Strategy Consulting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1997
News

After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus

Benson P. ("Ben") Shapiro, the School's former Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, has left full-time teaching at HBS to concentrate on research, writing, public speaking, and consulting. A well-known authority on marketing strategy... View Details

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Bobby Daly

Hospital in Palo Alto. While consulting at the Parthenon Group, Bobby volunteered at a hospice in San Francisco. "My volunteering gave me a lot of patient experience at a young age," says Bobby. "And my work at Parthenon... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details

October 1997 (Revised October 1997)
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Egon Zehnder International (B)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

In 1994, Egon Zehnder faced stagnation in the U.S. market and needed to discuss plans for intiating growth. Due to market demand the firm was not forced to implement options contemplated in 1994 to initiate growth. View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Organizational Structure; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy; Consulting Industry; United States

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01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

anticipate using financial statements to evaluate and pursue opportunities in global commerce and finance. Competing Globally is designed for those who will work as managers, analysts, or consultants to corporations that operate in... View Details

Keywords: curriculum

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Whitney Wilson

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 sector clients.... View Details

30 Sep 2015
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Looking to Rwanda’s Future

sustainable economy.” To date, Goldstein has made eight trips to Rwanda with his wife, Kaia Miller Goldstein, an economic development consultant who serves on Kagame’s Presidential Advisory Council with HBS Professor Michael Porter, a... View Details

10 Jul 2018
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Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

expectations. “I was a strategy consultant before I came to HBS,” says Sarah. “I thought this could be a great opportunity to apply my strategy experience to the role.” After... View Details

24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2001
News

Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change

president, Moret created a new, reorganized student government and lobbied the faculty to place a greater emphasis on teaching quality in granting tenure. After graduating from LSU, Moret remained in Baton Rouge and worked as an environmental View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Apr 2002
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New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network

interview Merrick immediately; both offered him jobs. After graduation, he accepted a position at Parson Group, a Chicago-based consulting firm he learned of through a previous contact. That was then, this is now, but Merrick's approach -... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 2019
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Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber

Stephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Analytics; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; United States; United Kingdom

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17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

for several years before joining Novantas, a start-up consulting firm located in New York. The first eighteen months, she recalled, were "absolutely wonderful. I felt like my mentors at the firm were really excited about the work I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Deal Making in Real Estate - Course Catalog

operations. Educational Objectives Students will learn about a broad spectrum of opportunities to create value through real estate ranging from real estate investment and development to strategies to add value by optimizing corporate real... View Details

09 Jan 2014
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Tapping into Opportunity

SHENKAR by Constantine von Hoffman For many of us, water isn't something we give much thought to. Why should we? Turn on the tap and it's there. If you have to pay your town or city for water, chances are you don't pay very much. Unfortunately, someday in the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Oct 2001
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Q&A: Orin Smith

people-watching, and the general ambience, it was extremely attractive to customers. Also, a key aspect of our strategy is to be preemptive; we get there ahead of the competition, and if we're a little late, we accelerate our development.... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2003
News

The Levitt Brand

A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details