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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
helicopter. He was on the firing line in Marine operations in Somalia and Haiti, but it was in Eastern Europe that he was put to his greatest test. At 4:30 a.m. on June 8, 1995, Walsh, by then a captain, was the lead pilot as four... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
plus ultra of consulting outcomes - advising two different corporate leaders to fire themselves in order to improve their companies. « Back OPM: Executive Education for Entrepreneurs The Owner/President Management Program (OPM) is an HBS... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
the negative energy and animosity in DC towards the auto industry.” —John Smith (MBA 1976), group VP, global product planning, GM, on the controversial UAW jobs bank program “He did remarkable things. And the people who fired Rick had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Lance Batchelor (MBA 1993)
fellow adventurers on a journey together. You can try to get them really fired up about what you’re trying to do and why you’re trying to do it. And the advantage of that is if they find themselves making tough decisions on their own... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
for, and I think it’s a fundamental right every child should have,” says the French-born Dias Griffin, who worked at Goldman Sachs before attending HBS. Her time at HBS was a high-powered experience she describes as “drinking from a fire... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
serving on the boards. So the most important thing is what is the culture of the board? And is that a good fit for you? Will they listen to you? Is it a one-person to four-person thing or is it really a team, as a board, with everybody View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
more depth. “At HBS, the faculty think about things on a different level,” he says. “It’s intoxicating, so exciting and fun. That’s when I realized that in academia you can think about questions that fire you up and use what you learn to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
1990s in North Carolina. On election day, the employer went through the plant and randomly fired people but didn’t necessarily target union supporters. It was illegal, but the employer never had to pay any significant fines and bought... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career... View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
an HBS conference room in February, points to the ceiling. “It would be like in a big room like this. You’ve got one, two, three fire nozzles in this room.” Using the RedSeal analogy, if there was a fire at... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
something went wrong, he'll probably tell ten. Before long, everyone has heard a story about someone's bad experience." Putting Out Fires So what about the bad days? The business of preparing and serving food is a source of some of the... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
however, and protest strikes in response to a law proposed by Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri, under President François Hollande, that would make it easier for companies to fire workers and extend the number of hours in a traditional... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
analogy that Jen Pahlka who's our executive director here uses, is the house is on fire right now. That means we actually need to run towards it, not away from it. Luna: And how does Code for America work? What are the View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
And so you'd wake up at four in the morning and come down and get a propane tank and a torch, light it, and let the fire run on the valves to melt the asphalt so that you could actually turn the valve and start the morning. So I start... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
influence others. Leadership Courage is not theory; this is a book about the real issues of leadership: character, inner fortitude, courage, and identity. For those walking through the fires of life and leadership, this book will be a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
apparent at the time. But Ford dismissed sales figures documenting the product’s declining market share because he suspected rivals of manipulating them. When one of his top executives warned him of the dire situation in a detailed memorandum, Ford View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
globalization of markets and competition changed American business forever. Twenty years out, over one-third of the class had been fired or laid off at least once. Fundamental practices that worked for most of the century - large staff... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer