Flight To Safety - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

06 Oct 2016
News

“You Could Be Dead Any Second”

to exchange the Westerners for prisoners, Quin and the others were used as a human wall while their captors exchanged fire with the Yemeni army. “It seemed impossible that we could survive,” Quin told the Bulletin in 2002. But the moment... View Details

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Dec 2019
News

Making Eco Easy

well as the $5,000 Crowd Favorite Prize. “It’s all a blur,” says Pak of the whirlwind experience. Just the day before—Earth Day—she, Paiji Yoo, and Mascari had launched the New York-based company. Then, that night, Pak boarded a flight... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable... View Details

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

efficiency, because some schools are strategic players that rank students in order of preference, while others order students based on large priority classes. Therefore it is desirable for a mechanism to produce stable matchings (to avoid... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

a flight to abstractions, resulting in few business-specific decision criteria for Enron executives. Along the way Enron lost track of its ideals. This loss of ideals reveals the most important lessons of... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

12 May 2015
News

A Flash of Insight

When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

by Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) (Wiley) Wisdom shows how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are strong but the “general wisdom” about the security has turned negative. Most promising are the stocks Wall Street has marked... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

01 Dec 2012
News

An Advocate for Women's Equality

years after her appointment, Franklin left the White House to become vice chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; later she would serve as US Secretary of Commerce and form a business consultancy.... View Details

Keywords: Richard Nixon; Chuck Colson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

if today's 40 percent personal savings rate is to be reduced, thereby unleashing cash to fuel new growth in consumer spending. Creating this domestic safety net will be crucial... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

Portrait Project

Monica Lee

unpredictable... filled with mistakes, challenges, and character defining moments. No more safe, steady existence. No more safety net. I want to experience it all...the incredible highs as well as the... View Details

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Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog

or bankers will themselves see their roles change inside professional services firms and many will also sell services like workforce transformation advisory to clients. Future entrepreneurs or tech leaders may seek View Details

Fast Answer

Market trends, opportunities in advanced technology fields

pharmaceuticals, plastics, safety and security, and semiconductor manufacturing. Frost & Sullivan - Reports and market trends and opportunities encompassing various technology-, energy-, and manufacturing-related... View Details

30 Sep 2010
News

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Quick .who was the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize? Until a few days ago, I had no clue and I’m not proud of that. That’s one reason I went to see and hear the former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, as he took part in two... View Details

Keywords: Nobel Peace Prize; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

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Commercial Videotaping & Photography | About

rpassias@hbs.edu , Director of Digital Media & Marketing Projects. Harvard Business School reserves the right to refuse to grant permission for any reason, including the potential disruption of academic,... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

said, is that the start-up's mission was in alignment with the company's core business. For would-be intrapreneurs, the advantages to a corporate start-up versus a jump to a brand new company can include... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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2.3.2 Hazing | MBA

physical activity which is likely to affect adversely the physical health or safety or any such student or other person, or which subjects such student or other person to... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

approach is to hold the stock and try to change behavior. One of our students actually convened people from CalSTRS and 10 other investors on campus last May, and together they came up with a set of... View Details