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- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment
envision the benefits that will come from its fulfillment. I believe in the private sector’s ability to enable positive change within our communities and in the veteran’s ability to contribute values that have enabled our military forces... View Details
- April 2024 (Revised December 2024)
- Case
Anthropic: Building Safe AI
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In late 2024, Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company, achieved a significant breakthrough with computer use capabilities that allowed AI to interact with computers like humans. Co-founded by former OpenAI employees and known for its generative AI... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Anthropic: Building Safe AI." Harvard Business School Case 824-129, April 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
now at a level of reasonable safety to open up. Much media attention has been paid to easing restrictions—basically increasing the available supply of offices, restaurants, colleges, stores, and factories. “Will shoppers, diners, students, and workers feel View Details
Who Guarantees Your Workplace is Safe for Return?
As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed... View Details
- June 17, 2016
- Comment
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
By: John A. Quelch
Recent events in Orlando underscore an important marketing truth: consumer safety and security are mission critical. A popular nightclub, Pulse, known as a safe place for the LGBT community, is put out of business at least temporarily by a terrorist act. Not far away... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Safety; Public Safety; Brand Attraction; Risk Management; Safe Environment Benefit; Marketing Safety; Global Brands; Advertising; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Crime and Corruption; Customers; Music Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Tourism Industry; Travel Industry; United States
Quelch, John A. "Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (June 17, 2016). (Republished by Fortune.com as "What the Orlando Tragedies Can Teach Businesses" on June 20, 2016.)
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
respectful, and offers a path forward. While not all new ideas will be implemented, the goal of creating a psychologically safe environment is to ensure that employees know their voices are important.... View Details
- January 2006 (Revised December 2006)
- Case
Wal-Mart's Business Environment
In 2004, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. proposed to build a new supercenter in Inglewood, a low-income community near Los Angeles. The proposal was a part of Wal-Mart's strategy to bring its supercenter format to California. Introduced in the late 1980s, supercenters added a... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Corporate Strategy; Labor Unions; Conflict and Resolution; Retail Industry; Los Angeles
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix. "Wal-Mart's Business Environment." Harvard Business School Case 706-453, January 2006. (Revised December 2006.)
- June 2013
- Article
Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production
By: Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam
We present a model that helps explain several past collapses of securitization markets. Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting endogenous scarcity of informed... View Details
Hanson, Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam. "Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production." Journal of Financial Economics 108, no. 3 (June 2013): 565–584. (Internet Appendix Here.)
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
MBA Experience Curriculum 2ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to... View Details
- 21 Jun 2017
- News
A New Approach to Safely Sharing Cancer Patients’ Data
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Podcast - Business & Environment
coverage, the power of storytelling, and the strategies they employ to highlight both the urgency of the climate crisis and the innovative solutions emerging worldwide. Host and Guest Climate Rising Host: Professor Mike Toffel, Faculty Chair, Business & View Details
- 01 Oct 2022
- News
Startup Chemistry and the Coworking Environment
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry
The studies indicate that not only are these "superfluous apologies" a useful social influencer, says Brooks, but also their benefits don't come at the expense of power perceptions. "Especially in negotiations, people try to get away with... View Details
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For Organizations - Business & Environment
Independent Projects allow second-year HBS students to partner with an organization on a real-time challenge of strategic importance. Students are advised by a faculty member and receive academic credit for their final deliverable(s). Organizations View Details
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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment
deliver measurable financial, environmental, and social impacts. Harvard University Office for Sustainability Our mission is to advance solutions to evolving global health and environmental challenges that benefit the common good by... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
For every winner in a zero-sum contest, there is a loser. Thus if the environment wins, the company loses, and vice versa. That view is prevalent in part because it fits with the widespread perception that environmental problems are... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
costs, and live closer to family and friends. Isolating the benefits of remote work To study the productivity effects of work-from-anywhere policies, Choudhury looked for a setting that would allow the researchers to isolate productivity... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits
Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at the same retailer are ubiquitous, and are deployed by online-first and traditional retailers alike. We focus on the relatively understudied domain of online-first retailers and the engagement of... View Details
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Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits
By: David R. Bell, Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
Omnichannel environments where customers shop online and offline at the same retailer are ubiquitous and are deployed by online-first and traditional retailers alike. We focus on the relatively understudied domain of online-first retailers and the engagement of a key... View Details
Keywords: Experience Attributes; Marketing–operations Interface; Omnichannel Retailing; Quasi-experimental Methods; Retail Operations; Showrooms; Marketing Channels; Demand and Consumers; Performance Efficiency; Retail Industry
Bell, David R., Santiago Gallino, and Antonio Moreno. "Offline Showrooms in Omni-channel Retail: Demand and Operational Benefits." Management Science 64, no. 4 (April 2018): 1629–1651. (Winner of the 2014 POMS Applied Research Challenge. Workshop on Information Systems Economics Overall Best Paper Award 2014.)