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- 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
- 30 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Searching for Professional Passion Through My VC Summer Internship
adversity to make it to HBS, from working from a young age to support their families to staring down incoming enemy fire while defending their countries. In contrast, I feel I’ve lived a relatively privileged life. It's possible to find... View Details
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
curriculum that could help close the gender gap by encouraging STEM education set a fire in my heart.” Looking Ahead Clearly, Takatsuka is making the most of the summer between RC and EC year, building startup experience and working to... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
Way Millions Shop, and I had the opportunity to interview Alexandra. Learning more about what she gained from her experience at HBS inspired me to give business school a real look.” Once Girard landed at HBS, she experienced what so many students do. “It was like... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
Companies producing solar and wind energy products, for example, compete for customers in the electricity market, which is far more competitive than the vehicle fuels market. Driving this competition is the rich supply of coal that fires... View Details
- 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
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
direct boss get fired for trying to inform the senior management. In 2011, Hunt was told to change the quality control reports so they looked better than they were. That’s when she took a stand. Episode two, “Ask Why,” focuses on Enron,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
faced another life-and-death experience when she was struck as a pedestrian by a car whose driver had fallen asleep. She lost both legs and today uses a wheelchair for mobility. "Bashert," she says, using the Yiddish word for destiny. "I was in front of the house of... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
and eventually the inevitable happens. I realize that if I don't fire Bob, I'm going to lose all my star performers because they're fed up with having to redo his work, having to cover for his mistakes. So I sit down to have a... View Details
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
per visit on the site. But MySpace and its rivals have also come under fire from law enforcement officials, policymakers, and parents, who worry that they are a haven for child predators. Given that backlash, is MySpace a safe bet for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
to be killed, but I could be fired by my board of directors.” Give an example from the course of how you compare and contrast contemporary and ancient texts. FF: In the module Not Forever, we read Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s [MBA 1995]... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
language it uses to communicate. Why Do Outlet Stores Exist? Created in the 1930s, outlet stores allowed retailers to dispose of unpopular items at fire sale prices. Today, outlets seem outmoded and unnecessary—stores have bargain racks,... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
school prepare them for the real world, and what did they wish they'd learned? Do things that seem a little strange and leave you a little exposed but give you access and huge returns over time.—Beverly Anderson, HBS MBA '97 "I didn't learn how to hire and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
after she finishes work. His cell phone beeps: It's a message from the Soda X portal. The Chicago Fire soccer team is playing tonight, and the Guess? store that Tommy is approaching is offering him half-price tickets for the game if he... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
small amounts of money for control of the most promising dot.coms subject to this fire sale? On another level, the question might be raised whether or not this game resembles roulette. For example, the corporate histories of the most... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Taking Care to Prepare Leaders: Lessons in Leadership Development from DaVita Kidney Care
assigned full responsibility for a DaVita clinic. During their four-to-six month stint in the “Leadership Practicum,” Redwoods dive deep, empowered to hire and fire teammates, and manage finances. “Most importantly,” Coyle notes, “they... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
horses are fast enough for the decade to come. They pride themselves on being obsessive about managing for performance, on paying and promoting those who deliver while firing those who don’t. But often these kinds of companies think that... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
own perspective on the city’s evolution as an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Emanuel, for example, cited an historic event that fostered the city’s resilient, civic-minded culture: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Having the can-do attitude... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
rewarding high-performing teachers, and retraining and/or firing badly performing teachers," the paper states. In the United States, India, and China, managerial use of incentives are much more common than the use of monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel