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- 01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
that distinguish top performance." What matters to Egon Zehnder? Sure, the founder of one of the world's largest executive search firms believes that new hires must possess piercing intellectual skills and résumés that ring with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
and also adjusted for the size of the package, so per-unit (e.g., per-ounce) prices really didn’t increase much for a long time. What we’re finding instead is that firms were producing products at a lower cost. Overall, markups on these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
department at a Woolworth store back when they had manual cash registers. Candy bars used to sell really quickly, and the department needed constant restocking. During lunch, hundreds of customers would come in to buy snacks, and the lines grew long, so I needed to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
own emissions based on their spending data they could be spending less or more in any given month, so people who emit less might pay as little as $10 a month. For instance, students who have lower credit card purchases or people who have... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
racial disparities in wealth and income. And because homeownership is one of the principal ways in which families build wealth, housing, race, and economic inequality are all intertwined. It is no accident, for instance, that data from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
most of his career in travel and in private equity. In 2019, the private equity firm HGGC acquired Monotype for $825 million and recruited Chacko in 2021 to run it. At Monotype, he learned to view type differently—and he also helped the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and declining print advertising revenue. That was the firm foundation upon which local newspapers were built, so that pressure on the traditional sources of revenue has obviously put pressure on the rest of the business—and particularly... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
is highlighted in her new book: Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream. KEY THEMES Small business is critical to the American economy. Artificial intelligence and big data will transform financial services, particularly small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
positions—the supervisors, sales representatives, data analysts, and production managers, for example—tend to be less engaged in their work, have higher rates of turnover, and have lower levels of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
build great companies, and Zensar's success is a visible result." He knows employees personally, and adapts his style to suit their individual needs, but still expects a high level of performance. As Zensar has acquired View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
Large consumer banks have historically collected a lot of data on their customers, which they have used to sell standardized products. Increasingly, however, we have seen new entrants using customer data to... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
billions in return. “Mark epitomizes courage and intensity and isn’t afraid to be wrong,” Breyer said. “And he also made the decision in 2008 to hire Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) . The combination of Mark and Sheryl is the single best team at a senior View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences debuted the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), an online certificate offering for executives focused on quantitative analysis and data science. A few months later, the first... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation committee chairs from fifty of the sample's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
Alberto Cavallo’s paper, “The International Price of Remote Work.” Using a data set from 2019 to 2021 from one of the largest web platforms, Cavallo and coauthors Agostina Brinatti, Javier Cravino, and Andres Drenik found that a country’s... View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman
August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
WASSERMAN: Shining the light of data on entrepreneurial ventures in order to chart the terrain founders will face when they set out to pursue their dreams. Watch Professor Wasserman explain key insights from his book, Founders Dilemmas... View Details