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- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace View Details
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by Avery Forman
- 15 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5
for predominantly white spaces is still not enough to keep Black people safe – and there isn’t a job title or degree in the world that can protect Black communities from institutionalized and systemic racism. Members of the HBS African...
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- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the impacts of hundreds of Bay Area...
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Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
long. She could not help but think the American Dream, or even just the chance to live a dignified life, was out of reach no matter how early she left for work or how late she stayed. Because she had been in charge of workers’ View Details
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by Avery Forman
- 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...
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by Rachel Layne
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
Media Lab) with Hidalgo and Raskar to develop a computer vision method for quantifying perceived safety of street scenes. The next breakthrough came when Google released a “time machine” feature, allowing...
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- February 1999 (Revised November 2000)
- Case
FlightSafety International (A)
Describes the flight training industry and its premier competitor, FlightSafety International. Traces the rise and subsequent slowdown in the growth of this firm.
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Keywords:
Safety;
Strategy;
Value Creation;
Air Transportation;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Air Transportation Industry
Rukstad, Michael G. "FlightSafety International (A)." Harvard Business School Case 799-113, February 1999. (Revised November 2000.)
- 2014
- Article
Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Zhike Lei
Psychological safety describes people's perceptions of the consequences of taking interpersonal risks in a particular context such as a workplace. First explored by pioneering organizational scholars in the 1960s, psychological safety experienced a renaissance starting...
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Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei. "Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct." Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 1 (2014): 23–43.
- November 1991 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Accounting for Frequent Fliers
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Airline frequent flier programs offer members the opportunity to earn free flights by accumulating mileage. Accounting and reporting the obligations of airlines and the cost of frequent flier programs raises difficult measurement issues. In 1991, the U.S. Securities...
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Bruns, William J., Jr. "Accounting for Frequent Fliers." Harvard Business School Case 192-040, November 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
- 2013
- Other Unpublished Work
Comments on Commitments in AT.39740 — Google
By: Benjamin Edelman and Zhenyu Lai
We evaluate Google's proposed Commitments in light of our research on the effects of Google Flight Search on traffic to competing online travel agencies.
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Competition;
Regulation;
Google;
Bias;
Law;
Internet;
Search Technology;
Technology Networks;
European Union
Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai. "Comments on Commitments in AT.39740 — Google." May 2013. (Comments to European Commission - DG Comp.)
- June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes the development of the Boeing 737 Max airplane model and the events leading up to two tragic plane crashes, in which a total of 346 people died: the crash of Lion Air flight 610 on October 29, 2018, in Indonesia, and the crash of Ethiopian Airlines...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Communication Strategy;
Forms of Communication;
Announcements;
Decision Making;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Judgments;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Governance;
Corporate Accountability;
Governance Controls;
Human Resources;
Resignation and Termination;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Crisis Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Skills;
Management Style;
Management Systems;
Risk Management;
Time Management;
Markets;
Demand and Consumers;
Digital Platforms;
Supply and Industry;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Industry Structures;
Operations;
Product Development;
Organizations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome or Result;
Failure;
Success;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Relationships;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Safety;
Strategy;
Transportation;
Air Transportation;
Aerospace Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
Africa;
Ethiopia;
Asia;
Indonesia;
North and Central America;
United States;
Seattle;
Chicago
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "What Went Wrong with Boeing's 737 Max?" Harvard Business School Case 320-104, June 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
This scenario may sound familiar, unfortunately: Your flight begins with poking and prodding by the TSA agent, all to wait for the inevitable delayed departure. Boarding extends the indignities: more waiting...
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- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers...
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All Industries
- March 2021 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Philips: Redefining Telehealth
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Alec Petersen, Natalie Kindred and Sara M. McKinley
As one of the world’s largest healthcare companies, Philips sought to reach beyond the walls of the hospital and expand its hospital-to-home program to gain future competitive advantage through technology solutions combining predictive analytics with care delivery. By...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Philips;
Visicu;
Telemedicine;
eICU;
Accountable Care Organization;
ACO;
Bundled Payment;
Hospital To Home;
Patient Monitoring Devices;
Home Health Care;
Health Care and Treatment;
Communication Technology;
Quality;
Safety;
Performance Productivity;
Performance Capacity;
Performance Efficiency;
Consumer Behavior;
Emerging Markets;
Health Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Netherlands
Herzlinger, Regina E., Alec Petersen, Natalie Kindred, and Sara M. McKinley. "Philips: Redefining Telehealth." Harvard Business School Case 321-135, March 2021. (Revised January 2022.) (As companion reading for this case, see: Regina E. Herzlinger and Charles Huang. "Note on Bundled Payment in Health Care," HBS Background Note 312-032.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Committed to a goal of 'zero harm' in the mining industry
we have a mining industry in which everyone goes home safely to their family at the end of the working day,” says Carroll, the first woman and non–South African to lead the nearly 100-year-old company. She...
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- April 2004 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Columbia's Final Mission
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto, Laura Feldman and Erika Ferlins
Describes the 16-day final mission of the space shuttle Columbia in January 2003 in which seven astronauts died. Includes background on NASA and the creation of the human space flight program, including the 1970 Apollo 13 crisis and 1986 Challenger disaster. Examines...
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Leadership;
Crisis Management;
Management Skills;
Organizational Culture;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior;
Aerospace Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto, Laura Feldman, and Erika Ferlins. "Columbia's Final Mission." Harvard Business School Case 304-090, April 2004. (Revised May 2010.)
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Food and Drug Administration faced the task of convincing a skeptical public of the safety of new vaccines when the agency began authorizing them for emergency use less than a year after the pandemic...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting and Digesting
Finals just ended, I said some goodbyes, and I am all packed and ready. My first year at HBS has already come to an end, way too quickly, and I just boarded my flight to...
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- October 2019 (Revised June 2020)
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (G): New Planes and Upgrades (2011)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the first commercial flight of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner in 2011, three years after originally planned, as well as the first commercial flight of Airbus' superjumbo, the A380, in 2007. It also describes the companies' current endeavors in 2011,...
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Keywords:
Airbus;
Boeing;
Product Development;
Air Transportation;
Projects;
Competition;
Air Transportation Industry;
Manufacturing Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Airbus vs. Boeing (G): New Planes and Upgrades (2011)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-382, October 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
- September 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Supplement
The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (D)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Saloni Chaturvedi
This supplements the (A) case by summarizing key developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for Bangladesh...
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Keywords:
Apparel;
Bangladesh;
Corporate Responsibility;
Human Rights;
Supply Chains;
Labor;
Working Conditions;
Supply Chain;
Safety;
Rights;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Bangladesh
Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-028, September 2017. (Revised August 2018.)