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- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
New research finds that companies that took steps to meet an international safety standard further improved their working conditions after adoption, logging 20 percent fewer cases of illness and injury than non-certified firms. The... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
James Madison at the Constitutional Convention, a scene imagined here by early 20th century artist Howard Chandler Christy. (GraphicaArtis/Corbis) The blackboard fills up with proposed remedies to the country’s ills in 1787, and with more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Portrait Project
Joe Coleman
to believe in myself. Life will throw me all sorts of challenges. But I will not be paralyzed by fear, because I will lean on those I trust for support. In return, I commit myself to show others that mental illness is not a death... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
risk of mental illness involving psychosis. Other studies suggest the cannabis compounds can treat a variety of health conditions, including seizures, inflammation, and chronic pain. However, because cannabis is federally deemed an... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
reached that birthday last year, he’s thinking about his legacy. Pulmonary fibrosis, the illness that claimed his father’s life, is hereditary. While Kim is healthy, he thinks more carefully about how he spends his time. At first, he was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
keeping information private can directly harm consumers. After Los Angeles required mandatory hygiene information at restaurants, for example, hygiene rates rose and foodborne illnesses dropped. "Just by disclosing the information,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
killing jobs at a time when the United States can ill afford to lose them. Few regulatory agencies have a more direct effect on businesses than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
undergraduate years at Dartmouth College showed her “how intertwined health and illness are with poverty” and cemented an interest in health. She then served for several years as a research fellow to Agnes Bingawaho, the minister of... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
device was defined using the FDA's standard as one that "supports or sustains human life or is of substantial importance in preventing impairment of human health or presents a potential, unreasonable risk of illness or injury.") The... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
bias and moderate its ill effects. Only then can we be assured of the reliability of the financial reports issued by public companies and ratified by professional accountants. Professional accountants might seem immune to such biases... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
mature industries, nascent markets offer little certainty and plenty of ambiguity—undefined customers, unclear products or features, uncertain customer demand, and even an ill defined set of competitors. Yet, for these startups to have... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
in upstate New York with his father, a business executive, his mother, a homemaker, and a younger sister. When MacDonald was 12, he fell ill for many months with scarlet fever and mastoiditis. Confined to his home, he survived the boredom... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
to be a portfolio manager at Morgan.” Proudest moment: “July 17, 1996, when my husband and I got remarried after having been divorced since 1990.” Carl Ferenbach Ill Managing Director Berkshire Partners LLC Boston, Massachusetts After his... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
illness in June 2006 at the age of 81, the Bulletin's Class Notes were flooded with dozens of tributes from alumni who recalled his passion and commitment in the classroom and his lasting influence on their careers. "I was clueless... View Details
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- Portrait Project
Katie Rydz
in a society that teaches us that it is not ok to be mentally unwell. But discussing mental illness is the easiest way to fight not only the feeling of isolation but also the accompanying social stigma. Being open about my own struggles... View Details
- August 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Teaching Note
Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop-Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox (TN)
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and Jenny Illes
Teaching Note to (9-403-090). View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Meeting an essential health care need in India
When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that... View Details