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- 08 Sep 2011
- News
Why Founders Get Fired
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
morning one of Traeger’s big rigs was set on fire in the parking lot, apparently in protest of his decision to outsource shipping to UPS. “The culture was so toxic, I knew it would ruin me and everyone I brought into it,” he says. Andrus... View Details
- August 1993
- Case
You've Just Got to Fire Him (A)
A CEO has decided to fire his head of sales, but stumbles over the question of when and how? This case describes the background and the resolution that it had to be done in June of 1992 in a particular way. View Details
Barnes, Louis B. "You've Just Got to Fire Him (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-028, August 1993.
- January 2021
- Case
The FIRE Savings Calculator
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This case follows Carol Muñoz, a member of the Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) lifestyle movement. At the age of 45, Carol is considering retiring and living off the $1 million she has accumulated. Using Monte Carlo simulation, Carol forecasts the... View Details
- October 2003
- Case
Fire at Mann Gulch
Describes the 1949 firefighting tragedy in Montana that led to the deaths of 12 smoke jumpers. Explores the myriad of poor decisions by the firefighting crew and their foreman. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Public Administration Industry; Montana
Roberto, Michael, and Erika Ferlins. "Fire at Mann Gulch." Harvard Business School Case 304-089, October 2003.
- 06 Aug 2012
- News
Social Media on Fire
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
The Student Debt Crisis, and the FIRE Movement
- 08 Jul 2009
- News
Energy Traders on the Firing Line
- 11 Jan 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales
- January 2017 (Revised August 2019)
- Supplement
X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (B)
By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella
Three years after launching his brick-and-mortar store, X Fire Paintball and Airsoft, Steve Herbert Sr. and his sons began selling products on Amazon.com’s third-party Marketplace and online sales expanded rapidly. Over time, X Fire noticed that products of which it... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Competition; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Small Business; Retail Industry; Canada
Zhu, Feng, and Angela Acocella. "X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 617-047, January 2017. (Revised August 2019.)
- 16 May 2011
- News
Multinationals under fire from campaigning
- July 1992
- Background Note
Swiss Fire Detection Equipment Industry
Enright, Michael J. "Swiss Fire Detection Equipment Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 793-030, July 1992.
- March 2010 (Revised November 2014)
- Teaching Note
Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers?
By: Willy Shih
Teaching Note for [610077]. View Details
- March 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers?
By: Willy C. Shih and Halle Alicia Tecco
Pandora Radio is at a crossroads. Founder Tim Westergren has just been told by a well known VC to get rid of his unprofitable customers in order to get his costs down, but Westergren is not sure that such actions are consistent with his company's business model.... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Customer Satisfaction; Music Entertainment; Venture Capital; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Internet; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Halle Alicia Tecco. "Pandora Radio: Fire Unprofitable Customers?" Harvard Business School Case 610-077, March 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
- 1 Jul 2003
- Conference Presentation
Friendly Fire and National Security
By: Scott Snook
Keywords: National Security
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
Last winter, Sherm Baldwin (HBS '97), six months shy of his thirty-second birthday and a member of the School's new January cohort, sat in Aldrich Hall and awaited the possibility of his first cold-call. While many of his classmates anticipated the experience with a... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 14 Sep 2017
- News
Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
- 10 Oct 2014
- News