smoking. Each professor finally noticed the smoke and moved the board, only to discover Rick....
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
(Javier Larrea/Getty Images) Today: Most smart homes connect basic electronic devices such as lights, locks, smoke detectors, security cameras, and thermostats. Tomorrow: Homes will be fully outfitted with smart appliances, which can make...
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April White
- Portrait Project
Jamie Wilkie
When I was 10, my dad and I bought a run-down 1965 Volkswagen Beetle with the hopes of restoring the forgotten antique. Every Saturday, we’d work for hours on the engine and body while we listened to Van Morrison and my dad smoked cigars....
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