Age - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

Nelson's successful and smooth transfer of his CEO role at age 58 to his very capable nephew, Eduardo Melzer, 40. Nelson remains chairman of the board with clear responsibilities. RBS is stable and poised for more great performance. My... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

age of 88. Chandler was perhaps best known for his book The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1978. In it, Chandler argued that management, a visible hand, had in some... View Details

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

population being diagnosed today, and the median age of diagnosis in early to middle adulthood. Rare diseases are plagued with delays in diagnosis, as well as frequent misdiagnoses (40% of cases) . Coupled with a lack of treatment... View Details

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

A few years ago, Reshmaan Hussam and colleagues decided to find out why many people in the developing world fail to wash their hands with soap, despite lifesaving benefits. Every year more than a million children under the age of five die... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

Companies face a growing yet largely undetected threat to their worker productivity, employee retention and, ultimately, competitive advantage: the needs of employees who are caregivers. The aging population, an increasingly female... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

Ron Johnson's latest undertaking has the makings of a perfect business school case study. As the new CEO of J.C. Penney he's charged with transforming an aging department store chain with lagging market share. The sweeping plan begun... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

01 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

bequeath themselves expensive office facilities and luxurious corporate jets make different business decisions than those who do not? In this age of Wall Street excesses, these are pertinent questions that could further our understanding... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Oct 1997
News

Brice Cutrer Jones

still on their stems. Inside the state-of-the-art winery, where the cellar temperature is a constant 48 degrees, the juice is aged and fermented inside barrels coopered from air-seasoned oak staves made in France, from trees Jones... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

25 Jan 2023
News

The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason

to the CFO office at Citi. In the interview, Mason talks about growing up in Queens, in a family full of business-minded people, but wanting to be a doctor when he was a child. Even from a young age there were signs that he had a knack... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

disclosure of the information, the resolution of any pending or threatened disputes, and enforcement of our agreements. COLLECTION OF DATA FROM CHILDREN Our Services are generally not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

Related Reading Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate Where will artificial intelligence and machine learning... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

Cotrugli, the appropriate age for retirement was not 65 or 70, but 50 (life expectancy was shorter in those days and Cotrugli himself would die at 53). At 50, the merchant’s “natural fervor abates, his blood calms down, his intelligence... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals

coaching, at any age or stage, begins with where you are, here and now. Fortunately, there's one thing it should not begin with. "Don't come with the first draft of your action plan!" says Butler. "One of the things that... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Influence: Medium-High 70 1970 s 19 Urban blight Rust Belt Influence: Medium-High 80 1980 s 19 Population migrates to West and Southwest Influence: High 90 1990 s Immigration tops 9 million (largest number since first decade) Baby boomers View Details

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

New York-Presbyterian Hospital Nexeon MedSystems NextCare Urgent Care Northwestern Memorial Hospital Novartis International AG Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc. NP Medical Inc. O OmniGuide P Partners... View Details

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U.S. Steel | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

company plants appeared in national magazines, company publications, and exhibitions that reached large audiences. This stunning body of images included the work of noted artists, photographers from the corporation’s engineering corps, and local studios near company... View Details

Portrait Project

Jennifer Wu

struck me that his once-dark head of hair is now predominantly white. As their only child, how have I not noticed these creeping signs of aging before? That was when it hit me – in the relentless pursuit of my goals, I have neglected... View Details

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

Shapes Business, Economy & Society (Stanford Business Books, 2021). Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear (University of Chicago Press, 2022) Your feedback to last month’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

View Video Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen (MBA 2019) is accustomed to changing directions. At age fifteen, he moved from his home in Venezuela in the midst of civil and political unrest, seeking safety and opportunity in the United States. He... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Consulting

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