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  • 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
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

different sources (e.g., food versus fire safety). Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning Authors:Gianpiero Petriglieri, Jack Wood, and Jennifer L. Petriglieri... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house fires or burst pipes; such losses... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

Dubai's history. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710061-PDF-ENG Malden Mills (A) (Abridged) Nitin Nohria and Thomas R. PiperHarvard Business School Case 410-083 CEO Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills decided to pay idled workers after a massive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

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
  • 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
Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel
  • 23 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

like when Apple was the subject of a New York Times feature about working conditions at its supplier, Foxconn. When you have the hundreds of workers killed in a garment factory fire in Pakistan or the collapse of a factory building in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

challenge from the perspective of large global apparel brands. This case helps students take the perspective of a Bangladeshi contract factory that is part of the brands' supply chain but must also deal with challenges in its own supply chain. The case leads up to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

to be a contrarian? Likewise, during a bubble’s revulsion phase, established corporations face interesting opportunities to acquire valuable assets at fire sale prices. One surprise from the early 2000s was how few corporations exploited... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • 28 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

committee, I had the pleasure of setting up a truly meaningful event with Professor Rebecca Henderson and Sir Ronald Cohen, who discussed their new books, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire and IMPACT: Reshaping capitalism to drive... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

For decades, Shabana Azmi has been a leading actress in Indian cinema. She has starred in many of that country’s most popular and acclaimed films, including the groundbreaking Fire in 1996, about a lesbian relationship between two... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

indicates the answer is yes. That is, by enhancing employee value managers can potentially add significant value to an organization. This research is particularly important to recall this week, when, with the close of the NFL’s regular season, teams View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

mentor to many entrepreneurs, describes how he responded to a manager who wanted to fire a salesperson. The customer loved the guy, but he wasn't working out internally. "Here's the desired result — to remove this person but with a... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
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