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  • 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
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

keep rewarding and promoting them. Managers may feel that they need them, of course, as they do perform well. So it is pretty gutsy to fire them in today's rather poor economic environment. But if you're really serious about building a... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
  • 10 May 2022
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

2008 terrorist strikes in Mumbai, when we had 30 employees in the two hotels that were targeted. Looking back, it’s those trials by fire that reinforce the importance of always, always relying on the expertise of one’s team.” Downtime: “I... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Leslie Gold

they didn’t do drugs, they were foreman material. Some nights I’d have to drag myself down to the plant because the burglar or fire alarm had gone off. The cops would be there, waiting. Fine. Except they’d tell me, “You go in first.” My... View Details
Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

circumstances will change. Their life path affects their productivity and their propensity to quit or to behave in a way that causes you to fire them. Understand the care demographics of your workforce. Make their caregiving lives outside... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 18 Oct 2024
  • News

My Worst Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

increase is largely driven by more functional specialists like CIOs or CMOs, not general managers.” “There ultimately is no such thing as effective selling that is not tied to the company’s strategic objectives” The reason for that is business is increasingly complex,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 10 Nov 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

organizations had 512 trustees and numerous senior staff. Levy oversees the Lincoln, but has no hiring or firing power within its organizations. Like many nonprofits, Lincoln Center has both thrived and struggled over the years. By the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Star-Kist was under fire because its fishing practices for tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific involved accidental deaths of many dolphins, since tuna typically swim under schools of dolphins. Preliminary marketing research confirmed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

have ever studied. He had an extremely complex personality, yet his products were paragons of clarity, simplicity, and elegance. He suffered a very public failure in the 1980s, when he was fired at the company he had cofounded, yet he... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology
  • 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
  • 02 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

wrong. We showed that Czechs are like all other Europeans, whose first interest is soccer, with erotica a close second. For that, we will never be forgiven." Second, when Lauder tried to fire Železný from TV Nova, Železný responded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

has a historic opportunity to recast itself, to meet the enormous impending demand for the new type of vehicles that a petroleum-deficient world will require. The dream machine that built America can once again help shape its future. After all, the lure of the open... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 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
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

After the Storm

class. When I started at Johnson & Johnson right after business school, I remember being the only African American female pharmaceutical sales rep in the mid-Atlantic region at that time. It’s a sad reality, but that is also why I get so View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 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
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