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- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
relative to the world at large. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2498737 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-123 Making Progress at IDEO This case focuses on different types of client...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
responsibility to be a fully contributing member of that community.” At the Capital Group, where he spent several post-college years before HBS, Diamond learned about the asset management business and gained valuable sales experience...
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Deborah Blagg
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
To some degree, this has exacerbated the challenge to those responsible for staffing these activities by creating more frequent peaks and valleys in demands for talent. Are there lessons for human resource management in what is being done...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
leaders. Inspired, Kloeblen formed a boutique, “CFO for hire” firm called “C-Street” that built a book of small business clients eager for seasoned financial expertise. Word spread and soon, Kloeblen was leading a small network of...
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Technology
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
RapidVisa to expand the types of cases it can handle.) The company’s online immigration applications function much as TurboTax does for IRS filings, translating the arcane language of government documents into easy-to-answer questions customized for each client. The...
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April White
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
two-year MBA program. Glick's presentation focused on benevolent sexism. Unlike hostile sexism, which is an overt response to a perceived threat to male power, Glick said that benevolent sexism's reinforcement of the male-as-caretaker...
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by Maggie Starvish
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
Emory University, to work at McKinsey & Company. There she was responsible for strategy due diligence and planning for financial services and public sector clients in Africa and the Middle East. “I...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
candidate is being considered. Someone applying for a marketing manager position might be asked to develop a multi-channel pitch and presentation in response to an RFP from a particular brand, for example. “We’re not saying we think this...
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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
Bearing full responsibility for a company's success or failure, but being unable to control most of what will determine it. Having more authority than anyone else in the organization, but being unable to wield it without unhappy...
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- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
past five decades, accountants have changed from watchdogs to advocates and salespersons. Auditing has become one of a number of services, including consulting and tax advice, in which accountants "sell" creative tax avoidance and financing structures....
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- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
finance. By the end of 2016, people were asking about finance.” In response to this constant market demand, Cheney decided to hire a partner with recruiting experience in finance. She met Lesley Finer in the spring of 2016 through a...
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- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
describes the troubling experiences of a young man, Jerry, in his first real job. Jerry sells insurance to the poor on behalf of a large, faceless organization. The insurance he's selling is bogus and he knows it. His impoverished clients...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
public and private regulatory activities. Read the paper: http://www.gcbpp.org/files/EPV/EPV_Short_RobustEnforcement_92012.pdf Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
criteria. They are building all-electric, zero-emissions autonomous cars with the mission of making our cities safer and more sustainable with every ride. The Internship Experience I’m on the Go-To-Market team, which is responsible...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
responsible human being. A standing ovation at the conclusion of his remarks made it clear that in the eyes of his audience, Feurstein had certainly attained that goal. CEO Jon Corzine of Goldman Sachs A farm boy raised in a tiny Midwest...
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James E. Aisner
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
lock, but the company soon expanded its focus to B2B sales in the health care sector. Its clients now include sites responsible for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, which require both security and...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches. It is quite a different approach to participating in the sector. In a way they become the catalysts for internal change. Many alumni get involved with corporate social View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that her team increasingly discounts her deep client expertise while deferring to the senior partner's more generalized...
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Sean Silverthorne