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Why Organizations Forget What They Learn from Failures

Harvard Business Review

After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety. We built on qualitative data from NASA’s Challenger and Columbia accidents to develop a model about the role of serious errors in organizations’ cycling between learning and forgetting.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. Fostering innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.