Loss - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
Case

Deloitte & Touche (A): A Hole in the Pipeline

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner

Deloitte & Touche was losing talented women, and CEO Mike Cook wanted to stop the loss, especially as the accounting and consulting fields became more competitive. The firm commissioned an analysis of the situation; now it had to consider the results and develop a plan... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

01 Jun 1998
News

Mark Tatum

In the case of Mark Tatum, medicine's loss will surely be the business world's gain. Almost since the day he was born in a war-torn village in Vietnam, his Jamaican-born father and Vietnamese mother had dreamed of the day their firstborn... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell

01 Dec 2011
News

Harvard Endowment Grows to $32 Billion

endowment grew to $2.8 billion, up 20.3 percent. Endowment distributions in fiscal 2011 constituted almost a third of the University’s operating budget. For the second year in a row, the endowment earned a double-digit investment return, compared to a View Details

Keywords: Endowment

01 Jun 2012
News

Faculty Research Online

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’ CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren’t as effective in... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

20 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

and senior tranches. The junior tranche absorbs losses from the pool until the portfolio loss exceeds 6 percent, at which point it becomes worthless. The mezzanine tranche begins to absorb View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

15 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)

inner turmoil and a loss of direction. All of which was aggravated by feeling that I lacked a supportive network as one of the few professional women on Wall Street. I realized I had stopped growing. Though I invested in growth companies,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

24 Feb 2022
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector

your unique professional experience in the public sector at HBS? I have worked on some of the most complex operating challenges facing governments to date, including lack of public trust, deteriorating service delivery, end-of-life systems, View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

Protecting the Power Grid

the second day of the workshop, Popik met Steve Mott, a nuclear engineer who works at the Palo Verde Generating Station, in Arizona, the largest nuclear power complex in the United States. Mott told Popik about a particularly terrifying threat: the long-term View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

increase. Growth without a change in productivity ought to lead to more jobs, but jobs of about the same quality as before. Growth with a loss in productivity is likely to lead to more but poorer-paying jobs. Only when the growth rate... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 2002
News

When a Rainy Day Comes: The Economics of Happiness

about 10 percent. The general happiness of the population suffers, too, even among people who do not personally experience job loss or reduction in income. For behavioral economists and politicians, among others, these findings raise the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Giving Back

It was in grade school that Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94) began to lose his sight due to macular degeneration, a retinal condition; by his junior year at Purdue, his vision loss was complete. Today, Gibbons is president and CEO of Goodwill... View Details

Keywords: disability; blindness; awards; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

Portrait Project

Mina Park

many different ways, even in my own home country, and yet I desire to belong and camouflage into the background. During the last six years that I have prolonged to finish my MBA – during which I have experienced a number of losses and... View Details

Web

2.5 Disciplinary Outcomes & Sanctions | MBA

above) Limited loss of access to CPD services for recruiting violations Suspension and Requirement to Withdraw Suspension is an action taken in serious disciplinary cases indicating that the student’s behavior is unacceptable in this... View Details

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS

during joyous occasions like welcoming new babies, receiving job offers or getting into graduate programs, or finally getting our little ones to sleep in their own beds at night. And we also rally around each other in times of sadness or hardship, whether it be the... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Turning Point: Network Effects

one of my last and most enjoyable flights. He was downright bubbly as we put on an impromptu air show over an Adirondack lake. Yet another had pages of combat time; he wrote my letter of recommendation for HBS. Those losses and more since... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)

01 Dec 2018
News

Turning Point: Crossover

to work hard, how to deal with adversity, and how to be on a team. Basketball can be preparation for life: You learn how to work hard, how to deal with adversity, and how to be on a team. Losses like that—real losses—are difficult, but I... View Details

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

produce a loss of productivity in another resource bundle. As a result, a team’s performance on the field depends not only on the productivity of the team’s resource bundles, but also on the coach’s ability to build a roster of players... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

cyber-insurance market: As claims pour in for losses due to everything from business disruptions to extortion, major carriers are raising premiums and reducing coverage. Not everyone is retrenching, however. In 2021, cyber-insurance... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

08 May 2015
News

Adopting a common language can strengthen global companies

language must also equip their employees to work together more effectively,” she says. According to Neeley, common-language mandates tend to be poorly implemented, leaving employees feeling diminished and insecure, and lead to losses in... View Details

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