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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
less expensive approach than traditional nuclear power, while cutting waste by 95 percent. During a family trip around the world in 2011, Wilcox saw how those who lacked access to electricity had poor quality of life in regions of India and Africa. While visiting...
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- 13 Mar 2011
- News
Sympathy and Concern for HBS Alumni in Japan
Dear HBS Alumni, The tragic situation resulting from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan has shocked and saddened the world. On behalf of the Harvard Business School, we extend our deepest sympathy and concern for our alumni and their...
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- 20 Jan 2016
- News
Water for the World
And it’s important that we take the responsibility that we have, because we have a lot of water; and when you have a lot of water, you have to be able to give as you can also sell. For example, when the earthquake hit Haiti, we were the...
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- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Competitiveness Global Practice. In Haiti, for example, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic earthquake in 2010, Duch says that after “a crash course in strategy,” having used the HBS case method,...
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Global Understanding - HBS Fund Investors Society 2021 Report
Global Understanding Global Understanding Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an...
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
Asia Pacific Asia Pacific Marking Ten-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region Pictured: Professor of Management Practice Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual gathering in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the Immersive Field...
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- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She...
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Maureen Harmon
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Serving as a cultural ambassador
memorable mix of business education and cultural recreation, a J-Term 2014 trip offered even deeper perspectives. Through the Japan IXP (Immersion Experience Program), she explored entrepreneurship within a unique context: recovery from the 2011 Tohoku View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)
soul of which was a song inspired by the story of a girl who perished in the earthquake in Haiti. Seeing how the music affected my whole family, it revealed to me how important it is for music to be a language everyone speaks. So when I...
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- 29 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?
trading block in the world. Financial markets had been complacent and were caught off guard by an early morning earthquake that affected most traded asset classes around the globe. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation,...
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by Dante Roscini
- Profile
Juan Eyzaguirre
through the earthquake crisis meant mobilizing an entire nation and motivating everyone to work together. "It was really tough," Juan says. "But when you feel that you are part of a national effort, people give the best of...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
pools. Barely a month later, a massive earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and caused a 10-foot tsunami to smash into the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, cutting off grid power and drowning the backup generators. The plants’...
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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 716-474 The Great East Japan Earthquake (F): Google Japan's Response and Recovery Efforts No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716474-PDF-ENG Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
through Vermont, because they have diversified their own risk across the possibility of hurricanes in Vermont, floods in England, and earthquakes in California. "One relies on the insurance sector to promote risk sharing," says...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
Permanent 6/9/01 (Cover story) Bob Kerrey and the ghosts of Vietnam (cowritten with Johanna McGeary) A One-Man Earthquake 5/7/01 (Cover story) Jim Jeffords's GOP defection How Can We Miss You If You Never Go Away? 2/26/01 (Cover story)...
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Orkun Kilic
Sometimes leadership is cultivated over a period of years; other times it arises in the moment. When an earthquake struck Istanbul in 1999, Orkun Kilic immediately seized the initiative and led a team that saved three people from the...
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- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
seven Cs. Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises As demonstrated after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese businesses have a unique capability for long-term survival. Hirotaka Takeuchi explains their strategy of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
a world-travel adventure for a year. They were at a Disney resort in Tokyo—riding through a simulated volcano attraction of all things—when the catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck. Wilcox says the terror of the moment, the...
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- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
Historically, though, such research has neglected to consider how firms are affected by major local events, whether they be planned (the Super Bowl or FIFA World Cup, for instance) or unplanned (an earthquake or hurricane). Marquis and...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
disasters, like hurricanes, are predictable. Others, such as earthquakes, are not. “I will get a text from the guy who runs international response for us, 9 p.m. on a Friday night, saying there was just an earthquake and that we should do...
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Paul Flannery