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  • December 2010
  • Article

Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009

By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for-or even imagined? What forms of organisations are likely to be best able to cope with such... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Management Practices and Processes; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Boundaries; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Sole Mates

siblings, get to work every day on time, work toward a degree at night (paying their own tuition), and manage to save enough to slowly build a house. While generally excited by democracy, Liberians are understandably impatient for roads... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs
  • March 2022
  • Teaching Note

Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham

By: Katherine Coffman and Olivia Hull
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 921-006, “Inclusive Innovation at Mass General Brigham." This case invites students to explore the individual and structural factors that lead to an under-representation of women in male-dominated domains, and to think critically about... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion; Gender Gap; Gender Inclusivity; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Student Conferences, at a Glance

Cash, Jr. Professional Achievement Award: Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983/JD 1984), managing director, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Morgan Stanley This year’s conference — named for one of the School’s first African-American alumni —... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    Lawrence A. Bossidy

    Through a number of sweeping initiatives including the introduction of a total quality management program, Six Sigma, and the reduction of the workforce by 20%, Bossidy turned AlliedSignal around. When... View Details
    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
    • 06 Jun 2023
    • Blog Post

    Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production

    facility management. To improve scalability and production efficiency, they installed a chip system throughout the rose garden. Before cutting the roses, the growers use a chip sensor that helps monitor the View Details
    • November 1994 (Revised April 2012)
    • Case

    National Electric Corporation

    By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
    A company meets financial analysis year-end earnings per share estimates, which have been progressively lowered during the year. View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Quality; Business Earnings; Stock Shares; Analysis
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    • 01 Dec 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

    “Getting the right leaders and managers is important. But putting the right management system in place enhances the performance of all existing team members. People come and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 26 Oct 2011
    • News

    On Top, Down Under

    Fookes: Leading the way at one of Australia's premier real estate firms. Photo courtesy Mark Fookes Mark Fookes (AMP 178, 2010) is head of investment management at The GPT Group, a Sydney, Australia, firm that View Details
    Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
    • 10 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 10

      Publications 2006 Regional Studies Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract—We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 Feb 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

    efforts to refine search capabilities. With that in mind, panel moderator Thomas R. Eisenmann, associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at HBS, noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond material on the World Wide... View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Jette
    • Portrait Project

    Mickey Millar

    quality education and health care, living wages, voting rights, fair treatment by police, even access to healthy food and water. For an America we all love to believe in, but which doesn't exist when you're poor and black. A prestigious... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2025
    • News

    Venture: Time Heals All

    Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must... View Details
    Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
    • 01 Dec 2007
    • News

    A Call to Innovation

    decline: an eroding educational system relative to other top nations, a talent drain, the drop-off of spending for basic R&D, and a lackluster telecommunications infrastructure. Meanwhile, Finland — with the same population as... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management; Management; Management; Management; Management
    • 06 Dec 2021
    • News

    Rescue & Recovery

    system. In August 2020, Mercy Corps handed over the management of the system and its distribution network to the local utility company. (Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps) On a Wednesday afternoon in early August,... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
    • 10 Apr 2023
    • Blog Post

    Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis

    and methods have allowed local farmers to use water more efficiently, while also boosting their production and crop yields. Rosario Bazán is the Co-Founder and General Manager of Danper, a leading agribusiness based in Peru. Founded in... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2011
    • News

    ‘Green’ Trailblazers

    and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management
    • 01 Jun 2008
    • News

    A Binary Formula

    buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Management; Management; Management
    • November 1988 (Revised November 1996)
    • Case

    Roy Rogers Restaurants

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    Roy Rogers Restaurants is a subsidiary of Marriott Corp. which sells franchises to own and operate standardized fast food restaurants. Many franchise owners operate more than one restaurant. One of these, presently operating 16 restaurants and committed to develop 30... View Details
    Keywords: Franchise Ownership; Business Model; Cost Management; Quality; Transformation; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 08 Sep 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

    high quality information in the asset management business comes from increases over time in liquidity for investors. Liquidity is typically thought of as a positive, since it allows investors to quickly... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services