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How Equitable Confronted Its Inertia After 160 Years in Business

Cold Call by Harvard Business School by HBR Presents / Brian Kenny

Jan 6, 202634:42Business

In 2019, Equitable’s CEO, Mark Pearson, set out to change how the 163-year-old financial services firm gets work done. He wanted the firm to speed up decision-making and empower employees through a flatter hierarchy, agi...

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How Equitable Confronted Its Inertia After 160 Years in Business is an episode from Cold Call by Harvard Business School by HBR Presents / Brian Kenny. In 2019, Equitable’s CEO, Mark Pearson, set out to change how the 163-year-old financial...

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Published Jan 6, 2026, 34:42 long, audio available.

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