Firing - Publications - Faculty & Research

22–23 Sep 2020
Virtual Programming

Driving Impact: A Dialogue on Capitalism, Climate, and Social Change

Join Professor Rebecca Henderson and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969) as they debate the theories of change. The conversation will compare and contrast the authors groundbreaking approaches to rethinking the role of business in driving impactone through the lens of... View Details

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

standards. A second fire kills a suburban dad who filled his lawn mower with gas too close to a recently tossed cigarette; the fire raced up the flow of gas and into the can, which exploded. Who is to blame... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I build my business in this environment? What should leaders communicate? My organization doesn't... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Oct 2020
News

Cold Calculations

will be ice-free every summer. The response Payne hears to this warning from potential funders and partners is different than it was even five years ago. “You don’t need to explain to people the severity of the problem,” Payne says. As he speaks in late August 2020,... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

Web

Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

World founded 1909 Uprising of the 20,000 female shirtwaist makers in New York strike against sweatshop conditions Clara Lemlich and the Uprising of the 20,000 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory in fire in New York kills nearly 150 workers... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Tracking a Turnaround

semester, Roberto notes that it gives MBA students a chance to reflect on what kind of manager they want to be. “It also evokes a lot of emotion,” he adds, particularly after Levy fires his COO. “The class is universally in awe of Levy,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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

Portrait Project

Michael Murphy

mate!" Something about the Olympic movement lit a fire inside me. Olympians were my heroes. I wanted to become one. "Citius, Altius, Fortius" - "Swifter, Higher, Stronger" - became my daily mission. Eventually,... View Details

Portrait Project

Joseph Ferrer

It took a single shot to turn my entire world upside down. Fourth of July 2010. As fireworks lit up the sky above Lake Berryessa, fifty miles away, Big Brother fired a bullet through his brain. I still remember that night clear as day.... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time

When Raghu Yarlagadda (MBA 2014) visited his native India in 2009, signs of a persistent energy crisis were everywhere: villages going dark to conserve energy, youngsters inhaling fumes while studying by kerosene lamp, and candles posing View Details

16 Aug 2018
Blog Post

A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’

sound of birds and the sun peering through my blinds; I soon head over to the neighborhood gym, located in the garage of the Law Enforcement quarters. 8am – Coffee is brewing at the office. My co-consultant and I have an office in the Firehouse, about a mile away from... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Jun 2014
News

Taking the Lead in Support of HBS

"When it comes to innovative business education, HBS leads the way. I contribute on a regular basis because it's important to me that the School continues on that path." —Andrew Hauptman (MBA 1995) Chairman, Andell, Inc.; Owner and Chairman, Major League Soccer's... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

Portrait Project

Julie Ann Haldeman

slow Alzheimer’s encroach on grandma’s brain. Grandma struggles to string together words, but a fire lights in her eyes each time my mom reminds her, “This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it.” My mom embraces... View Details

06 Oct 2016
News

“You Could Be Dead Any Second”

to exchange the Westerners for prisoners, Quin and the others were used as a human wall while their captors exchanged fire with the Yemeni army. “It seemed impossible that we could survive,” Quin told the Bulletin in 2002. But the moment... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

An Electrifying Tale

fire alarm, security, and data lines — which is expected to grow to $10 million. For the employees, a stock ownership plan is in the works. “I want it to be a flourishing company that I’ll feel really proud of twenty years from now,”... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Portrait Project

Zuriel Chavez

and to value the sacredness of Thanksgiving; all foreign to a family of Mexican immigrants. At the 7:30pm nightly dinners he made mandatory, with the fire that comes with having lived in the United States through the 20th century, he... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Cable Gal

part-time. The old fires still burn, however, even though she is profoundly at peace. "I'm very tough, I'm very competitive," declared McCollough, who cites her strong Christian beliefs and church work as affording her a deep inner calm.... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

28 May 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

prototype, they’ll test things with those customers, and they’ll learn faster than the competition. I’m really digging into FinTech at the moment. I pick a topic each year and do a deep dive. Otherwise you’re constantly reacting to a fire... View Details