Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

For example, lower income shoppers appear willing to pay more now to hedge future costs. Lower income shoppers are also willing to pay more for categories that they see as an investment in their careers and future income. Is the category a hedge, an investment with a greater benefit payoff or a cost to be managed?

Retail 15

Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But portfolio careers aren’t only for stay-at-home parents looking to freelance a few hours a day while their kids are in school or grad students moonlighting as Uber drivers and Task Rabbits. Here are five reasons it can make a dramatic difference for your career. Hedge against uncertainty. Gary John Norman/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Which means that all of us, no matter where we are in our careers or what sort of work we do, have to reflect on the kind of workplace that works for us. Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

Health Care 15

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

For some, the path forward is clear: the math experts will be snapped up by hedge funds, the software engineers will have their pick of start-ups, and elite investment banks and consultancies will duke it out for the top MBAs. Career planning Education Job search' Fourteen years ago, that was me.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? A probabilistic HR manager will examine the data about where a company’s best people come from and how they perform throughout their career to identify new sources of talent that may have been overlooked. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

As anyone with the slightest interest in the consulting business knows by now, the SEC has brought civil charges against Rajat Gupta in the Galleon insider-trading case. Indeed, his lawyer says the ex-consultant lost millions on an investment with Raj Rajaratnam, the central figure in the case.) from 1994 to 2003. billion to $3.4

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. He then mapped out the network of who consulted with whom. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors. Assign these contacts into key categories: Most-senior clients. Most-senior people in your company. lawyers, accountants).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In my 36-year career, I haven’t met a single person truly at the top end of the talent distribution who is highly motivated by compensation. A top consultant, one of the firm’s 15 or so global account managers, approached me to ask for paternity leave (a benefit that’s now fairly standard, but 20-odd years ago was rare).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

This “2+1 Rule” pertains for every career stage, from entry level to executive. You want it to be diversified, and you want to keep adding to it, or it won’t be an adequate hedge,” she counsels. But now more than ever, diversification is the key to career survival. Career planning Managing yourself Networking'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. came home from her job as a diversity consultant at JP Morgan Chase.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

For example, we foresee professional service firms, such as accounting, law, and consulting, using increasingly complex artificial intelligence models to perform audits, analyze legal parameters, and provide management consulting services.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

the management consultancy. In the meantime, Mitt Romney's Republican opponents seem to be backpedaling on their criticism of his Bain Capital career, in service to the principle that free-market capitalism trumps any petty intramural disputes. The PE firm then goes looking for a business it judges underperforming.

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