Resignation and Termination - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

always said, “Why would I retire? Everything I’m doing in my job, I’d be doing anyway.” And I truly believe that at the age of 85, he would wake up at 6 a.m., and the first thing he would do is go to his... View Details

Keywords: Finance

10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

think he respected me for it.” Fate factor: “Working for McKinsey in Tanzania, between my first and second years at HBS, was absolutely life-changing. It’s where I met Rukia Hamisi, who became a good friend; View Details

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Considering the title of the 1996 HBS Global Alumni Conference - The Information Revolution: "Bridging the Gap" - San Francisco was a particularly fitting locale for this forward-looking event. The city's Golden Gate has long been a symbolic bridge to the future, an... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

20 Dec 2019
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The 19 Musts of 2019

more to share, more to inspire. At 37, she was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, dying at 42. But her insights, lessons, and thoughts on humanity during those five years are nothing short of... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

facility by converting pier terminals and passenger ships. FPH has committed to provide $2 million to this effort. Finally, in collaboration with the Philippine General Hospital, FPH is set to increase their... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1999
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A Class Act

and planned to get her money's worth." Keep those cards and letters coming! February 1, 1928 Theodore Sander, Jr., has resigned his position with Goldman, Sachs & Company View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

bring along more successful people, and you’ll have more career endurance. Thirty-three million Americans have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021. What can good leaders do to make sure that workers are engaged View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

my estimation, an unnecessary $100 billion loss to the American taxpayer. I had learned by experience—the "bitterest" road—the power of vested interests in DC, and resigned after two years. Yet despite my... View Details

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

design. It’s a simultaneous ascending auction and it has these special rules, activity rules, and bid increments. And the way it closes, it doesn’t have any View Details

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

expansion have to reach everyone, from the dock to the boardroom. In November, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mitsotakis announced an investment by China’s state-owned shipping giant COSCO in the Port of Piraeus View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

and IBM tested such a concept in the early 1990s but terminated the project after failing to receive commitments from major record labels and retail franchisees. Perhaps more... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

professor. We became friends for life and HBS gave me a chance to leave US State Department while in South Vietnam and join the class of 1972 in January 1971 while on a sabbatical. I never looked back View Details

Keywords: Dean

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

and CEO Barry Diller. Mr. Diller was and is a brilliant businessman, but we simply had different management styles—I was unhappy and resigned... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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