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Ryann Noe

says Ryann. “A light went off in my head, and I realized that this was a field where I could merge these two halves of myself.” In between Williams and HBS, Ryann spent four years working in economic consulting and research in New York... View Details

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

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza

producing, and music marketing learning from her brother’s expertise. Regarding setting the go-to-market strategy for her music, Mendoza took advantage of her experience leading projects. She said, “I applied my View Details

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

of Inclusive Growth Strategies, written with George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Eduardo Tugendhat, Director of Thought Leadership at the international social impact View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

September 2019
Case

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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03 Jun 2014
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HourlyNerd Inks Deal to Expand Client Base in Middle East, Africa

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

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Education Sector Opportunities 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

01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs

out of the way. What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World's Greatest Professional Firms by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Having devoted a 50-year career to consulting with and studying professional firms around the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Professional Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

of the inner workings of the firm, fires the CEO but appoints an acting CEO while a talent consultant is hired to begin a search for a replacement. Given the natural bias of the search firm and the board's recent bitter experience, the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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Inessa Lurye

Before graduate school, Inessa Lurye, through consulting work at McKinsey, helped the Harlem Children's Zone nearly double the number of children it served. She worked with the Washington DC's mayor's office to reduce street homelessness... View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and... View Details

08 May 2019
Blog Post

Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent

a variety of dynamic, in-demand work engagements). But many times, the greatest ideas arise out of opportunity. And often, the best businesses are created to address a market gap. In this case, it was both. Cheney had spent six years post HBS working in View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Learning to Lead

Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a junior View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

bookmakers interact? Will Betfair.com naturally come to dominate the industry, and if so how should the bookmakers react? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709417 Boston Teacher Residency: Developing a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

help the committee avoid dwelling on the difficulties of the work and emphasize instead the opportunities. The focus should be on the big picture: Conversations about IT strategy are hard and can be discouraging if the committee gets... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan

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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) Course Number 1789 Professor Tatiana Sandino Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits NOTE: Because there is considerable overlap between this course (SSV, #1789) and the spring course Strategy... View Details

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

01 Sep 2007
News

Got Global?

reconstruction. We talked at length by phone about his new book, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (see story). For Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993), the solutions he sought were less elusive (see story). The founder and chairman of Satyam Computer... View Details

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

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