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01 Dec 2007
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Subprime Time

With markets reeling in the wake of the subprime mortgage fiasco, BusinessWeek (September 3, 2007) turned to Wall Street eminence and Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein (MBA ’71) for “much needed perspective on the current turmoil.” Asked about lessons to be learned,... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Wasserstein, MBA '71; Finance

12 Feb 2022
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Industrialist Rahul Bajaj Dies at 83

Photo via Wikipedia Photo via Wikipedia Rahul Bajaj (MBA 1964), former chairman of the Bajaj group, died on February 12 at the age of 83. Bajaj became CEO of Bajaj Auto, part of his family’s conglomerate, in 1968 at the age of 30. "Given my family background, I knew I... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the tax cap becomes a target companies... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2010
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Devilish Plot

Devilish plot: This year’s HBS Show, The Devil Wears Crimson (here in rehearsal), centered on an anonymous gossip blogger who wreaks havoc at HBS as she tries to uncover who caused the financial crisis. When she learns that her boyfriend’s faulty math is to blame, she... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2003
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Service with a Smile

data from 111 workers — college students who labored in service jobs — the pair measured job satisfaction and its relationship to whether workers were being asked to hide or exaggerate emotions. Their study, “A Longitudinal Analysis of... View Details

Keywords: Laura Morgan Roberts; Stephane Cote; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
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Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments

Professor Clay Christensen Professor Joshua Margolis Professor Joshua Coval Professor Tom Eisenmann Dean Nitin Nohria recently appointed four HBS professors as the first incumbents of newly created faculty chairs. Clayton Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of... View Details

04 Dec 2014
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Filling US skills gap

10 Oct 2014
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Ending Gender Discrimination Requires More than a Training Program

09 Oct 2013
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No more working at home for Hewlett-Packard employees

06 Feb 2025
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When Will Remote Workers See Their Pay Cut?

05 Aug 2020
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Workday is now 48 minutes longer amid coronavirus

26 Jun 2020
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Can a Co-Working Space Go Online? It Can in a Pandemic

03 Mar 2022
Video

Ela Bhatt

Ela Bhatt, the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India, discusses the importance of women's economic participation in society despite the lack of laws protecting their labor. View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

The Decline & Fall of Europe by Francesco M. Bongiovanni (MBA 1980) (Palgrave Macmillan) Bongiovanni gives an overview of the intractable challenges Europe faces today: the unsustainability of current entitlement levels, the question of Turkey’s accession, the seeds of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2008
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India is more Transparent

“Finding reliable, useful financial information is a real problem that anyone wanting to work at, sell to, buy from, or invest in a Chinese or Indian company must face. I am often asked for guidance in solving this problem and have found that the answers are different... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information