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- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The... View Details
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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog
and introductory only. This course goes deeper. Grounded in the understanding that relationships are paramount to success as an advisor, this course priorities the client relationship, in addition to how to View Details
- Web
Meet the Team | Information Technology
Grocery Store, and Chobani. Before joining HBS, she ran a successful video production and media management company for many years, serving a range of corporate, nonprofit, and educational clients. Ruth also has a background in journalism,... View Details
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
The HBS Executive Education course Leading Professional Service Firms (LPSF) is an intensive, one-week program that focuses on management issues unique to these firms. It provides a forum for participants from around the world to apply... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
set of relationships between audit committees and a very small group of firms who serve them be disrupted in useful ways? What do you think? Original Article Consider this scenario: Acme Corp., the large, long-term client of a Big Four... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
five-year stint in Boston as partner and senior managing director at AEW Capital Management. In 1999, Lewis moved to London to launch AEW Europe, a real estate investment business that grew to 18 billion in assets under View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
they were trying to use it for things we hadn’t expected them to,” Medina recalls. The software also lacked the guardrails necessary to prevent a user from accidentally deleting important records. One day, a client called with exactly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
clients on e-commerce, supply chain, delivery, and global postal transformation. Here, he fields your questions about what the emerging race to your front door means for the future of last-mile delivery. Will 3D printing do to the Postal... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
the face of a new competitive threat. HBR published comments from four management gurus on what DataClear should do. (See Close Up.) Now it's your turn. We have included an excerpt of the case and a summary of the consultants' advice. But... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
strategy, corporate venture and innovation groups; (2) as strategy consults who will serve clients in these roles; (3) in private equity portfolio companies, as an operator. This class is also geared towards students who are interested in... View Details
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
listening to their concerns. The response she received at Princeton Review and at PresenceLearning was overwhelmingly positive. Most of the staff at PresenceLearning, as in much of the education sector, already consisted of women, and their View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
pure credibility. She has a career built on this. Authenticity is really important in the social impact world because so many companies are just now trying to capitalize on the space as it becomes ‘hot’.” As Managing Director of Social... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
leadership position in the Northeast through the strategic use of new technology, marketing savvy, and a management style that encouraged staff to invest themselves in their work. In 1996, BayBanks merged with Bank of Boston to form... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
Cultural differences can influence business negotiations in significant and unexpected ways, as many a hapless dealmaker has learned. In some cases, it's a matter of ignorance or blatant disrespect, as with the American salesman who presented a potential Saudi Arabian... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
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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 discovered a pathway to economic... View Details
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Rachel Honeth
clients got dedicated teams," says Rachel. "I reviewed accounts, keywords, and other initiatives for large, interactive agencies." Preparation and support at every turn Rachel noticed something interesting at Google:... View Details
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Luciana Baigun
online platform for the economics community at the school – so she built one. Later, as an auction theory analyst with clients all over the world, she was struck by the ubiquity of mobile phones in India and how they allowed farmers to... View Details
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Akshay Ghulati
U.S." Seeking the skills he would need as an entrepreneur, Akshay decided to get an MBA. "You can get finance and accounting skills just about anywhere," he says. "But I wanted to acquire a more holistic, global viewpoint and to develop new View Details