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- 04 Aug 2010
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A Lonely Crusader
We’ve all read stories about those rare individuals who saw the financial crisis coming and profited handsomely from their contrarian insights. Add to that list of contrarians hedge fund manager Bill Ackman (MBA ’92), whose six-year... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
managers that are directly affected by the problem. In such cases, the overriding concern for firms becomes whether to restructure or otherwise change existing arrangements, or to exit the business in question altogether. These are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Feb 2018
- News
Were retail jobs always low wage, with few benefits?
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
share that enthusiasm with a group that is also unlikely to fit the traditional insurance mold: people in their 20s, 30s, and even 40s. Terry, who worked in product management at Liberty Mutual for a dozen years, observes that life used... View Details
- 19 Jul 2020
- News
Remote Work Revolution
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
relationship, whether it’s a provider, a pharmacy, or a patient, involves data, often mobile data on phones.” BlueCross has had to outsource more than 100 of its IT jobs, he adds—not to save money, but because positions can’t be filled from the area’s available View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The short but destructive history of mass layoffs
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included serving as a union View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
Four Ways To Get Your Global Team To Gel
- 29 Nov 2021
- News
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
seminars covering these subjects. Ava Labs itself was the subject of two cases, the most recent one written last year by Shikhar Ghosh, the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration, and Senior... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
home repairs he was having to undertake. Then president of a 115-year-old independent Catholic school for boys, Kennealey had managed construction projects and budgeted for aging buildings’ capital expenses like boilers and HVAC systems;... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
The Ritual Effect
open-plan offices don’t work; why traditional “rain” dances and those annoying and seemingly pointless team-building exercises you manager makes you perform really do work, just in sometimes unexpected ways; and why having a greater... View Details
Keywords: rituals
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
How to Deliver Bad News to Your Employees
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
“I loved learning how capital and labor came together to create things,” she says. That same spirit of discovery would come in handy in York’s career as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with 30 years of experience financing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
when, and why working in a startup is right for you; evaluate the viability of a startup you are considering joining; learn how startup dynamics and rules benefit investors, not employees; negotiate a better job offer and manage... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
responsibility with success, and that is leaving the world better than you found it," says Seth Klarman, who sees giving back as one of the key metrics to consider when gauging success. Another is whether one has created value for others. At Baupost, he says, "We've... View Details
- 23 Jun 2022
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