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- 24 Jun 2010
- News
Politicians Cause Downsizing
- 19 Jun 2023
- News
How to Advance Your Career When Your Company Is Downsizing
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
- 26 Nov 2013
- News
Managing People on a Sinking Ship
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
global electronics company during the entire course of a 25 percent downsizing. Every single one of the stimulants to creativity in the work environment went down significantly. Anticipation of the downsizing was even worse than the View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
care will they enjoy if you need to downsize and lay some of them off? I know you. You care about these things. It concerns you that the gap between upper-class Americans and everyone else has grown so gapingly wide. I know none of us... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
Cockerham agrees. "All of us have had to deal with restructuring, pay-for-performance, and personnel issues in a downsized or downsizing environment," she says. "We didn't need to have any background on... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
money left over for personal spending. But does that make their decision any less significant? It doesn’t feel right to quantify it that way. What do you think? Do you ever seriously consider downsizing your lifestyle, material... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
not-too-distant future. Those kinds of questions were very real for Cummins in the last decade as the company was forced by global competition to undergo considerable change. Amid downsizing and restructuring, how do you maintain the work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
downsizing at the Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and the merger of Chase Manhattan Bank with Chemical Bank. Based on interviews with CEOs, managers, investors, bankers, management consultants, and attorneys, the cases look... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
they implement their approaches in all the countries in which they operate. The research was sparked by a discussion of layoffs in the required MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Sucher was initially surprised to discover no clear academic consensus... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to pay his workers full salaries for three months. At... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
about reducing the company's work force; most downsizing was achieved through attrition and early retirement incentives. "This is not an earthshaking turnaround," notes the straight-talking DiCamillo during an interview in his modest... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
eighteen-year exercise in volunteer service at the HBS Club of Greater New York, where Burton and Dick Wedemeyer (MBA '63) would meet twice a month to assist alumni with job and career issues. "Often," recalls Burton, "these men and women were going through the trauma... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of capital in short periods. Even a quick... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power, intensified competition, and the human toll from corporate View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
corporations. After coming into vogue in the early 1980s when American businesses were threatened by Japanese competition, intrapreneurship was eclipsed by the reengineering and downsizing phenomena of the early '90s. Now, however, it is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
fast-food joints proliferate. Globalization and downsizing affected blue- and white-collar workers alike. “Layoff” used to mean “temporary unemployment”; now it meant “loss of job.” David McNew/Getty Images If we worked only four hours a... View Details