Safety - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

colleagues at Brigham and Women's Hospital worked with safety experts at the aerospace and defense giant Boeing, and developed a checklist for surgeons. Among the heretofore commonly-missed items on the list: making sure everyone in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

are, at the same time, exercising cost-cutting efforts (such as low wages, poor benefits, no health insurance for many employees in the case of Wal-Mart, fines for safety violations in the case of BP) in dealing with their employees.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 May 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

insurance persuades consumers across the nation to deposit funds in higher interest CDs in Puerto Rico banks and in non bricks-and-mortar, low-cost Internet banks such as ING Direct. Safety First Financial brands today must address the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

meet internal production benchmarks associated with salient calendar periods...,” according to the researchers. Salespeople who scramble to meet end-of-term quotas are familiar with the phenomenon. Read the paper: Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

country, they yearned for shelter, a sanctuary in a new land. That shelter could be a tenement, a farmstead, a ramshackle cottage. For families, home had a connotation of safety and stability. Banks did not lend with 30-year amortizing... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

Blog

Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application

tries to bring the human side of risk management to the fore. "I recently visited our team in Singapore and used the opportunity to present some lessons I took away from the Columbia space shuttle mission case and the importance of psychological View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

In the Zone

the organization’s top leadership role in the midst of a pandemic came with unexpected challenges, which included overseeing the launch of a hybrid teaching model in two of HCZ’s charter schools, implementing safety protocols, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

products more appropriately. But, first, they themselves must become truly consumer-centric. From government: The federal government also needs to step in and provide safety measures for insurers who take on riskier consumers. Many... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

outside of the facility highlighting the company’s vision, mission, values, safety standards & key personnel. Students learned that India’s power distribution companies (DISCOMs) cap the solar capacity of sites like the one we visited... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Righting the Ship

Fourth, Shackleton made his men believe that they could do it, that they could all get back to safety alive. How did he do this, create such self-belief in his team and thus make them part of the solution? Partly by his showing up every... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

building until we had a school," says O'Neill, "but how do you launch a school without a site?"). But last January, Shackleton Schools, Inc. - named for the intrepid Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who brought his crew to View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 May 2015
News

Getting Ready for Success

social impact, measured by such factors as higher tax contributions and lower health care costs. “Moreover, what people might not quantify,” she says, “is that our alumni’s success stories create positive ripples in their communities and economic View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

intake linked to commercial products. Media (including social media) coverage about the safety and cost of many consumer goods, both medical (drugs, devices) and nonmedical, reflect profound public concerns. Longstanding societal scrutiny... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless Organization offers practical... View Details