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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
agree, from sound values. No one in the investment business wants to be fired for poor performance (what Jeremy Grantham calls “career risk”). No money manager wants to lose their clients. No corporate CEO wants to be terminated. And as a... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
getting to a point where we can pass the ball to another person. "If something's running smoothly, and it's ho-hum," Wallace says of her work preferences, "then let somebody else do it. If it's a turnaround, startup, or fire fighting, I'm... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
advantage of the other. The case shows how each is faced to restructure as its competitive advantage erodes. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910410-PDF-ENG Playing with Fire at Sittercity (A) Noam Wasserman and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
ever fired a manager for unethical conduct and how whistle-blowers fared at the prior company. Q: You've suggested that companies use your decision tree to provide ethical guidance. Can you provide an example of when such a decision tree... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
they’re putting out small fires everywhere by answering emails and crossing relatively menial obligations off the to-do list. To relieve time stress, people would benefit by setting aside blocks of time every day or even just once a week... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
severe, a company shouldn’t be afraid to fire the worker. Leaders can’t worry too much about whether that worker might sue for wrongful termination. “Fear of lawsuits is not an excuse for not taking action,” Goldberg says. And when an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
alone for whistleblowers to come forward about them. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413040-PDF-ENG Olympus (B) Jay W. Lorsch, Suraj Srinivasan, and Kathleen DuranteHarvard Business School Supplement 413-075 This case outlines Michael Woodford's awards and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Editor's Note: As an institution charged with fighting global poverty, the World Bank has found itself on the firing line of late. Critics cite a persistent lack of transparency and failure to include local insights in decision-making... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
for a third force: a new enterprise logic capable of marrying the new markets for deep support and the new capabilities of the digital medium. The fire is laid. What's needed is the match. Many people already sense that there must be a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
Certainly things having to do with safety and security. I like to use an example of, we met with a company that makes robots that look like snakes and these snakes have sensors all over them and they send these snakes to try to go into dangerous buildings, say a... View Details
- 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
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
almost half the offer that Microsoft had made in its acquisition offer in 2008. The depth of the challenge is underscored by the frequent CEO changes the company has had, culminating in the recent firing of the latest CEO, Carol Bartz.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
a fund manager with an indistinct mandate, a manager who wants to exceed the concentration limit in an investment, tension between a star investor and her other partners, a founding partner who wants to fire the rest of his senior team,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
807-151 The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
Kansas, and each passing season brought its own drama, from winter snowstorms, spring floods and tornados to summer insect infestations and drought. Whereas most adults viewed these seasonal disruptions with angst, for a child it was considered euphoric. Downed trees,... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
remember that: It’s not a fire sale. Don’t let impulsiveness or exuberance get the best of you. We’ve witnessed unwise behavior, from both a legal and strategic perspective, when a NewCo becomes too eager to bring on a hot-ticket team.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
critical decisions. First, the other helicopter on scene was not only taking fire from an emboldened local militia, but the SEALs on board, having just seen what happened to the fellow soldiers on the other helicopter, were demanding... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
environment? A: The sociological literature contains a number of wonderful ethnographies—vivid descriptive accounts—of men doing dangerous work in such settings as coal mines, fire departments, and the military. Invulnerability looms... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
half the offer that Microsoft had made in its acquisition offer in 2008. The depth of the challenge is underscored by the frequent CEO changes the company has had, culminating in the recent firing of the latest CEO, Carol Bartz. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne