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- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
customer request, instead of what the rest of the industry is doing, which is just looking at the outputs of the governmental models,” says Elkabetz. For airlines, access to more accurate weather forecasts—both short and long term—enables decisions that improve View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
stories (the ability to communicate the data to users), and safety (preparation for severe weather, including using social media). Now he has questions about how much to invest in the declining but still important television business; how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
identified, and it appears that statutory deadlines for new regulations will not be met. The challenge will be to balance the trade-offs between preserving affordable credit to low-income families, protecting consumers, and ensuring the View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
a culture that provides excellent service, as well as attracts and retains talent that will embody what your company represents. The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge John D. Macomber: Safety will become a competitive advantage Companies who serve patrons in person—whether it’s restaurants or airlines or ballparks... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- March 2021 (Revised January 2023)
- Background Note
The Pandemic's Impact on the U.S. Food System
By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
This note is intended not as a comprehensive account but as a starting point for discussion about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. food system. Written in late 2020, the note describes, in part through the voices of industry leaders, how the pandemic... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Agribusiness; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Leadership; Change Management; Safety; Health; Health Pandemics; Disruption; Adaptation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Consumer Behavior; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center
student essays that highlight their reflections. When we visited LM Wind Power’s Test and Validation Center in Lunderskov, Denmark, we saw how they work to optimize the efficiency and safety of their blades through a variety of testing... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
take $50 million over the next five years to demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of their solution. “That gives us time to still make a difference,” Payne notes. “If this takes 15 years, we’ve passed the tipping point—passed the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
conditions and often with extraordinary and unheralded courage -- to fulfill the mission they have been given by the President and the American people as the nation's first line of defense. When the safety of the United States or its... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019). Sarah Kessler, “One Risk of Remote Work: Being Forgotten,” The New York Times, August 5, 2021. Donald... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
to appeal to young would-be smokers. But corporate distrust runs so deep for some consumers that constructive dialogue is virtually impossible; consider vaccination skeptics who criticize Big Pharma’s influence, despite considerable research that upholds vaccines’... View Details
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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services
them from reaching the research storage. But personal devices may not have similar protections. If you should receive a message from HBS IT or RCS about virus-containing files in your home or project spaces, please remove these as soon as possible to ensure the View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
percentage increase in nurses' perceptions of safety improvement were no better than that of 48 control hospitals. Thus, we investigated drivers of successful program implementation within the set of treatment hospitals. We found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
Movement for Black Lives, and follow the organizations listed above on social media or subscribe to their newsletters to get invitations to take action. Consider supporting a campaign to redirect police funding to alternative community View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
which provides safety and environmental services and products to the energy industry, knew the city from his undergraduate days at Rice University. He moved back in 2010, and when he did, his mentor, L. E. Simmons (MBA 1972), president of... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
supporting evidence for a unit's portfolio of improvement projects was associated with implementation success. Learn-how was positively associated with implementation success, but learn-what was not. Psychological safety was associated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
you get in, welcome to the HBS community! You have flexibility to follow your heart’s desire for a few years with the safety of knowing you have HBS. If you fall in love with what you’re doing, you can defer your admission. Plus, you... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
savings for the government would be lower in the US. But the same forces would still be at play, and since American workers have less protective safety nets overall, including on health care, they might value the increased employment... View Details