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  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s garment workers in Bangladesh. When... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Jan 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel & Jodi L. Short; Manufacturing; Public Administration; Accounting; Service
  • April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Voatz

By: Mitchell Weiss and Maddy Halyard
Nimit Sawhney scrolled through the tweet stream on his phone, unsure of what to make of it on August 6, 2018 or how to respond. Voatz, the Boston-based startup he co-founded and led, provided a mobile-voting platform. In March of 2018, had successfully piloted the new... View Details
Keywords: Mobile App; Business Startups; Voting; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Safety; Cybersecurity
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Weiss, Mitchell, and Maddy Halyard. "Voatz." Harvard Business School Case 819-123, April 2019. (Revised June 2019.)

    King C. Gillette

    Gillette invented the safety razor, creating a new U.S. industry. In 1903, Gillette sold 51 of his razors and 168 blades. He increased these numbers dramatically so that by the end of the next year, he had sold 90,000 razors and 12.4... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
    • September 2015
    • Article

    Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago

    By: Abel Kho, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers and et al.
    Objective
    To design and implement a tool that creates a secure, privacy preserving linkage of electronic health record (EHR) data across multiple sites in a large metropolitan area in the United States (Chicago, IL), for use in clinical... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Customers; Safety; Rights; Ethics; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Chicago
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    Kho, Abel, John Cashy, Kathryn Jackson, Adam Pah, Satyender Goel, Jorn Boehnke, John Eric Humphries, Scott Duke Kominers, and et al. "Design and Implementation of a Privacy Preserving Electronic Health Record Linkage Tool in Chicago." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 22, no. 5 (September 2015): 1072–1080.
    • January 2003 (Revised August 2005)
    • Case

    CareGroup

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Robert D. Austin
    Describes the circumstances leading to the three-and-a-half-day collapse of a major hospital group's IS capabilities. Identifies the technical reasons for the failure, management steps in dealing with the problem short term, and the long-term lessons they believe they... View Details
    Keywords: Information Management; Information Technology; Safety; Crisis Management; Infrastructure; Health Industry
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    McFarlan, F. Warren, and Robert D. Austin. "CareGroup." Harvard Business School Case 303-097, January 2003. (Revised August 2005.)
    • 2013
    • Article

    Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews

    By: Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi and Michael Luca
    Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Food; Governance Compliance; Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Public Administration Industry; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Kang, Jun Seok, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi, and Michael Luca. "Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews." Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2013): 1443–1448.
    • November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
    • Supplement

    Foxconn Technology Group (B)

    By: Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim and Beiting Cheng
    The (B) case presents Foxconn’s plan to replace manual labor with robots and move some of its employees to more interesting and sophisticated jobs. View Details
    Keywords: Multinational; Labor Market; Electronic Manufacturing Services; Health & Wellness; Robots; Automation; Social Responsibility; Employee Relationship Management; Safety; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China
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    Eccles, Robert G., George Serafeim, and Beiting Cheng. "Foxconn Technology Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 112-058, November 2011. (Revised February 2012.)
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    What Have We Learned From Market Design?

    By: Alvin E. Roth
    This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety
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    Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned From Market Design?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13530, October 2007.
    • Web

    Bike Policy | About

    deterrent to theft and can help in the recovery of stolen bicycles. The serial number is recorded and an identifying sticker is placed on your bicycle. HUPD Bike and Safety Laws Locking & Storage For the security of your bicycle, it... View Details
    • 02 Sep 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

    startup funds—and what allowed them to take the risk of launching a company." Curiosity eventually led to his doctoral dissertation: a series of studies showing a definitive link between the social safety net and entrepreneurship. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 07 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 7

    comparative advantages of intermediate versus final disclosure policies in fostering innovation. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2288746 October 2014 The Compass (Newsletter of the American Society of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2012
    • Article

    Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention

    By: Douglas E. Levy, Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough and Anne N. Thorndike

    Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals.

    Purpose: To test whether a two-phase point-of-purchase intervention improved food choices across racial, socioeconomic (job... View Details

    Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Advantage; Cost
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    Levy, Douglas E., Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough, and Anne N. Thorndike. "Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 43, no. 1 (September 2012): 240–248.
    • May 1995
    • Background Note

    Note on Product Liability

    By: Willis M. Emmons III, Monica Brand and Greg Keller
    This note provides an overview to the evolution and current state of product liability law in the United States. View Details
    Keywords: Goods and Commodities; Legal Liability; Safety; Product Marketing; Business Strategy; Policy; Government and Politics; United States
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    Emmons, Willis M., III, Monica Brand, and Greg Keller. "Note on Product Liability." Harvard Business School Background Note 795-049, May 1995.
    • 17 Sep 2020
    • News

    HBS Goes Back To School

    safety concerns. “In many cases, we're not just meeting the new requirements—if the equipment allows us to do so, we're striving to exceed them,” says Stewart. AUGUST 28 In a virtual welcome to the MBA Class of 2022, Dean Nitin Nohria,... View Details
    • Fall 2022
    • Book Review

    Book review of 'Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America,' by James P. Kraft

    By: Melanie Sheehan
    Keywords: Safety; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk and Uncertainty
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    Sheehan, Melanie. "Book review of 'Havoc and Reform: Workplace Disasters in Modern America,' by James P. Kraft." Business History Review 96, no. 3 (Fall 2022): 701–703.
    • April 2020
    • Article

    Regulatory Oversight, Causal Inference, and Safe and Effective Health Care Machine Learning

    By: Ariel Dora Stern and W. Nicholson Price, II
    In recent years, the applications of Machine Learning (ML) in the health care delivery setting have grown to become both abundant and compelling. Regulators have taken notice of these developments and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been engaging... View Details
    Keywords: Machine Learning; Causal Inference; Health Care and Treatment; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    Stern, Ariel Dora, and W. Nicholson Price, II. "Regulatory Oversight, Causal Inference, and Safe and Effective Health Care Machine Learning." Biostatistics 21, no. 2 (April 2020): 363–367.
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Advance Recovery and the Development of Resilient Organizations and Societies

    By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
    Societies face a wide array of significant hazards-ranging from the possibility of natural disasters to industrial accidents to large-scale terrorist incidents. View Details
    Keywords: Natural Disasters; Society; Organizations; Growth and Development; National Security; Safety
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    Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Advance Recovery and the Development of Resilient Organizations and Societies." In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Re, Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010.

      Paul H. O'Neill

      Not only did O'Neill lead Alcoa to become the world's largest aluminum conglomerate, he gave the company a solid image of integrity, emphasizing life-long learning by all employees, and making occupational safety and environmental... View Details
      Keywords: Metals
      • 08 Oct 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

      Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace safety infractions,... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
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