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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
years after her appointment, Franklin left the White House to become vice chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; later she would serve as US Secretary of Commerce and form a business consultancy. By the time she left government,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
several changes driven by Domonique Foxworth [HBS 2015], president of the NFL Players Association.) New technology, equipment improvements, and reduced-contact practices may also help. In addition, enhanced safety could come from changes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Cash. She elaborated on the community theme, noting, "I've been touched by the dedication with which my former classmates checked on one another's safety and also by the well wishes that have come in from the extended HBS network around... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
Profiles & photographs by Susan Young Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989 CARROLL: Discussing safety awards in her London office. Photographs by Susan Young This year's recipients join a distinguished group. Video portrait of this year's honorees.... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
longest longitudinal study on happiness ever done. And although our wealth has tripled, although our safety has increased, murder rates at an all-time low, people can go further and faster, more educated, happiness has been flat. It's... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
of a team with many top people, larger private investors, and operating managers. Like many others, I've been through some world crises, dislocations, and transitions. In fact, after focusing most of my last 10-plus years as their only kid on the care and View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
Fear—in Safety I mention to every class on the first day of class that my goal is to create a safe but uncomfortable environment. I want the students to be sitting on the edge of their seats, engaged in this learning enterprise. However,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
investment. But when you get to be 65, don’t come and whine to the rest of us. It is not possible for the private sector to do less well than 1 percent a year over the course of somebody’s lifetime. Wouldn’t privatizing Social Security destroy the government View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
Africa, and India, where workers, frequently children—with no safety equipment—tear the electronics apart, exposing themselves to lethal doses of toxins. Then the raw materials are shipped back to where they are needed. Prior to founding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
in the United States for every physical product you touch. And we say if it doesn’t meet certain basic safety standards, you can’t sell it to consumers. But we have nothing like that for financial products. More than 60 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation but also on the design and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
standardized experience, especially in terms of cleaning? MD: It’s true that Airbnb’s model is really being challenged now. It’s harder to establish a sense of trust and safety with an independent host you’ve never met before, versus a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
120,000 employees came to work concerned that best-available safety protocols would not be enough to protect them from a little-understood novel coronavirus. “But now it has evolved into a real moment of pride for us,” Weckert reflects.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
he wasn't given the proper safety equipment. But Heinandez was unable to complain or find alternative employment because of his legal status: He was an undocumented worker. The financial crisis of 2008 added new dimensions to the story.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
Jetta ads use real-time crashes to emphasize the car’s safety. How would you respond to critics? The two permissible ways to demonstrate safety in commercials in the past involved crash dummies or showing a car weaving to avoid an... View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
light-water nuclear plants, the young scientists' reactor runs on radioactive fuel dissolved into liquid molten salt. In theory at least, that means it can use nuclear waste from conventional plants as fuel and that it needs no active, electricity-dependent View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
by Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) (Wiley) Wisdom shows how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are strong but the “general wisdom” about the security has turned negative. Most promising are the stocks Wall Street has marked down without regard to their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
one observer. The planes brought not only much-needed supplies, but also the personnel that Green had unsuccessfully argued against. Here were 14 more men—including Joseph Morton, an Associated Press correspondent who called this “the biggest story of my life”—for... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But the company also faces questions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
compartment of a train to protect them from the widespread rape of young girls and women. So even in my own family, there was silence. In addition to some harrowing, heartbreaking stories, the museum highlights more positive stories of humanity—that many people made it... View Details