Resignation and Termination - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

resigned from a case after a client manufactured documents for their case. "I try to demonstrate that they can get a better result by being more open," she added. "I convey a sense of social responsibility by abiding by... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1999
News

Pearson Hunt

Industrial Administrator Program, the Army Quartermaster Corps School, the Navy Supply Corps School, and the Army Air Forces Statistical School (where I did my teaching), as well as the Navy's Contract View Details

Keywords: Pearson Hunt

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

December 2001 had severely eroded investor confidence and prompted Congress to legislate sweeping corporate reforms contained in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Donaldson’s predecessor, Harvey L. Pitt, had been forced to View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

15 Nov 2020
News

Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Greater China Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science & Tech Innovation Special Cooperation Zone Students learned how special economic zones (SEZs) are designed and how they can help spur investments and economic... View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

Reed Edwin C. Reed (MBA ’79) spends Saturdays with his family, but on Sundays, you’ll always find him at the office. Reed is the CFO of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens — a powerhouse religious institution View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

principles of partnership. Tierney: In these businesses, the people you pay are more important than the people who pay you. Your people are your product. This creates a complex and unforgiving business: If a professional service firm’s... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

people at Google and millions more around the world before Google CEO Sundar Pichai terminated him. The ensuing debate expanded far beyond the Google campus, during which many people sided with Damore as... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

encouragement. Entrepreneurship is like an intellectual onion, one of his Finance advisors told him. You peel it and peel it, it makes you cry, and there’s nothing in the middle. There were some exceptions... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

01 Dec 2014
News

Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

the distractions of email and a Bloomberg terminal are difficult to access, but a nap area is always ready. Portraits of mentors help Spier model his decision-making on their behavior. To keep focus View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Comfort Zone

industry, most recently as CEO of the Swiss/Chilean company Aport SA. Airlines have since abandoned all aspirations of luxury to focus on reducing operational expenses. It’s the reason we’re seeing a bumper crop of low-cost carriers, Fraser adds. If anyone is to pick... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

because corruption had destroyed her hopes for her country and her son’s future. “People in poor countries are not resigned to corruption, they actively despise it,” Baker says. “It is rooted in the weak... View Details

22 Jul 2019
News

A Way Forward for Women

After resigning last fall, Gorgas joined the board of an accounting software and services company and is now considering other board opportunities. “I was introduced to the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

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

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production line diagnosis View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2010
What Do You Think?

How Transparent Should Boards Be?

resign as CEO of HP, and on the board's discussion leading up to the decision. But we know that the board let Hurd go without cause, meaning that he qualifies for about $40 million in severance pay. (We also... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 May 2015
Blog Post

Tips for Applying to Business School

than later. I had intended to apply for the second round but missed the deadline because of a big project at work. I had resigned myself to applying the following year, but friends, family and the few HBS... View Details

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

terminate an unprofitable relationship for fear of being ostracized for their actions), relationship-specific factors (competitive grandstanding, for instance, can lead to a decision by vendors to persist in unprofitable relationships).... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

Web

FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

career path. You may model your letter on the donor thank-you letters you wrote as an enrolled student with added personalized information on your job and how you've applied your HBS education. I participated in the View Details

12 May 2022
News

Turning a Moment into a Movement

meaningful action, Gerstner himself initially considered resigning from a public board and asking to be replaced by a Black director. But as he consulted with friends and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2002
News

Banishing Balkan Ghosts

for freedom?” Djelic asked himself. That autumn, he resigned from McKinsey and bid farewell to his wife, Marie-Laure, and two young daughters, who stayed behind in Paris. He... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

same time remain flexible enough to source new expertise and knowledge from outside the company." The planned termination of the lowest performing employees was characterized as a way "to forget... View Details