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  • 18 Nov 2014
  • News

Providing relief when disaster strikes

Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. (Published November 2014) View Details

    Do Voters Demand Responsive Governments?

    Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather events beyond its control. However, fewer... View Details

    • 2012
    • Article

    Do Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

    By: Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy and Eric Werker
    Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather events beyond its control. However, fewer voters... View Details
    Keywords: Political Elections; System Shocks; Natural Disasters; Policy; Motivation and Incentives; Public Opinion; India
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    • August 23, 2010
    • Article

    Disaster Politics: International Politics and Relief Efforts

    By: Eric D. Werker
    Keywords: Government and Politics
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Peculiar Politics of American Disaster Policy: How Television Has Changed Federal Relief

    By: David Moss
    Particularly since the 1960s, the federal government has played a significant role in financing disaster losses in the United States. The federal government may thus be thought of as providing an implicit form of public disaster insurance. However, unlike many... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Policy; Government and Politics; Media; Natural Disasters; United States
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    • 30 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief

    Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, Andrew Healy & Eric D. Werker
    • May–June 2021
    • Article

    Case Study: What Role Should a Company Play in a National Crisis?

    By: Christopher J. Malloy
    The article presents a fictionalized case study asking what type of role should a company play in a national crisis, specifically a tsunami hitting Indonesia, similar to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Topics include how disasters can impact family-owned companies, the... View Details
    Keywords: Emergency Preparedness; Disaster Relief; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management
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    • 01 Jun 2010
    • News

    Students Reach Out to Haiti

    Several student relief efforts sprang up in the wake of February’s earthquake in Haiti. Partners In Health, which has been working in the country for over twenty years, was the beneficiary of choice for many of the first-year section... View Details
    Keywords: disaster relief; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
    • 16 Jan 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

    Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker
    • June 2015 (Revised February 2016)
    • Case

    Team Rubicon: Bridging the Gap from Startup to National Organization

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Dan Nidess
    Team Rubicon, a military veteran volunteer disaster relief organization, has experienced significant success in attracting attention and support in its first four years of operation. The challenges of managing the volunteer base, the cost of responding to disasters,... View Details
    Keywords: Growth Strategy And Execution; Disaster Relief; NGO; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    Japan Crisis

    The HBS Alumni Web site facilitated information-sharing regarding alumni and conditions in Japan following that country’s March earthquake and tsunami. In addition, the MBA Classes of 2005–2012 launched an online relief effort to accept... View Details
    Keywords: disaster relief
    • September 2014 (Revised March 2017)
    • Case

    Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief: What Can We Learn from Commercial Supply Chains?

    By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
    Organizing speedy and efficient supply operations for unpredictable major natural disasters was a continuing challenge for the U.S. military, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti was both unique in its operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chains; Humanitarian Assistance; Disaster Relief; Distribution; Logistics; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Operations; Distribution Industry; United States; Haiti
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    • 31 May 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

    causing many companies to rethink their supply chain strategies, which suddenly seem extremely fragile. When a natural disaster hits, relief organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics
    • November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    The Tzu Chi Foundation's China Relief Mission

    By: Herman B. Leonard and YiKwan Chu
    Tzu Chi is one of the largest charities in Taiwan, and one of the swiftest and most effective relief organizations internationally. Rooted in the value of compassion, the organization has many unusual operating features -- including having no long term plan. This case... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Religion; Natural Disasters; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; China; Taiwan
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    • 01 Jun 2005
    • News

    Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster

    firsthand experience: He spent seven weeks during January and February helping the field leadership of five United Nations relief agencies develop overall strategy and serving as deputy director for Mercy Corps, an innovator in... View Details
    Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management
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    After All Is Lost: Meeting the Material Needs of Adolescent Disaster Survivors

    By: Jill G. Klein and Laura Huang
    This research with teenage tsunami survivors finds that adolescents received little support from relief organizations in their desire to replace lost possessions. The authors suggest ways that marketers can help relief organizations identify the material needs of... View Details
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    Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy

    By: Forest Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel
    The U.S. Navy operates on the front lines of climate change. It manages tens of billions of dollars in assets on every continent and on every ocean, which take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Environment; Military; Disaster Relief; Refugees; Environmental Impact; Environmental Strategy; Sustainability; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Energy Generation; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Supply Chain; Operations; Logistics; Infrastructure; Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Service Industry
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    • Profile

    Erik Dyson

    Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. View Details
    Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing; Nonprofit / Government
    • 02 Sep 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Role of Government When All Else Fails

    consumers to producers, has dramatically influenced the calculus of production in a large number of industries. Our federal disaster relief policy, meanwhile, has likely affected housing patterns all over... View Details
    Keywords: by Laura Linard
    • 31 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 31

      PublicationsDo Voters Demand Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian Disaster Relief Authors:Shawn Cole, Andrew Healy, and Eric Werker Publication:Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne