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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max Bazerman’s work focuses on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
don’t think about pay on a day-to-day basis. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity. People are least creative when they’re fighting the clock “on a treadmill,” having a fragmented day that doesn’t allow them to concentrate on a single important... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
be a banker. We work with major endowments, foundations, and countries that entrust us with their money. We assist millions of people every single day—to buy their first home, get their first credit card, or pay for college. I have a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators that we become later in life, paying dividends that far exceed any minimum-wage salary. Here, alumni share stories about their entry-level errors, as well as the personal and professional... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
was a kind of a bankruptcy,” Weiss says, “one that would allow the government to continue to use the funds that the island had to pay for essential services, put debt payments for the most part on pause, and force a restructuring of all... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
situations," says Klarman. Also at HBS, Klarman met Professor William Poorvu, who recruited him to manage a pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost Group. While the job initially didn't pay particularly well, it gave him a platform on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
trims stand to cut into senior partners’ profits, he says. “A lot of people don’t want to take pay cuts. So they shrink their cost structure and lay off junior investors or unproductive senior investors,” Tango explains. “That’s the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
donors,” says Rabah. “Thanks to scholarships, I will be able to choose a career that I find impactful and meaningful rather than seek a job just to pay off loans.” In turn, Rabah adds, “I hope donors take some credit for the positive... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
If the company is successful, that equity pays dividends. At C.H.I. Overhead Doors in rural Illinois, which offered equity grants shortly after KKR acquired the company in 2015, the first dividends were paid in May 2017. “I had colleagues... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
And Aisha unfortunately had the same condition that Tanya did. And then we had to battle like crazy to save her. We had to fly her to the UK. I had only $2,000 in my pocket. Enough to just buy an air ticket, one-way air ticket. I didn't know where I would stay, how I... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
siblings cited a deep regard for the School and a desire to pay tribute to their parents. "We wanted to give back to an institution that means a lot to us," says Harris H. Simmons (MBA '80), who succeeded his father as president of Zions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
anywhere, forever. But the business model is changing. Chacko likens it to the evolution of music sales, from analog purchases to digital purchases, to digital streaming platforms, in which you pay for access but not for perpetual... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
unhappiest jobs are similarly grab-baggy, and fairly unrelated to education and income: accountant, security guard, cashier, and supervisor. The fanciest job can be a disappointment or a triumph, and an “ordinary” job with moderate pay... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
Qwest was headquartered. Within a year of the reporting, the story had escalated to federal regulators, and Qwest agreed to pay $250 million to settle a SEC investigation into its accounting practices. Then, in 2009, two months shy of its... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
father did not mean that Johnson didn’t have to pay her dues to work at the company. As an equity analyst summer intern, she and her cohort pulled all-nighters before industry reviews. That experience solidified her interest in working at... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
of the ocean plastic problem is our plastic.” To get higher rates of recycling in impoverished communities, Goodwin says plastic has to have economic value. “If you can establish a value in those plastics, people will pick it up. Paying... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
developmental ambitions that lay at the heart of his domestic and regional Cold Wars. Paying close attention to the interrelationship between the domestic and the international, the political and the economic, Suharto’s Cold War makes a... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
my calculator collection to pay for my rent in the halfway dorm in France. I bought myself a bicycle for 50 euros and I bicycled to university and sat with everyone half my age. And learned about space policy and quaternions and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
concentrate on the human element, calling people rather than e-mailing them, talking about their family as well as their business. We also set our salaries higher than our competitors, and then add to them with pay based on performance.... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
will both help people and inspire other entrepreneurs. “The last way you’re high-impact—and frankly this is the reason I decided to do this—is when you pay it forward as an entrepreneur,” he says. “Once you’re successful, you re-invest... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman