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- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
Japan Fellowship lit the fire for me. Now I want to light other candles.” The HBS Japan Fellowship relies entirely on contributions from alumni for its funding. One such donor, Thierry Porte (MBA 1982), calls the fellowship “an investment... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
should be a hard-ass and fire people all the time. I definitely was not that kind of CEO. I probably erred on the side of consensus and collaboration. The external environment is a big factor in creating company culture. For us, it is a... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
direct boss get fired for trying to inform the senior management. In 2011, Hunt was told to change the quality control reports so they looked better than they were. That’s when she took a stand. Episode two, “Ask Why,” focuses on Enron,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
faced another life-and-death experience when she was struck as a pedestrian by a car whose driver had fallen asleep. She lost both legs and today uses a wheelchair for mobility. "Bashert," she says, using the Yiddish word for destiny. "I was in front of the house of... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
rediscovering authentic and traditional ways to interact with a divine, natural world.” Today, he and Eagan also work as a Fire Keepers, hosting monthly fires and ceremonies near a tipi next to their house,... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
game. It just means that the world economy gets to fire on more cylinders, not just U.S. and European cylinders. What I worry about, and what was a motivation to write this book, is that without a clear picture of what’s happening, then... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Ever Need (over one million copies sold); Fire and Ice (a biography of Charles Revson and Revlon); Getting By on $100,000 a Year (and Other Sad Tales); and The Invisible Bankers, an irreverent look at the insurance industry. He has won... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
regular replacements. However, computer or IT professionals - even in the sharpest of companies - were too busy expanding services and fighting fires to replace programs people weren't complaining about. Then, too, some organizations... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
When Raghu Yarlagadda (MBA 2014) visited his native India in 2009, signs of a persistent energy crisis were everywhere: villages going dark to conserve energy, youngsters inhaling fumes while studying by kerosene lamp, and candles posing View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
that built America can once again help shape its future. After all, the lure of the open road has always inspired American imagination and innovation to fire on all cylinders — even when the journey’s route, and ultimate destination, have... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
crisis. So I was exhausted. And, I felt like I'd let everybody down. And just the endless criticism. You know, there are a couple reasons why I fired people when I fired them. And one is when they lost their... View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- News
“You Could Be Dead Any Second”
to exchange the Westerners for prisoners, Quin and the others were used as a human wall while their captors exchanged fire with the Yemeni army. “It seemed impossible that we could survive,” Quin told the Bulletin in 2002. But the moment... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
and WeWork—along with interviews and stories from their own personal experience, to make these ideas come alive. This book is your indispensable guide for unleashing greatness in other people and, ultimately, in yourself. Reimagining Capitalism in a World on View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)
prototype, they’ll test things with those customers, and they’ll learn faster than the competition. I’m really digging into FinTech at the moment. I pick a topic each year and do a deep dive. Otherwise you’re constantly reacting to a fire... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
tragedy as well as fame and achievement. In his notorious 1804 duel (depicted in this fanciful illustration) sparked by his defamation of Aaron Burr, Hamilton was killed after firing and missing his foe on purpose. A few years earlier,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Orientation Teamwork
FIRE AWAY: Each Learning Team built a catapult that was intended egg at a target 25 feet away without breaking the payload. PHOTO BY STUART CAHILL It may have looked like all fun and games, but the MBA Class of 2008 orientation in late... View Details