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  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

and pursuing what lights a fire within you. Artist and engineer Paul Kirby guides you through his proprietary FUSE method: Find your passions, upgrade your skills, start fusing, and continually evolve. He illustrates key principles using... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

(1). The culprit, however, was not the mammoth coal fired power plant under our feet. In fact, Tata Power equipped Trombay with state-of-the-art air pollution mitigation technology to minimize both NOx and SOx emissions, as well as... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Up on the Green Roof

chief of Operations. “We have photovoltaic panels on a portion of the roof, and we run a cogeneration plant in the basement that uses natural gas to fire a generator to help power the building, with the waste heat going to create domestic... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

challenges as it seeks to continue its growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816013-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-010 The Allergan Board Under Fire (A) In 2014, the Allergan Inc. board of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

organizational overhaul. Long-term coach Ron Rivera was fired and Matt Rhule was hired as the new head coach. Newton, having started only two games all last season, was in the last year on his contract. With his injury concerns, Carolina... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

firing the worst offenders and beefing up formal channels for complaint. Will that be enough to create positive work environments? I’m also concerned about lingering micro-insults that arrive in a less overtly sexual guise, often shrugged... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 27 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

philanthropic efforts but more often helping communities through core business practices, such as gaining flexibility to hire and fire from the union by raising wages and increasing training or helping laid-off employees start small... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

globalization of markets and competition changed American business forever. Twenty years out, over one-third of the class had been fired or laid off at least once. Fundamental practices that worked for most of the century - large staff... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 06 Sep 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

don’t think it’s possible to formulate a rule that applies in every such situation.” He went on to say, “The scariest part of this for me is that leaders are coming under fire increasingly for what they didn’t say and didn’t do members of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

investors seemed to lie in the decisions that followed the investment. In addition to granting cash, venture capitalists are heavily involved in hiring or firing the CEO of the portfolio company, choosing a board of directors, devising an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

of the inner workings of the firm, fires the CEO but appoints an acting CEO while a talent consultant is hired to begin a search for a replacement. Given the natural bias of the search firm and the board's recent bitter experience, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea

the pressure of work or classes get in the way? I needn’t have worried. People were fired up. When I asked participants to write down what their priorities were, I could see the notebooks and pencils moving, with pauses to think. And at... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

New York. You may not know that earlier in his career, he was fired from his first big job at Salomon Brothers. He later wrote, “Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me. It opened the door... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

The Rankings Game

numbers. The Economist also gathers data on the percentage of international and female students and the number of languages offered. Meaningless Beauty Contests? BusinessWeek fired the first shot in what became a media ranking “arms race”... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 08 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

Prosperity Coming to HBS, Mbanusi was clear on his passion areas and saw business as a catalyst for change, but he also wanted to spend time determining how best to make an impact. “You’ll hear people say it’s like drinking from a fire... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Spirit at Work

ultimatums or drawing lines in the sand, the kind of petty, superficial responses that really only create enemies. If someone blew up at me, instead of firing him, I'd say, 'Let's work together.' I deferred to the wisdom of my team and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

ObenchainHarvard Business School Supplement 310-057 After posting its first-ever quarterly loss in 2008, Goldman Sachs surpassed market expectations for the first quarter of 2009 but came under intensive fire for, among other things,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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