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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome of these international... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
white men. When Ballard was a boy growing up in southeastern North Carolina, his father started a pulpwood logging company. “People would pay him to clear commercial and residential property, and he would take the lumber and sell it to... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Removing Barriers
burden of paying for an education, Anita says, allows students to make career choices after graduation that are less focused on paying back student debt. She adds that bringing View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75 governments, corporations, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
echelon of management is being paid, thus placing the focus on internal equity. Finally, compensation committees should focus more on what the shareholders will accept. As CEO pay rises, it becomes, along... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
drinks that would win the brand international recognition. Smith liked the café concept and the enthusiastic workers behind the counter; he took a substantial cut in pay to sign on as EVP and CFO. Today, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Rewarding the Top Dog The media, institutional investors, and even government officials all seem to have an opinion about CEO compensation, often criticizing how and how much top executives are paid. But do CEOs really dictate their own paycheck, and is their View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 30 Oct 2019
- News
Creating Agents of Change
Susana Eshleman (MBA 1998) is president and CEO of Children International. In this interview she talks about the goals and benefits of running an international nonprofit organization. “Children International... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
inequalities, the challenge [is] who should pay for the fight against climate change. And now there's a third piece that has been added: how to address the issues around the conservation of biodiversity. “So climate change, View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
There is a hunger for foreign news. The BBC World Service is a successful global venture; America’s National Public Radio has millions of loyal listeners, many drawn by its coverage of international news. A group of investors, including... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
80240ad2c5f43acc66f13dc5e89928ff There’s not much room for theory when Patrick Kuhse talks about business ethics. A successful stockbroker and entrepreneur, Kuhse became an international fugitive after being charged in 1994 with 32 counts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on performance pay before the U.S. Senate and served as a consultant to many international companies. The issue of to what extent the financial crisis was driven by misaligned View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
For marketers, how big is the World Cup? Its power can't be overstated. Some 3 billion people will watch the tournament, and marketers will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to engage their attention. FIFA, the governing body of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
She loved being on the business side of the house. “I found I enjoyed the work far more than sitting in a lab by myself all day. I loved engaging with different people and parties, both internally and externally,” she says. Kim had no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
CURRAN: "The most important thing I learned is that central planning in such situations doesn't work." Courtesy Dan Curran International relief agencies that raced to aid Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh province have a lot to learn from... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy jobs she aspired to had MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
Named the 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1997, Charles O. Rossotti (MBA '64) heads the Internal Revenue Service, which has 102,000 employees, a $7.8 billion budget, and annual revenue collections... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or international joint... View Details