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Tigers vs. Rays Preview: Never mind the draft, let's play ball!
It's a tale of two pitchers with Blake Snell on the mound opposing Ryan Carpenter.
By Adam Dubbin@AdamDubbin Jun 4, 2019, 4:15pm EDT
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Amidst all of the excitement surrounding the Major League Baseball amateur draft, the Detroit Tigers are still playing games, for better or for worse. After a night off following a weekend series loss to the Atlanta Braves, the Tigers return to the friendly confines of Comerica Park to take on the upstart Tampa Bay Rays.
While the Rays started the season off strong, they still have not quite been able to keep up with the New York Yankees over in the American League East division. They arrive in Detroit on the heels of a three-game skid, as they dropped their previous home series with the American League Central leading Minnesota Twins, losing the last three of the four game set. The Tampa Bay boys will be looking to get things back on track against the hapless Tigers.
Tampa Bay Rays (35-22) at Detroit Tigers (22-34)
Time/Place: 7:10 p.m., Comerica Park, Detroit
SB Nation site: DRays Bay
Media: Fox Sports Detroit, fuboTV, MLB.TV, Tigers Radio Network
Pitching Matchup: LHP Ryan Carpenter (3-4, 2.84 ERA) vs. LHP Blake Snell (3-4, 3.06 ERA)
Game 58 Pitching Matchup
Carpenter 19 17.1 6.8 6.93 -0.2
Snell 61.2 34.9 7.1 3.01 1.7
Tuesday night's probable pitchers are essentially a night-and-day matchup between last year's American League Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell and a guy who probably does not belong in the majors. However, to his credit, the latter put up five decent innings against the Baltimore Orioles on May 29, allowing two earned runs off of four hits — including a home run — and two walks, while striking out three after 79 pitches. While Carpenter did not figure in the final decision, his efforts did result in a win for the Tigers.
Blake Snell, on the other hand, despite not quite performing at his levels from 2018 is still a quality pitcher who has continued to put up appreciable numbers thus far this season. In his last start against the Toronto Blue Jays, he pitched a six-inning no-decision win going six frames allowing only two earned runs on six hits, two walks, and a dinger, while striking out five over 87 pitches. Interestingly, Snell only surpassed the 100 pitch mark once in May — when he pitched 6.2 innings in a loss at the Cleveland Indians on May 24 — so the Tigers should look to work him at the plate and try to take advantage of his inefficiencies.
The Tigers manage to touch up Snell a bit in the middle innings and knock him out of the game, but Carpenter is unable to keep the Rays off the board. Combined with a strong bullpen effort by Tampa Bay, the Tigers take the L this evening.

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China vows new incentives to cut pollution, CO2, but says 'stability' paramount
Can China's young generation reverse population decline?
In Beijing's backyard, US demonstrates its military might
China's environmental commitments have come under scrutiny this year as it tries to shore up growth and reduce the impact of stringent Covid-19 control policies on its economy and supply chains. President Xi Jinping said in a speech in January that the country's ambitious low-carbon goals should not come at the expense of energy and food security or the "normal life" of ordinary people
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China will introduce new incentives to cut pollution and carbon emissions this year, but flexibility and stability remain the country's top priorities as economic pressures mount, the government said in documents published on Saturday.
China's environmental commitments have come under scrutiny this year as it tries to shore up growth and reduce the impact of stringent Covid-19 control policies on its economy and supply chains. President Xi Jinping said in a speech in January that the country's ambitious low-carbon goals should not come at the expense of energy and food security or the "normal life" of ordinary people.
China's government work report, delivered to the annual session of parliament by Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday, said that stability, the expansion of domestic demand and food and energy security would remain major priorities in 2022. Li said China would "work harder" to make coal use cleaner and more efficient, update coal-fired power plants to make them more efficient, and enhance the capacity of grids to absorb power produced by renewable sources.
But efforts to reduce coal consumption and bring emissions to a peak would be done in a "well-ordered way", he added. China, the world's biggest source of climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions, has pledged to become carbon neutral by around 2060, with emissions peaking before 2030.
A separate report published by the state planning agency on Saturday said China would "balance development and emission reductions as well as current needs and long-term benefits". The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said "an appropriate level of flexibility" on energy consumption in order to keep the economy steady, and it warned against the "overly simplistic and mechanical" implementation of policies by local governments.
BACKSLIDING Environmental groups have expressed concern that fears about the economy would lead China to backslide on its environmental commitments.
Energy and coal use in the world's biggest carbon emitting country grew at their fastest rate in a decade last year, and it has also started building large amounts of new coal-fired power capacity. There was no annual target for energy intensity - the amount consumed per unit of GDP - in the Saturday government work report, and it also said China would not include major national projects in state energy consumption control targets.
However, the work report promised to take stronger action to treat pollution in major rivers, lakes and bays, and boost recycling. At the same time, the NDRC said large-scale afforestation would continue this year. In another annual report published on Saturday, the finance ministry also said it would raise the budget for air pollution by 2.5 billion yuan to 30 billion yuan ($4.75 billion) this year, in order to support the transition to clean winter heating. The water pollution budget was also raised.
The finance ministry also said it would cut corporate income tax rates for third-party enterprises involved in cutting pollution, and work to establish a national fund to support the low-carbon transition.
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In the early 1840s the American West, though claimed by the United States, was considered by many white Americans to be untamed, wild, and possibly rife with unknown wealth. This was a West that existed largely in the American imagination. In fact, the area west of the Missouri was home to complex Native societies, was divided into political structures, and was intimately known, if not formally mapped. These two competing Wests - that imagined by many Americans and that inhabited by Souix, Pawnee, Snake and Nez Pierce tribes - were mapped both geographically and textually by John C. Frémont between 1842 and 1843. Frémont set out from St. Louis in the summer of 1842, and began to chronicle his journey west, in the wake of "emigrants" who were moving to the Oregon Territory - a route known as the "Oregon Trail." Frémont's first expedition covered the land between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains during the summer and fall of 1842. In the summer of 1843 he set out to write an account of the second half of the Oregon Trail, from the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River in Oregon. The maps contained here are drawn from the Library of Congress's collection "Topographical map of the road from Missouri to Oregon, commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and ending at the mouth of the Walla-Wallah in the Columbia." They were created using Frémont's journal, and cover his first and second expeditions. I have annotated the maps with accounts of the resting places, flora, fauna, and people Frémont's and his party encountered on their journey west.
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Covid-19COVID-19Debating IdeasDecolonisationHumanitarianismPeace ProcessesPublic Health
Local Ownership of Peace Processes in African Countries in Times of Covid-19
By Tarila Marclint Ebiede
Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
Covid-19 is likely to disrupt ongoing peace processes, exacerbate existing conflicts and generate new conflicts, but it may also offer opportunities for ceasefires and peace agreements. The measures taken to contain the spread of the virus are, unfortunately, also affecting the mobility of peacemakers, peacekeepers and peacebuilders, who would normally have been able to facilitate these processes. To sustain peace, we need to find new ways of working, including mainly through national and local capacities for peace.
The outbreak of Covid-19 has had a fundamental impact on social, economic and political lives of all countries around the world. Arguably, one of the most serious concerns is how Covid-19 is likely to affect violent conflicts and ongoing peace processes. The nature and level of any impact Covid-19 will have on violent conflicts remain unknown. Popular response to the virus is currently complicating ongoing peace processes while ignoring the opportunities for collective action that builds on the resilience of communities that sustain peace processes.
How will Covid-19 affect ongoing peace processes?
The Secretary General of the UN has called for a unilateral ceasefire in ongoing conflicts. It will be challenging to achieve a unilateral ceasefire across all areas affected by violent conflicts, especially in Africa. However, this should not discourage actors from pursuing peace during this period. The Secretary General's call for ceasefire has received support from peace advocates as well as some parties to conflicts around the world, even in Africa, including non-state armed groups. The link between pandemics and conflicts is not linear. In the past, the outbreak of epidemics such as Ebola created intersects with existing conflicts, making it difficult for effective public health interventions to stop the spread of the disease. However, research shows that disasters such as Covid-19 also provide opportunities for peace in countries affected by conflict.
International support is hindered by measures to contain the virus
Current peace processes supported by the international community in countries affected by conflict and Covid-19 are designed in ways that involve multiple stakeholders within and outside countries affected by violent conflicts. In most cases, these peacebuilding initiatives, even when described as locally-led initiatives, are often guided by internationally recruited professionals of INGOs, donor agencies and consulting companies. State responses to the outbreak of Covid-19 in conflict-affected countries in Africa have impacted on the movement of international professionals working in the field of peacebuilding. Currently, these professionals are unable to travel to areas impacted by conflict. Similarly, international organizations have placed restrictions on their staff travelling to these areas. The default response for most professionals is to return to their home countries.
National and local capacities for peace are constrained
While peacebuilding processes may be suspended, conflicts have not been suspended. In South Sudan, for example, communal conflicts persist even when national peace processes have gained momentum lately. The terrorist activities of the Boko Haram group in the Lake Chad region persist. The group has been on the offensive in the middle of the pandemic, killing Nigerian and Chadian soldiers. Rebels in DR Congo continue to fight in the bush. Separatist groups in Cameroon remain in active combat. The risk of conflict escalation is even higher in rural areas where non-state armed groups hold sway.
At the national level, restrictions that limit the movement of people and social distancing measures have kept people from coming together. These measures, while part of partial and full lockdowns implemented by national governments across the continent and helpful in stemming the spread of the virus in other contexts, however tend to suppress political processes such as peacebuilding that requires close interaction among actors especially when implemented in the African context.
Violent extremist, insurgents and organized criminals may take advantage
In peacebuilding, cessation of hostilities does not necessarily translate into peace. Peacebuilding requires sustained efforts towards reconciliation, reintegration, addressing the impact of conflict and the causes of conflicts. This process often requires physical meetings, roundtables, and events that are designed to bring conflict actors together towards sustainable peace. Retreating peacebuilding activities during this period portends a great danger for societies affected by violent conflicts. One likely consequence is that non-state armed groups will seize the opportunity to expand their frontiers, thus undermining ongoing peace processes. It also opens up the possibility of increased mortality in the context of violent conflicts. Hence, it is important that stakeholders adopt mechanisms that will sustain peacebuilding efforts in communities affected by violent conflicts during this pandemic.
Empower local actors to sustain peacebuilding processes
Current evidence suggests that there will be limited international travel for the foreseeable future. This will fundamentally change the relationship between international and national/local actors, as the ability of internationals to be directly involved in shaping and directing peace processes will be greatly constrained. This scenario presents an opportunity for moving beyond rhetoric and design to implement peacebuilding processes that are truly owned by those directly impacted by conflict in communities. This is an important dimension that is currently limited in the current global politics and policy processes of peacebuilding.
In the face of national lockdowns, one way this can be achieved is through existing local authorities, community peace actors and peace committees that are often common across Africa. Local actors that are embedded in communities impacted by conflict can continue to work on sustaining peace processes even when professional peacebuilders are unable to gain access to these communities in the face of lockdowns and restricted movements. In communities where there have been no reported cases of the virus, peacebuilding meetings and dialogues can still be held among actors while maintaining significant physical distance and taking precautions such as hand washing, use of sanitizers and face masks. For any peace process, what is important is that people keep communication open and sustained even during the pandemic.
International peacebuilders can continue providing remote support to local peacebuilders that are embedded in communities. One way to do this is to maintain financial support and the flow of funds to facilitate activities in local communities. Second, international peacebuilders can provide remote mentoring and capacity building. There is technological capacity for peacebuilders to receive coaching in the most remote places affected by conflict in Africa. To support this process, relevant training materials, research outputs and existing knowledge should be made available for African peacebuilders. International peacebuilders should also remain available to brainstorm with local peacebuilders when the latter encounter challenges in their communities.
Local peacebuilders can also support efforts to contain Covid-19
Local actors can also be enlisted to stop the spread of the pandemic. Instead of suspending their work, local peacebuilders should be recruited by national and international actors to engage local conflict actors on issues relating to the pandemic. Local peacebuilders can use their existing network and knowledge of community relations to coordinate preventive response to the pandemic in their communities. These resources can also be used to reinforce the expertise of public health workers in local communities.
Local peacebuilding actors can be purveyors of public health awareness messages that can save communities with limited health infrastructure. This is very important as conspiracy theories about the virus that are likely to endanger lives spread to these areas. Local actors can be channels of communicating trusted information about Covid-19 to conflict actors at the local level. Local actors involved in peacebuilding already have knowledge of translating complex messages into local languages. This skill will be very relevant in the fight against the pandemic in communities. With the right information, local conflict actors can be persuaded to accept the call by the UN Secretary General for a ceasefire. It is important to work with local actors to communicate the right messages that will stop the spread of the pandemic to rural areas affected by violent conflicts.
The Covid-19 pandemic may lead to two key outcomes in areas affected by violent conflicts. On the one hand, it may worsen conflict situations and undermine ongoing peacebuilding efforts. On the other hand, the pandemic could create the conditions necessary for advancing peacebuilding processes in local communities. Peacebuilding actors need to engage with local actors to achieve the desired outcome. Empowering local actors will not only sustain peace processes, but also contribute to the fight against the spread of Covid-19.
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Tarila Marclint Ebiede
Tarila Marclint Ebiede is a Political Scientist and Researcher working on sustainable peacebuilding in Africa. He has conducted extensive research on political violence and the reintegration of ex-combatants in Nigeria. His research has been published in specialised journals such as African Security, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, and Stability: International Journal of Security and Development. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), Abuja, Nigeria and Co-founder of Conflict Research Network West Africa (CORN - West Africa). He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium.
Dr. Jon Levy 22 May, 2020 at 17:34
In Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), the Southern Cameroons Defense Force (SOCADEF) declared a COVID19 ceasefire. The Republic of Cameroon ignored it and the ICRC refuses to declare a NIAC (non iternational armed conflict) after 3 years of fighting, so Amba fighters can be summarily arrested and excuted. The ICRC is working at cross purposes with the UN and seems to be an extension of Francafrique.
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Among the highlights included in new research papers, case studies, articles, and books released this week by Harvard Business School faculty:
Why gender inequality persists
Researchers look at why women's career advancements remain stalled despite recognition that the conflict between family and long-hour jobs is at the heart of the problem. Research suggests, the authors say, that "mitigating the conflict through flexible work policies has done little to improve women's advancement prospects and often hurts them." Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture was written by Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely, and Erin M. Reid.
Is hiring best left to hiring managers?
Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino examine whether a rertail company's central office or store managers make the best hires in the working paper Employees, the Head Office or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain. "We find that, on average, centralized hiring does not increase the quality of employee-company matches … except when store managers are inexperienced and/or overly busy," the researchers conclude. The research also finds that centralized hiring is associated with higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters.
Understanding brand portfolio strategy
Jill Avery writes a background note for educators on the topic of developing strategy around product portfolios. "Done well, (brand portfolio strategy) informs the allocation of investment across brands, identifies underperforming brands as candidates for pruning or revitalization, and pinpoints gaps in the portfolio that indicate growth opportunities for new brands." The note is titled Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture.
A complete list of new research and publications from Harvard Business School faculty follows.
—Sean Silverthorne
Global Talent Flows
By: Kerr, William R., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and Çağlar Özden
Abstract—The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in importance. We next consider the determinants of global talent flows at the individual and firm levels and sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries to successfully navigate this tangled web of global talent will be critical to their success.
Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813
Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default
By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk
Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default, modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens' preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt rule that limits the maximum amount of debt is analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule yields welfare gains virtually equal to the optimal rule.
Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50545
Who Should Select New Employees, the Head Office or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain
By: Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino
Abstract—We examine whether centralized hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect the unit managers' knowledge about which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized hiring to centralized hiring at our research site. We find that, on average, centralized hiring does not increase the quality of employee-company matches (measured through employee departures of newly hired employees, store-level employee turnover, and store performance) except when store managers are inexperienced and/or overly busy. Yet, we find that centralized hiring is associated with higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (e.g., in stores that are far from headquarters or that serve repeat customers).
The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking
By: Falato, Antonio, and David Scharfstein
Abstract—We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from private to public ownership through a public listing or an acquisition. The increase in risk is greater than for a control group of banks that intended but failed to transition from private to public ownership, a result that is robust to using a plausibly exogenous instrument for failed transitions. The increase in risk is also greater than for a control group of banks that were acquired but did not change their listing status. We establish that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices helps to explain these findings by showing that the increase in risk is larger for newly public banks that are more focused on short-term stock prices and performance.
Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China
By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu
Abstract—Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms' incentives to innovate and that private sector firms are more sensitive to IPR protection than SOEs.
Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs
By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam
Abstract—In this paper, we develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis in the presence of risk. In our model, a benevolent government chooses the scale of a risky project in the presence of two key frictions. First, there are market failures, which cause the government to perceive project payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that government financing is costly because of tax distortions. This creates a "fiscal risk management" motive: incremental spending that occurs when total government spending is already high is particularly unattractive. A first key insight is that the government's need to manage fiscal risk frequently limits its capacity for managing social risk. A second key insight is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative attractiveness of two technologies for promoting financial stability—bailouts and regulation—varies with the government's fiscal burden and characteristics of the economy.
Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture
By: Padavic, Irene, Robin J. Ely, and Erin M. Reid
Abstract—It is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs' long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this "work-family narrative" is partial at best: men, too, experience work-family conflict and nevertheless advance; moreover, mitigating the conflict through flexible work policies has done little to improve women's advancement prospects and often hurts them. Drawing on an in-depth case study of a professional service firm, we offer two connected explanations for the work-family narrative's persistence. We first present data suggesting that this belief has become a "hegemonic narrative"—a pervasive, status-quo-preserving story that is uncontested, even in the face of countervailing evidence. We then take a systems psychodynamic perspective to show how organizations use this narrative and attendant policies and practices as an unconscious "social defense" to help employees fend off anxieties raised by a 24/7 work culture. Due to the social defense, two beliefs remain unchallenged—the necessity of long work hours and the inescapability of women's stalled advancement. The result is that women's thin representation at senior levels remains in place.
Are 'Better' Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation
By: Scott, Erin L., Pian Shu, and Roman M. Lubynsky
Abstract—This paper studies the uncertainty associated with screening early stage ventures. Using data on 652 ventures in high-growth industries, we examine whether experienced entrepreneurs, executives, and investors can predict the outcomes of early stage ventures by reading succinct summaries of their business ideas without meeting the founding teams. We find that the predictability of venture outcomes varies with the intensity of research and development (R&D) in the sector. In R&D-intensive sectors, such as life sciences, the ideas that elicit more positive evaluations are significantly more likely to reach commercialization and/or to raise substantial funding; this pattern does not hold for ventures in non-R&D–intensive sectors such as enterprise software. Our results suggest that, despite the many uncertainties associated with innovating at the technological frontier, early stage ventures in R&D-intensive sectors can be screened effectively using information on their non-human capital assets. In contrast, such information is not sufficient to screen ventures in non-R&D-intensive sectors.
Harvard Business School Case 517-021
Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture
While companies choose to brand their products and services in many different ways, there are some central tenets that help define an optimal brand portfolio and associated brand architecture. Brand portfolio strategy involves the design, deployment, and management of multiple brands as a coordinated portfolio of meaning-based assets that address the needs of diverse customers in a marketplace and maximize return while minimizing risk. It specifies the optimal portfolio of brands a company should maintain for comprehensive market coverage with minimal overlap, determines the role and scope of each brand in the portfolio, and designs a strategic, logical, and efficient brand architecture that knits the brands together into an interdependent system. Done well, it informs the allocation of investment across brands, identifies underperforming brands as candidates for pruning or revitalization, and pinpoints gaps in the portfolio that indicate growth opportunities for new brands.
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Ekal Vidyalaya: Education for Rural India
By examining Ekal Vidyalaya (Ekal), a nonprofit network of schools in India, this case focuses on the classic challenge faced by organizations that grow through replication (e.g., McDonald's, Starbucks, Walmart, Whole Foods): How can they continue to drive growth when their well of attractive locations begins to dry up? In 1986, a group of social entrepreneurs reimagined education in India, developing a low-cost, "one-teacher school" model to provide educational access in regions that had proven cost prohibitive for government schools. They founded Ekal to fulfill the vision of a network of 100,000 one-teacher schools throughout rural India. More than a quarter century later, in 2014, the Ekal network included over 54,000 schools. However, with the emergence of India as an economic power, government schools had received the mandate and funds to extend their reach to many of the regions that Ekal serves. Was it time for Ekal to reevaluate their vision; was the target of 100,000 schools, which had driven their growth thus far, still the best path forward? Or was it time to declare their mission of universal access to education a success in the regions that government schools now served and begin to scale back from those areas?
Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices
Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The case provides background for the company, as well as a description of how its culture was changing and how its allocation of resources was being examined as it tried to improve its position in the marketplace. Students are asked to prioritize which people practices are most important for Zurich as it tries to shift its culture and more effectively leverage its human capital in order to reach its organizational goals.
Zurich Insurance: Zurich Oxygen
Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The case "Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices" (HBS No. 417-035) provides background for the company and an outline of each people practice. This case takes a closer look at the implementation of the manager development initiative "Zurich Oxygen."
Zurich Insurance: Diversity and Inclusion
Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The case "Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices" (HBS No. 417-035) provides background for the company and an outline of each people practice. This case takes a closer look at the company's efforts around diversity and inclusion.
Zurich Insurance: Global Job Structure and Data Analysis
Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The case "Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices" (HBS No. 417-035) provides background for the company and an outline of each people practice. This case takes a closer look at the implementation of a global job model and how it has enabled the use of data analytics in the human resources function.
Zurich Insurance: Recruitment
Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The case "Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices" (HBS No. 417-035) provides background for the company and an outline of each people practice. This case takes a closer look at the adoption of new recruitment practices.
Zurich Insurance: Talent Pipeline
Zurich Insurance was undergoing organizational change after implementing five new people practices focused on manager development, diversity and inclusion, job model and data analytics, recruitment, and talent pipeline. The case "Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices" (HBS No. 417-035) provides background of the company and an outline of each people practice. This case takes a closer look at succession planning at the top of the organization, including a focus on leadership competencies and development.
Joan Bavaria and Multi-Dimensional Capitalism
The case examines the career of Joan Bavaria, a pioneer of socially responsible investing and founder of Trillium Asset Management and Ceres, the nonprofit organization advocating for sustainability leadership. It describes her personal journey from art student and college dropout to financier and campaigner for corporate sustainability. Trillium grew out of Bavaria's initial work in Boston-based Franklin Research and Development Corporation and became an independent entity in 1982. Bavaria argued that investment houses could use their funds to promote corporate social responsibility and that such investments could be profitable. This was considered extremely unorthodox in the industry at the time. In the wake of the giant oil spill from the tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989, Bavaria launched the Ceres Principals aimed to generate standardized corporate reporting on environmental performance. Ceres grew as an organization and launched the Global Reporting Initiative in 1997. The case provides an opportunity to explore the opportunities and challenges of both SRI and corporate environmental reporting.
Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—formally part of the California Institute of Technology—is one of a number of federally funded research institutions within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. JPL has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, and in particular in missions to the planet Mars. As a project-based organization, JPL has many opportunities to learn between successive missions, but there are also many challenges to the development and exchange of experience-based knowledge. The main case decision point focuses on one such challenge in particular: how to instill in junior engineers the practice-based experience of their seniors. Jennifer Trosper, project manager for the Mars 2020 mission, is trying to decide whether or not to seek funding for a hands-on training program building miniature, educational versions of a Mars surface vehicle. However, the cases address a number of other decisions, such as determining the balance between innovation and replication of prior solutions, given that Trosper has been charged with re-using engineering designs from prior projects, but for an expanded mission. The cases also explore generic knowledge-transfer issues faced by JPL's Chief Knowledge Officer, David Oberhettinger, such as the role of documentation, uses of formal "lessons learned," and how best to use the scarce time of the most valuable JPL engineers.
Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (B)
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)—formally part of the California Institute of Technology—is one of a number of federally funded research institutions within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. JPL has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, and in particular in missions to the planet Mars. As a project-based organization, JPL has many opportunities to learn between successive missions, but there are also many challenges to the development and exchange of experience-based knowledge. The case "Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)" (HBS No. 917-405) provides background on the knowledge management challenges facing Jennifer Trosper, and in particular on her decision whether or not to seek funding for a hands-on training program building miniature, educational versions of a Mars surface vehicle. This case describes her decision and provides further information on subsequent efforts made after the initial decision.
Jill J. Avery
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator
Tatiana Sandino
Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration


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Mill Creek, PA – Today, Governor's Office of Broadband Initiatives Acting Executive Director Sheri Collins joined the Rural Broadband Cooperative and local officials for the raising of a new broadband tower on Stone Mountain in Mill Creek, Huntingdon County. Collins highlighted how Restore Pennsylvania will aggressively address the commonwealth's vital infrastructure needs and bring high-speed internet access to every Pennsylvanian.
Once fully operational, the tower will be capable of providing high-speed internet to 360 rural residents and businesses in the area. The tower is also completely self-sustaining, powered by solar panels and wind turbines that enables it to operate off the grid.
The project will provide additional internet service to Mill Creek and surrounding communities, but more resources are needed to implement projects like this on a larger scale. Across Pennsylvania, nearly a million residents lack access to robust, reliable high-speed internet. Lack of access hinders education, health care, emergency services, community development, and business attraction and retention.
The $4.5 billion bipartisan Restore Pennsylvania proposal will provide funding to completely bridge the digital divide in every community in Pennsylvania. If passed into law, Restore Pennsylvania will support every phase of the process, from feasibility testing to connection, at a level far beyond any existing funding mechanisms.
For more information about the Restore Pennsylvania plan and other DCED initiatives, visit the DCED website, and be sure to stay up-to-date with all of our agency news on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.


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I appreciate how you said that having a carpet cleaning service work in your home means that you will have dust-free air indoors. We have a daughter with asthma and we are worried that she will have problems breathing if we have carpet. It's good to know that we can have carpet and get it cleaned so we don't have to worry about her!
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To maintain the pristine look of the carpet , you must use the best quality product for it's cleaning. Such products doesn't fade it's color and help to retain the value of the carpet.
If you have invested in rugs and carpets then it's your duty to take great care of those rugs , keep it neat and clean so that it will add a charm to your floor.
Our rugs are in definite need of a good cleaning. Plus, having better air quality in our house will be a great added benefit. Getting rid of all the dust that's in them will help with our allergies, I'm sure.
I never would've thought about how many microcontaminants that can hide in your carpet! My sister recently had a baby, and she is very focused on keeping her house as clean as possible for her baby. I will be sure to tell her that she should get her carpet cleaned so her baby doesn't breathe in any harmful bacteria!
It is always better to call a professional carpet cleaner as the know the difference between different carpet fibres and which type of cleaning solution will best suit the carpet.
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I really liked what you said about how when you clean rugs, you will have to move things and treat it with chemicals yourself every month. I inherited an oriental rug from my grandma and I want to have it cleaned and keep it in good condition. Thank you for the information about how a good local rug cleaner can handle the process with ease to save me time and effort.
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