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- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
this case: http://hbr.org/product/carbon-engineering/an/814040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-019 Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A) In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo American, was considering shutting down... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
safety measures at its facilities, launched online resource centers for different populations affected by COVID-19 such as frontline workers, ramped up telemental health care, and created training programs to help hospitals and... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
but people will still refer to it as Boaty I say take the gift and run with it!” Frank D. did indeed run with it, suggesting that “The life boats could be Life Boaties. He (apparently referring to the gender of the boat) could teach kids science lessons and water View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
cater to these preferences and beliefs by engineering securities perceived to be safe but exposed to neglected risks. Because the risks are neglected, security issuance is excessive. As investors eventually recognize these risks, they fly back to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Changing Context of Pharmaceutical Risk Mitigation Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Periodical:Pharmacy in History 49, no. 2 (2007): 61-75 Abstract In the wake of Vioxx, Avandia, and other recent prominent cases of drugs found to cause side effects after marketing, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Case 615-044 Trouble at Tessei In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen ("bullet") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
Exley and Battles, establishing safety meant preventing unethical breeders from posing as families needing to rehome their dogs. Wagaroo deals with that issue by not allowing owners in the Family2Family program to receive fees for their... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22
company with a strong commitment to the goals of improving the safety of its products and the reliability of its supply chain, the authors of this article suggest that companies have the ability and the means to change their investor base... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006
features designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
expertise affirmation as a dimension of psychological safety is a promising avenue through which to integrate positive identity with existing theory on interpersonal collaboration. Psychological safety is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
Convenience Stores (A) Faced with a persistent robbery problem at his convenience store company, Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac’s of Central Canada, looked to standardize safety measures and devise a new way of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
is yes. The safety of the financial system depends on financial institutions' risk exposure, their ability to absorb losses, their reliance on short-term wholesale funding, transparency, and understanding the interconnectedness between... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27
health care providers have devoted significant efforts to improve performance regarding patient safety and quality of care. To address the lagging involvement of health care providers in the cost component of the value equation, UCLA... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
product reviews, and safety ratings, all moving me forward toward a purchase decision. In short, market categories help establish expectations about products and hence facilitate exchange between buyers and sellers. But how do they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
potentially vaccine-resistant. McKinsey & Co. argues that hoping for herd immunity in the United States and United Kingdom by October 2021 is optimistic, pointing out the likely possibility of “unexpected safety issues emerging with... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
of your prospective deals suddenly evaporates. Losing your fallback—even an uncertain one—means that you're operating without a safety net. Nevertheless, don't overreact and accept unfavorable terms in your one remaining deal. Just... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
consistently outperformed the industry. The company's culture was on display during the power grid failure of September 2003, when two of Continental's three hubs went dark and other airlines grounded their fleets. Continental's employees, displaying initiative and... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52673 Harvard Business School Case 517-050 Beingmate Founded in 2002, Hangzhou, China–based Beingmate was a major producer of infant formula and related products in the high-demand Chinese market. After an infamous 2008... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth . Both books marry a focus on performance with a look at leadership and organizational change—how to enable, support, and empower positive team and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
words, you also need a management plan for your customers. To return to our manufacturing metaphor, the special challenge of service delivery is that your customers routinely wander onto the shop floor-unannounced-and tinker with the assembly line. And yet success... View Details