Firing - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

not a serious daily threat for them. But then we’d hear, “I’m not going to be killed, but I could be fired by my board of directors.” Q: Give an example from the course of how you compare and contrast contemporary and ancient texts. Frei:... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

essentially enumerating the qualities that we should look for in a leader without suggesting how we identify and select for them. Some of the more interesting ones included Kapil Kumar Sopory's suggestion that we look for "... the person with the biggest View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

until a catalyst causes the situation to combust. Even former United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner would agree, Hanson says. “I know Tim pretty well,” Hanson says. Continuing the forest fire metaphor, he says, “He’s more of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

developments in the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry after the fire at Tazreen Fashions factory, including formation of the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord (“Accord”) and the Alliance for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

firing the worst offenders and beefing up formal channels for complaint. Will that be enough to create positive work environments? I’m also concerned about lingering micro-insults that arrive in a less overtly sexual guise, often shrugged... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

philanthropic efforts but more often helping communities through core business practices, such as gaining flexibility to hire and fire from the union by raising wages and increasing training or helping laid-off employees start small... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or the local View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

terms, both companies would like nothing better than to have customers to themselves, wrapped up in their own seamless media universes: iTunes, iPad, and Apple TV on the one hand; and Kindle, Amazon Prime, and Fire TV on the other. “Even... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

better than others. Most recently, the question has been raised about whether the case method encourages the development of skills in framing problems prior to decision making. Traditional cases have come under fire for being... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

internal investigations, dismissed its CEO, fired some 500 employees, and offered amnesty to workers willing to come forward with details of corruption. SNC-Lavalin, too, has fired its CEO and is currently... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

exactly like fire insurance. On any given day, you won't see any benefit. In fact, you could go years shelling out money for a service you aren't using. But on the day that, heaven forbid, your house does burn down, then you will... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

bigger, more visible issue in more firms with implications for building and sustaining a sales career. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55738 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Do Fire Sales Create... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

information from a desktop to the device. Once the capability became clear, he said, he too wanted to learn chicken-scratch graffiti. That push-button capability linking to a vast array of information from a desktop, he indicated, had View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

attempts at group creativity in companies ranging from startups to Hewlett-Packard and Intel, is their recipe for firing up and stoking the creative process. Promoting differences of opinion, setting aside an incubation period, and... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

like when Apple was the subject of a New York Times feature about working conditions at its supplier, Foxconn. When you have the hundreds of workers killed in a garment factory fire in Pakistan or the collapse of a factory building in... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

challenge from the perspective of large global apparel brands. This case helps students take the perspective of a Bangladeshi contract factory that is part of the brands' supply chain but must also deal with challenges in its own supply chain. The case leads up to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

to be a contrarian? Likewise, during a bubble’s revulsion phase, established corporations face interesting opportunities to acquire valuable assets at fire sale prices. One surprise from the early 2000s was how few corporations exploited... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

economic systems in ways that could well present unknowable threats to many of us. The threats are not certain. The victims are not known. But a fire is burning, and the smoke is swirling. The EIA/IEA reports also tell us-by country and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales By: Barbon, Andrea, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, and Augustin Landier Abstract—Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in... View Details