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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him. It was also central to how Sam built Circuit City.

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Could Target Have Prevented Its Security Breach?

Harvard Business Review

FireEye''s automatic malware-deletion function wasn''t enabled (which isn''t uncommon, as many organizations want a person, rather than a machine, making the decisions), and the alerts were ignored. Crisis management Information & technology Technology' Except no one did anything.