Firing - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

when a company attempts to move in on its market share, perhaps by offering price discounts. Since this strategy is viewed as more threatening, the competitor can be expected to retaliate with prejudice—often by firing off a campaign to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

pp. 10-12. Sheera Frenkel and Kevin Roose, Facebook’s Chief Admits Mistakes in Guarding Data, The New York Times, March 22, 2018, pp. A1 and A16. Jeff Muskus (ed.), Under Fire and Losing Trust, Bloomberg Businessweek, March 26, 2018, pp.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

3, a startup competitor—but was fired when his strategic recommendations for expansion didn’t align with upper management’s. At that point, Keen made good on his HBS application essay and joined Cherokee Nation Enterprises (now Cherokee... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

01 Jun 2008
News

You Only Thought You Were Republican

have been appropriate for Congress to drop everything and come back to interfere in the Terri Schiavo case. Like a wide majority of Americans, you think it’s nuts to be firing Arabic translators and fighter pilots just because they’re... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

praiseworthy. Most individuals who go against their organizations or express their concerns publicly are severely punished. If they're not fired outright, they're usually marginalized and made to feel irrelevant. Our research shows that... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

and then as a repo man for a bank. He was soon fired from both jobs. He was outspoken and liked to be left alone: the right temperament for a writer, but not for a business career. One year after graduating from the world’s most... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

Boxes”—many containing blurbs from Wikipedia—to counter claims made for cancer cures or conspiracy theorists. This involved a complex algorithm utilizing artificial intelligence that didn’t always work. For example, when Notre Dame burned several weeks ago, sites... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean? How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace? What do you think of this research? Share your insights below. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

Person Page

Julie Battilana's Most Recent Columns for "Le Monde"

By: Julie Battilana

Julie Battilana is a regular contributor to the French newspaper "Le Monde." Below are her most recent articles.

Where are the Political Ideas Being Produced?

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01 Mar 2004
News

David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation

627324) were reduced. Major Gurfein maneuvered to the breach sites in a “soft-skin” command HMMWV and as soon as his Task Force commenced work, he came under sustained indirect 82mm mortar fire and sporadic direct small arms fire. As... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Policies | MBA

Regional Director, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, J. W. McCormack POCH, Room 222, Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109-4557. Annual Security & Fire Safety Report Availability The University is required by federal... View Details

25 Mar 2018
News

Modernizing Infrastructure Management

infrastructure every second of every day. No one thinks about it until something goes wrong. “And cities often are in a position where they don't know what's going on with their own infrastructure because they don't have the tools to be able to maintain them. So, [a]... View Details

Portrait Project

Zameer Kassam

live every person's happiness, again and again. And I will do this while helping some of the poorest nations in the world. Long ago, in my family's tiny shop, the sparkle of a diamond ignited a fire within my soul. After years of keeping... View Details

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

graphic description of what he believes happens. “People notice what happens to owners And when owners are not promoted, groomed, and are fired for irrelevant reasons, many prospective owners learn to keep a barrier between the job and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Nov 2015
News

Connecting with Indigenous Traditions

rediscovering authentic and traditional ways to interact with a divine, natural world.” Today, he and Eagan also work as a Fire Keepers, hosting monthly fires and ceremonies near a tipi next to their house,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Jules S. Bache

Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company and the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

John R. Sculley

Leaving his position as CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Sculley’s first task as head of Apple involved cutting costs and cutting people, most notably, Apple’s founder and symbol, Steven Jobs. Though the firing of Jobs was difficult for many to digest,... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

plans to colonize Mars. Would Musk be able to realize his ambitious goals or was he taking too many risks with his investors’ money? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717431-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-046 X View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

have always been highly mobile, with more than 40 million leaving their jobs voluntarily in recent years. That’s roughly twice as many as are fired or leave involuntarily. It’s testimony to a US economy that produces a remarkable number... View Details