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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

type of board opportunity that interests you Seek out CEOs, board members, organizational leaders, and investors who could be helpful. Then, develop a strategy to connect with them (through industry meetings, informal networks, LinkedIn,... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise April 2013 Article Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance, and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee We examine how organizational structure influences View Details
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2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018) - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
  • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Gap, Inc., 2012

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States
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  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

particularly valued Linklaters’ ability to work on cross-jurisdictional matters. Learning economies. Major strategy consulting firms, such as McKinsey and Boston Consulting... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
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Propose an Independent Project - MBA

North American market, conducting a contribution/break-even analysis of its product lines, and presenting strategic recommendations Working with a nonprofit organization that focuses on expanding access to financial services for low-income families, in exploring and... View Details
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

made its threat credible. This may be more than enough of an incentive for you to decide not to bid after all. As the CEO's strategy illustrates, increasing the costs you will incur by not following through on your threats can persuade... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
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Insights From Harvard Business School’s Peek Program - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

trapped men (enough food for two men for 10 days) combined to make the possibility of rescue appear all but impossible to consulted experts. A mining rescue in the United States just a few years earlier, in which nine men were trapped 240... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

facilitated by Enron's bankers and advisors and largely missed by its board of directors and other watchdogs. Here are some "high level" details: Jeffrey Skilling had begun working with Enron in 1986 as a consultant with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

exposed me to so many fascinating, smart, kind, humble, incredible people with so many different diverse backgrounds.” It was also at HBS that Leahy learned she could utilize her skillset in strategy View Details
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Satisfactory Academic Progress - MBA

assistance or guidance, whether academic or personal, to consult any of the support services at HBS. Seeking assistance at HBS is regarded as a demonstration of maturity, not an admission of personal deficit or failure. The three types of... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

that really differentiate the most effective leaders,” says Opie. Exposing inequities in the workplace Opie uses many of the strategies in the book as a consultant to corporations struggling with racial and... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

world and the business problems they were solving.” After the Chamber, she accepted a consulting position with Deloitte in Washington DC where she “worked in the strategy and analytics practice for public... View Details
  • October 2007
  • Case

The AtekPC Project Management Office

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and John Hupp
Presents one company's efforts to implement a project management organization, or PMO, and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues brought out in the case include defining the PMO's purpose and mission, the structure and governance of the PMO, and how to... View Details
Keywords: Projects; Goals and Objectives; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Consulting Industry
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

was purchased for approximately $1.1B by Ariba, where Mr. Burgstone served as Vice President and co-head of corporate development. He has also worked as a high-tech strategy consultant (semiconductor,... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208102 Monitor's Opportunities in India (A) Harvard Business School Case 708-482 The CEO of a strategy consulting firm must decide which of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

their full promise. And that’s a key piece of information to have as companies consider investing what consulting firm Accenture estimates will be $35 trillion into cognitive technologies in the United States by 2035. Just adding AI tools... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information
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The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details