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around the world, examples of antisemitic hate speech, graffiti, vandalism, riots, and fire bombings, as well as violence such as the stabbing of a young Palestinian boy and his mother in Chicago, have only heightened this fear. Other... View Details

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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

out a steamer of 700 tons.” 33 The steamship the Fire Dart alone turned a profit of $175,000 its first year. 34 John Heard to Augustine Heard, July 19, 1860. HC: EM-7. In July 1850, the Frolic shipwrecked off the coast north of San... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Runner-Up and Lovin’ It

Ã...ÃÂ¸ber-mogul Donald Trump. Twenty-two million people tuned in for the live final episode when Trump fired Jackson — “too textbook” — and hired cigar entrepreneur Bill Rancic. So what’s next? “I’m taking advantage of every kind of... View Details

Keywords: The Apprentice; Corporate Services

22 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

Those who aren't living up to BHC's values soon get the point. Employees at all levels in an organization notice and validate the elements of culture. As owners, they judge every management decision to hire, reward, promote, and fire... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

06 Aug 2021
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Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

successively by John Sculley, who was kicked out in 1993, Michael Spindler, fired in 1996, and Gil Amelio, a member of the board who took over from Spindler and was fired five hundred days later, the company... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

encourage general managers to bring counsel in early in the decision-making cycle; they should not wait until the last minute to fight a fire that has already started or to bless a deal that has already been struck. The available options... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

13 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

appropriate amount of all three. In this way and others, leadership of a business, family, and ownership is similar. In my next article, we'll take a look at what capable leadership actually entails for each of the three circles. Other Articles In This Series Managing... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

will make more money if I look industry-friendly,’” Egan says. To be sure, some arbitrators are more likely to support consumers, including the 11 percent of arbitrators who were previously fired as advisers by their firms. But these... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

and war. The play revealed the cruelty of a system of capitalism based entirely on salesmanship, in which bosses hired and fired people when they were no longer effective. "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away. A man is... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

of information technology at NYPD, Tisch learned to deliver essential services in fresh and innovative ways. And to her mind, sanitation is the most essential service of all. As she points out, the average New Yorker can go an entire lifetime without needing the help... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

poison in the workplace,” Jachimowicz says. “If two employees are competing for something, one may try to undermine the other.” Pretending doesn't work Expressing fire in the belly in a job interview can work in a candidate’s favor, but... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

investment performance of passive maturity transformation strategies over this period may mask the underperformance of the specialized bank activities. See Juliane’s other research here and Erik’s other research here . More Info Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence... View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

the form of the First World War. In a strange, sad twist of fate, two of the Endurance crew would be killed in the war. Imagine the extraordinary irony of having survived all that, only to be slaughtered by machine gun fire in the first... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

authority over the entire canal project, including the right to fire commission members. Secretary of War William Howard Taft had doubts about the legality of granting the chief engineer control over the commission, which was technically... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

20 Feb 2020
Op-Ed

Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.

string of firings of big corporate CEOs who had “inappropriate relationships” included the chief executives of McDonald’s, Priceline Group, Lockheed Martin, Best Buy, and countless others. In truth, the terminations were not over... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

strategy and operations (or tactics) are both important but they are different. The normal course of events is for companies to focus on day-to-day operations and short-term problem solving. Management meetings focus on fighting fires and... View Details