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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
trades or as free agents. The NFL instituted unrestricted free agency on March 1, 1993. Prior to this, under “Plan B,” a team could protect 37 of its players with the right of first refusal. The plan also restricted player compensation.... View Details
- 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
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
programs: one week in Los Angeles to secure Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Fire Safety Protection Association (NFPA) safety licenses and additional certifications from EV... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
soil-depleting cycle of pesticides and fertilization. Sacred Seed started with a simple question one of Keen's mentors asked him over 15 years ago: "What are you doing to protect your corn?" But another part of the story is more personal,... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
your mistakes. And that means firing people who don't work out. And we're pretty good about that, too. Sahlman: Scott, I take it you haven't had to fire anybody? Randall: Exactly, I've made perfect hires my... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
inappropriate touching that the person wouldn’t get a promotion or raise or might even be punished or fired? By tolerating bad behavior or allowing it to escalate, did the employer create a hostile work environment? Protect the accuser... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
describes a growing experimental literature that suggests how perceived ethics surrounding transactions with multiple partners can encourage misbehavior. It is noted that causing harm indirectly through another can protect harm doers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset for the "Audit Policy," a United States Environmental View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
satisfy finicky customers. It was a baptism by fire that gave Makarim the confidence to turn to Go-Jek full-time and reimagine the company as an app-based service similar to Uber. Uber, which launched in San Francisco in 2010 but had not... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
of a fire bell in the night—and provide a road map and additional examples for companies to follow. Lagace: Why do you think capitalism is at risk? Bower and Paine: In Chapter 4 we lay out the pre-conditions or foundations for a thriving... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Farrington worked all over the world in investment banking and a decade into her career, she hit a major speed bump. Deborah Farrington: Probably one of the biggest earliest challenges I faced in my career was being fired from Merrill... View Details
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
firing and take lower profits, thereby gaining the advantage when the economy turns around. Below is a short section from my forthcoming book, High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g.,... 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
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and other investors, holding 28 percent of the company's stock altogether, withheld their votes for the 30 percent of directors that they could vote on as a sign of protest against the management of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809089 LeBron James Harvard Business School Case 509-050 In 2005, to the astonishment of many sports industry insiders, superstar basketball player LeBron James fired his... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
vexing challenges—most stemming from the tensions between protecting existing revenue streams critical to current success and supporting new concepts that may be crucial to future success. In this article, Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne