The Sinking of the Costa Concordia – Student Presentation
It has been one of the most spectacular accidents at sea: in January 2012, the cruiser Costa Concordia ran aground and sank in Italy. More than 30 people lost their…
Sex Scandal at Oxfam – Student Presentation
Masters Students in the Error Management class at Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management are to research and present cases of organizational errors. During the first quarter 2018, the famous NGO…
Nestlé Baby Milk Controversy – Student Presentation
How has Nestlé become of the most controversial companies in the world? Masters Students in the Error Management class at Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management analyzed the question…
The Monkey Hoodie Scandal at H&M – Student Presentation
Social media give a wholly different dimension to advertising mishaps. H&M, the fast-fashion brand, experienced it the hard way when it published images of a black boy with a hoodie…
UBS’ Rogue Trader – Student Presentation
Rogue trading scandals are often viewed as utter violations from malevolent individuals. A more detailed analysis, however, reveals that such incidents rarely happen without there being errors in organizations. Then…
False Missile Alert in Hawaii – Student Presentation
Early in 2018, while relations between the US and North Korea were at their lowest point, inhabitants of the state of Hawaii received a dreadful SMS alert: INCOMING MISSILE! Fortunately…
HP’s horrible acquisition – Student Presentation
How could it happen that a company as renown as Hewlett-Packard had to write off billions of dollars after the acquisition of Autonomy, a relatively small British company? As part…
Flight cancellations at Ryanair – Student Presentation
Remember the massive flight cancellations at Ryanair in 2017? There were organizational errors at the root of the crisis. As part of their final assignment, a group of Masters students…
The Fall of Take Eat Easy – Student Presentation
For a couple of years, Take Eat Easy has been a success story of the business scene in Belgium. It seemed that the food delivery start-up would rise to entrepreneurs'…
New videos from the Strategic Error Management course
Group 1 investigated a disaster that was very recent at the time of the course in 2017, the Oroville dam flooding. https://player.vimeo.com/video/255896075 Group 2 went way back in time to…