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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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'…
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…