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- March 2012
- Background Note
Managing the Layoff Process: India
By: Sandra J. Sucher
This note is an overview of the context for managing layoffs in India. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that laid-off employees...
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Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Resignation and Termination;
Compensation and Benefits;
Ethics;
Management;
Employees;
Governance Compliance;
India
Sucher, Sandra J. "Managing the Layoff Process: India." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-068, March 2012.
- March 2012
- Background Note
Managing the Layoff Process: The United States
By: Sandra J. Sucher
This note is an overview of the context for managing layoffs in the United States. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that...
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Keywords:
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Resignation and Termination;
Compensation and Benefits;
Ethics;
Management;
Employees;
Governance Compliance;
United States
Sucher, Sandra J. "Managing the Layoff Process: The United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 612-067, March 2012.
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
organizations known for their prowess in developing their employees have to bear? What do you think? Original Article Last March 25, Jake DeSantis, then an executive vice president with American International Group, published his View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
board still looks a lot like that of a start-up. Of the typically seven members in recent years, only two could be regarded as outsiders. Last year, two of the outsiders failed to meet board or committee attendance guidelines generally thought appropriate for public...
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by James Heskett
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
Apple's Core (TN)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [809063].
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- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
challenge of sustaining a culture change in the years leading up to Carroll's resignation in 2013. "They've addressed the safety issue and taken major steps to change the culture," Mukunda says. "And the next question is,...
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- September 1985 (Revised January 1986)
- Case
Peter Wendell
Contains a description of a decision confronting an employee of IBM in late 1981. Should he leave IBM to become head of a new venture capital fund which will specialize in technology investments? The case is designed to expose students to the nature of the opportunity...
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Personal Development and Career;
Jobs and Positions;
Opportunities;
Valuation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Resignation and Termination;
Venture Capital;
Financial Services Industry;
Computer Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Peter Wendell." Harvard Business School Case 286-008, September 1985. (Revised January 1986.)
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
community-based health center) are also discussed. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308072 Global Climate Change and BP Harvard Business School Case 708-026 Following the sudden View Details
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Martha Lagace
- January 2023
- Case
Gerald Weiss (2023)
By: Brian J. Hall, Carleen Madigan, Andrew Wasynczuk and Caroline Witten
Gerald Weiss left Wall Street for the promise of a CFO position at a well-established corporation. He was given a 10-year options package with a guaranteed floor of $12 million and unlimited upside. To ensure the entire package would be worth at least $12 million after...
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Keywords:
Management Teams;
Resignation and Termination;
Executive Compensation;
Organizational Culture;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Stock Options;
Conflict and Resolution;
New York (city, NY)
Hall, Brian J., Carleen Madigan, Andrew Wasynczuk, and Caroline Witten. "Gerald Weiss (2023)." Harvard Business School Case 923-038, January 2023.
- November 2021
- Article
The Comprehensive Effects of Sales Force Management: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Selection, Compensation, and Training
By: Doug J. Chung, Byungyeon Kim and Byoung G. Park
This study provides a comprehensive model of an agent’s behavior in response to multiple sales management instruments, including compensation, recruiting/termination, and training. The model on agents’ behavior takes into account many of the key elements that...
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Salesforce Management;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Compensation and Benefits;
Resignation and Termination;
Training;
Behavior;
Analysis
Chung, Doug J., Byungyeon Kim, and Byoung G. Park. "The Comprehensive Effects of Sales Force Management: A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Selection, Compensation, and Training." Management Science 67, no. 11 (November 2021): 7046–7074.
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
transparency, adding 360-degree reviews for all employees and 360-degree feedback of his own work—he promised to resign if his own review dropped to a certain level. He set up a portal that asked employees to solve "my problems" and...
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by Kim Girard
- 22 Jul 2019
- News
A Way Forward for Women
After resigning last fall, Gorgas joined the board of an accounting software and services company and is now considering other board opportunities. “I was introduced to the talented female CEO of the company by another superstar woman...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
rejected. As a result, he resigned from the board of the organization he had founded to promote the sport that he loved. Today, Swearengin, an attorney who for 14 years has represented companies facing class action litigation and...
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- September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Deloitte & Touche women's initiative changed the workplace culture at the firm, solved retention problems, and brought external benefits. Now a new CEO must decide how to take this a step further as competition for talent was even stronger, young people had different...
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Keywords:
Strategic Planning;
Organizational Culture;
Accounting;
Gender;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Loss;
Change Management;
Jobs and Positions;
Resignation and Termination;
Accounting Industry;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jane Roessner. "Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace." Harvard Business School Case 300-013, September 1999. (Revised May 2003.)
- September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Deloitte & Touche (A): A Hole in the Pipeline
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Deloitte & Touche was losing talented women, and CEO Mike Cook wanted to stop the loss, especially as the accounting and consulting fields became more competitive. The firm commissioned an analysis of the situation; now it had to consider the results and develop a plan...
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Keywords:
Strategic Planning;
Organizational Culture;
Accounting;
Gender;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Loss;
Change Management;
Jobs and Positions;
Resignation and Termination;
Accounting Industry;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jane Roessner. "Deloitte & Touche (A): A Hole in the Pipeline." Harvard Business School Case 300-012, September 1999. (Revised May 2003.)
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
congressman and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. DeLay had a slew of scandals around 2005, charged with violating campaign finance laws and linked to lobbying improprieties, resulting in his 2006 resignation from office. He was later...
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by Roberta Holland
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
industry. Promoting from within is no promise of success, of course. Former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal was with the company 21 years before his forced resignation on October 30. But strong leadership and effective succession programs...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
in Washington for the next eight years. Reed returned to Allen as CFO in 1995 to oversee the building of its $23 million cathedral, which was dedicated two years later. (That same year, Flake resigned from Congress to return to Allen.)...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
dissertation focused on organizational mutiny. “Mutiny happens, but it’s hard to study,” says Merryman, noting that her interest in the topic was sparked by the 2006 resignation of Harvard President Larry Summers in the wake of a...
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- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
here that you could choose to participate in if you want to or not. I could make myself more wealthy. I could make other people more wealthy. That was my job. But it didn't feel big enough, purposeful enough, meaningful enough to me.” After four years in finance,...
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