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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
percent of the population has credit cards. Go-Jek drivers offered their customers rain gear and surgical masks as protection against the streets’ noxious fumes. And all Go-Jek drivers received road safety training; gone were the... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
didn’t have a safety net, and I had to pay for HBS through loans, so I didn’t know how to make it work. On paper it didn’t make any sense.” Recruiting for private equity to join a major firm seemed like the best choice, and a path he was... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
"People need something that gives them safety and answers to their questions." On another note, Roseanne Landay attributes the current supply of writing on leadership to the fact that during a slow economy, "many companies... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
foldable, totable scooter to get from apartment to bus stop, or subway stop to office. Of course, an increase in bikes, scooters, and mopeds will require new regulations and investment in street design to ensure safety for all users.... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
to a new co-ed school. If the plan failed, Deza knew, her husband no longer offered a financial safety net. But the OPM program had given Deza the confidence to rely on her strategic judgment. Over a month, she outlined the plan with her... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
tracking configuration changes will pay off over the long run. As many companies discovered with quality management and industrial safety programs, perceptions of tradeoffs between security and productivity are often incorrect. Security... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
paid for something that you love to do. Pierre Lorenceau (MBA 2001): Pierre Lorenceau. I think a lot of HBS current students might think they’re not ready for entrepreneurship and they are. Uh, They carry more know-how and more abilities than they might think, and they... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
class. The case was all about this Australian train safety video that went viral. I remember someone showing it to me at a party in San Francisco and loving it. Like, ‘share it with everyone I knew for a week’ loving it. When we dove into... View Details
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Swire Beverages: Implementing CSR in China
By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [410021]. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Health; Organizational Design; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Safety; Natural Environment; Brands and Branding; Interests; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry; China
- February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia
By: Sophus A. Reinert, Sarah Nam, Sisi Pan and Eric Werker
During the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, general manager of corporate responsibility at the integrated steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, observed the unfolding of an Ebola epidemic in Liberia and other countries in West Africa with great concern. On the one hand... View Details
Keywords: Ebola; Epidemics; Ebola Private Sector Mobalization Group; EPSMG; Civil War; Sovereignty; Change Management; Judgments; Development Economics; Geopolitical Units; Globalized Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Safety; War; Wealth and Poverty; Welfare; Crisis Management; Mining Industry; Liberia
Reinert, Sophus A., Sarah Nam, Sisi Pan, and Eric Werker. "ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia." Harvard Business School Case 718-029, February 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
self-conscious focus on increasing safety and effectiveness—which compelled workers to adopt a set of work practices that supported deep and ongoing learning—had the secondary consequence of disrupting and revising the hyper-masculine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
discussions. Known as the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic, and Consumer Food Policy Group (PAPSAC), the organization is dedicated to using a multidisciplinary approach to "assist the food system in evaluating the various impacts of technological change... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
we would meet at the beautiful Class of 1959 Chapel with gorgeous acoustics once a week to rehearse. This year, due to COVID-19 and safety concerns, we had to move the rehearsals outdoors to the Schwartz Pavilion, which worked out great... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
delivering their food followed health and safety protocols. CC: Order-ahead for pickup will continue to hold strong, but I’m a little more skeptical on the topic of third-party delivery providers [such as GrubHub, UberEats, Door Dash]. At... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
concerns about the tragedy at Japan's Fukushima plant, he maintains that nuclear power "is a scalable technology that has significant room for technological improvement, safety enhancement, proliferation resistance, regulatory redesign,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
set the bar for the next 15 to 25 cities that follow its lead.” For Kinch and Baird, BlocPower’s mission is no less than improving the health and safety as well as the economies of low income neighborhoods like those in which they grew... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
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