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- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the Jack Welch-style of firing the so-called bottom 10 percent every year." Recruit developed this strategy in the wake of crisis. In the 1980s, Recruit Holdings’ CEO sold shares of a subsidy before it went public. The resulting scandal... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Stock exchanges as auditors? The stock exchanges should be responsible for hiring and firing auditors, negotiating their fees, and overseeing the outcomes of the audits themselves, say Healy and Palepu. As they see it, the exchanges have... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
certain aspects of sponsorship programs can hinder women instead. Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than MenWomen caught in misconduct were 20 percent more likely to be fired and 30 percent less likely to find new employment in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
BULLETIN EXPANDS DIGITAL OFFERINGS Following on the heels of the June debut of our iPad edition, the Bulletin is now available for download in the Google Play and Kindle Fire newsstands. Smartphone users have new options, too: The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
evaporation and four refrigeration machines, or chillers (in background). Through the blue pipes, cool water is pumped to campus from which it returns as warm water, which is sent through the chillers. Heat is transferred to water in the green pipes, which is pumped to... View Details
- 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
- Web
The Case Method | MBA
something about it. Jan W. Rivkin C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration Play Faculty Perspectives on the HBS Case Method video Play Video duration: 2:59 Alumni Perspectives You walk into work every morning and it's like a View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
Joss Kent’s (MBA 1997) first memories are of being on safari. “I remember the smoke rising from the fire to boil water,” says Kent. Safari was the family business: His grandparents and father founded luxury adventure-travel company... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
investors, or other members of development teams. Firing Back by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (MBA ’78, DBA ’81) and Andrew Ward (HBS Press) The authors lay out a novel five-step recovery process to rescue a career: “Fight, not flight” (face the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
early December, the board fired Wallace as CEO. A few weeks later, the company closed for good. It isn’t the sort of story that alumni like to trumpet when they return to their alma mater. But today, that is why Christina Wallace is back... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
solve supply-chain issues, Minnick and her team can help businesses mitigate disasters; and they can provide data to first responders as well, sharing imagery of unfolding events such as fires and floods on social media channels through... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor - Course Catalog
salesperson Train, manage, promote, and fire your first sales team Establish your first sales plan Manage the board’s expectations on revenue Instrument an accurate forecasting model “Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
LovePop. You’ve been in front of VCs before. How does this experience differ? It’s so different. My experience with pitching VCs is in a much more casual environment. It’s at a coffee shop, at a conference room table—it’s never you standing in front of five competing... View Details
- 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
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Marcela Sapone
it. It didn’t matter what we were working on, she was going into the fire with me. We have a saying about our friendship: I start fires and then she puts them out or maintains them as appropriate. View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
Soon she’d covered her fire escape with tomato vines, and when the fire department gently reminded her that wasn’t the purpose of the space, she branched out. “My first community organization project was to... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day
As Memorial Day approaches, it’s natural for our minds to drift to summer – thoughts of firing up the grill, getting a boat in the water, or vacation travel would (at least in normal times) tantalize us through workdays that seem to grow... View Details
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Career Risks and Professional Growth: Finding a Fulfilling Career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) - Recruiting
With nothing to lose, I decided to start my own business. Classes and previous startup experience had not fully prepared me for entrepreneurship. I needed to find clients, build a team, and establish myself in an entirely new way. Over time, I learned to hire slowly... View Details
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Mobility Policy | About
possible, store scooters and bikes outdoors and properly lock the device. Park in a designated parking area, a rack, or your residence hall room. Park devices upright, and don’t park in a way that obstructs accessible pathways, building entrances and exits, driveways,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
English. But it needed all synapses firing to fend off the flesh-and-blood HBS team (MIT finished a distant third). Named after IBM patriarch Thomas J. Watson, this Watson is endowed with a canned male voice that recalls the creepy... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons