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  • 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
  • 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
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Camel and the Unicorn

children for modern American startup success—lost $10 billion between January and October of 2020. There’s also been huge social and political pushback against some of the tech giants, who are under fire for exacerbating issues of... View Details
  • 28 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

elite reviewer more likely to post a positive review, too—or a negative one. Of course, some reviewers care more about their reputation on Yelp than others; while others may prefer to never deviate from their prior reviews. How product quality changes. Say a restaurant... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage
  • 05 May 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

obfuscate, denial may be near, (7) while obvious, it is critical to tell the truth, and (8) it is better to be unconventional and right than it is to be conventional and possibly wrong, as in the old saying among information technology managers that "nobody ever... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

hire or a firing situation. Issues may also be more personal, such as how to bridge the enormous gap between the leadership of a company and retirement. EE: What sort of feedback have you received from past participants? Hart: They say... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • 08 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

wanted to make tough decisions rather than the fixer who puts out fires and makes things happen after those decisions are made? This slow, steady creep towards testing an idea of my own was greatly accelerated by the pandemic. The timing... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Truth Be Told

retaliate against the whistleblower, with firing being the most severe form of retaliation. Should companies do more to encourage employees to report misdeeds internally? Heese: Companies have to understand that their employees can be a... View Details
Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 21 Jan 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

2014, when George's branch obtained control and fired the CEO—who happened to be a cousin, Arthur T. Demoulas. Management was outraged, and the employees walked out in support of their CEO. The company lost tens of millions of dollars as... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 26 Jan 2015
  • News

The Ingredients for Success

University, she wanted hands-on experience and accepted a job managing a Pacific Bell call-center with 25 union employees, all of whom were older than Markowitz: at age 21, during her first week, she had to fire an employee. The job was a... View Details
Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Educational Services
  • 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
Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • 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
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 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
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 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
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 May 2019
  • News

Lessons from the Ashes

as you define it. It's a very personal thing. Dan: What does it mean for you personally? Warwick: Well, for me I started off with crucible leadership really in my own orbit, thinking about people who have bounced back from a business failure or being View Details
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

fired after their complaints have been lodged “confidentially.” Trust has suffered among employees, customers, and suppliers alike. This prompts the question of whether boards should hire compliance officers with independent status... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is finally becoming profitable, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Oct 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

since many have been occasioned by the firing of the recipients.) Some critics contend that managers have received a disproportionate share of the fruits of corporate success, leaving too little for workers or owners. Even hedge funds... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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