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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
Recommended by Strategy consultant Vivek Ravishanker (MBA 2012) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Knight on the idea that became Nike: “That morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
1985) in getting the bank online. With a deep interest in information technologies and how organizations differ in management practices and structure, Assistant Professor Raffaella Sadun joins the Strategy unit. She earned a Ph.D. in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World - 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
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What is a Career Coach? - 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
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Being a Student Mom 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 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
which represents close to $100 billion in annual consumer sales. A new report from the Grocery Manufacturers Association/Boston Consulting Group cites “click and collect” as one of the “biggest changes ever in the US retail landscape.”... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
which matches consumer demand with sellers' excess inventory -- one of the Internet's big winners. The inspiration of former marketing consultant Jay Walker, Priceline opened for business a little over two years ago. Previously, in 1995,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
Community Solutions
By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn
Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details
Keywords: Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Capital Budgeting; Capital Markets; Country; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Housing; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Poverty; Welfare; Well-being; System; Equality and Inequality; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Florida; Texas
Trelstad, Brian, and Tom Quinn. "Community Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 322-021, September 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
Denmark West (MBA 1998), founding partner of Connectivity Ventures and Culture Shift partner and advisor (photo by Brian Ach) It’s a common scenario: A company wants to increase diversity on its board or in its C-suite, and its high-ranking leaders reach out to a View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and discussion. “The offshoring... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby boomers are coming into their fifties, which is a natural time to start... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
skilled employees for three weeks to non-profit health organizations to provide pro bono consulting and technology services. It focuses on a handful of projects each year selected from an applicant pool of more 100 in 2016. In Durham,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing director at the global View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
section focusing on the startup phase (taught by Professor Patrick Liles) and the other on operational problems and strategies (taught by Professor Dick Dooley). Dooley went on to pioneer the Smaller Company Management Program (now the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Why an MD/MBA from HBS and HMS?
therefore physicians and patients were often frustrated by the design of health care delivery systems. As an aspiring physician, I wanted to understand these conversations. This led me to an internship at a strategy View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
medicine—and in Jarzabek’s passion for it, but, he recalls, “there were a couple of parts missing for me.” Jarzabek was mission-driven, had the analytical and strategy skills a startup needs, but he didn’t have the medical experience and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
What's Trending at HBS?
With the start of the new school year, HBS faculty are preparing several virtual programs for alumni through the Trending@HBS webinar series. In hour-long sessions, they will discuss their research and views on timely business topics, as well as take questions from... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Farrell (MBA '80), Yvonne V. Cliff (MBA '85), Rysia de Ravel (MBA '83), Kathy M. Reilly (MBA '91), and Lan Lan Wang (MBA '78) shared stories and lessons from the trenches about how to launch and sustain an entrepreneurial venture. Karen Page, a one-woman powerhouse who... View Details