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- 01 Jun 2005
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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 entrepreneurial View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate...
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- 22 Oct 2013
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Connecting Communities to Improve Post-Disaster Recovery
- 16 Mar 2021
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Employers Must Ensure the Safety of Home Workspaces
- 01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar
investment,” McKnight says. Technologies at each step along the chain need to get faster and better, and monitoring needs to expand beyond airports to other points of entry, hospitals and labs, and even conflict zones and natural View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
that has delivered millions of loans, loan guarantees, contracts, counseling sessions, and other forms of assistance to small businesses. She leads a team of 3,000 employees who help small businesses across the country. The agency also employs 2,000 on-call staff who...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
us closer to freedom,’” Poznansky writes. APRIL 12 Corporate Responses to the War in Ukraine Tuesday April 19, 2022, 5:30pm, Virtual program How are businesses and business leaders reacting to the war in Ukraine? Senior leaders from three...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 25 Jun 2019
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After the Storm
It’s fitting that Erik Dyson’s HBS interview was conducted over a pay phone in Costa Rica, where he and his wife, Debbi, were finishing a three-year program for Habitat for Humanity. Now the CEO of the disaster relief organization All...
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- 01 Oct 2021
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Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
Takeuchi’s decision to embark on the inaugural Japan trip involved a realistic assessment of both the logistical challenges and educational opportunities of the experience. But taking students to a disaster area entailed unprecedented...
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- 05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid
inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Yurt Man
ZWERN, WITH “GLIMMER”: At Burning Man, a cool yurt has potential for disaster relief and housing for much of the world. Arthur Zwern (MBA ’85) and his solar-powered Hexayurt generated buzz at this year’s Burning Man festival, the annual...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Peak Earth?
“the rather burdensome thought is that people won’t listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me.” He explained that “people are naturally much more responsive to finite resources than they are to climate...
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- 20 Jan 2011
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Oil Spill Solution
SOAKING IT IN: Scott Smith has proven the absorbency of his firm's Opflex polymer foam at major oil spills in the Gulf and China. Last April’s Gulf of Mexico disaster was back on the front pages in early January when the National...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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One-on-One with Tom Oreck
back in our New Orleans office. Any employee could dial into the conference call. And we did what you’re supposed to do, which is to give people the facts. That communication was vital. What role did the company play in helping its employees recover? Our first View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
government is. We need that $2 trillion stimulus package, but we also need, and do not have, a viable safety net. A strong democratically elected, transparent, and responsive government is vital to free-market capitalism because it not...
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- 14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love
ended up in landfills, as organizations scrambled to meet food, shelter, and medical needs first. She could offer a percentage of her sales at VPL, but in the face of a tsunami-sized tragedy, her contributions would be reduced to metaphorical pennies. “The magnitude of...
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Maureen Harmon
- 28 May 2019
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Tech for the People
instead of waiting until disaster strikes? “San José’s CIO Shireen Santosham (MBA 2008) and Mayor Sam Liccardo immediately supported the idea,” says Tsai, which led to the October 2018 launch of Host Corps. This public/private initiative...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2009
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Faculty Books
cooperation plays in social life. Professor Bazerman and colleagues discuss their work in social judgment, decision-making, and ethics. Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies edited by Arnold M. Howitt and Herman B. Leonard...
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