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  • June 2016
  • Case

Career at a Crossroad: Akhil and Roopa

By: Noam Wasserman
Akhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but Roopa Rao, his fiancee, is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Green Technology Industry
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  • October 1994 (Revised March 1995)
  • Case

Monitor Company: Personal Leadership on Diversity

Several members of a consulting firm work to develop ways to build and nurture a more diverse work environment while reflecting on personal experiences that help them to become leaders in issues of diversity. View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Organizational Culture; Diversity Characteristics; Consulting Industry
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    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      Sunil Gupta

      Co-Chair, Driving Digital Strategy

      Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and  co-chair of the executive program on Driving... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry
      • July 2021 (Revised February 2022)
      • Case

      Mary Kay Inc.: Enriching Women's Lives while Embracing Change

      By: Elie Ofek, K. Shelette Stewart and Julia Kelley
      In December 2020, Mary Kay Inc. Chief Marketing Officer Sheryl Adkins-Green considered several strategic dilemmas. Founded in 1963 by Mary Kay Ash, Mary Kay was a direct sales company whose Independent Beauty Consultants purchased its beauty and cosmetics products at... View Details
      Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Demographics; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Salesforce Management; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; North and Central America; United States; Europe; Asia; Texas
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      • Research Summary

      Other research activities

      Apart from my dissertation research on the EU ETS, I am interested in topics such as foreign direct investment, global strategy, institutions and sustainability. I am currently working with several faculty members at Harvard Business School on issues ranging from... View Details

      • October 1986 (Revised July 2010)
      • Case

      Karen Leary (A)

      By: Linda A. Hill
      Describes the evolution of the working relationship of Karen Leary, a new manager of a Merrill Lynch retail branch, and Ted Chung, a new financial consultant in the branch. Leary has some concerns about her working relationship with Chung and with his performance.... View Details
      Keywords: Management Style; Employee Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Performance Evaluation; Diversity; Financial Services Industry
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        Rosabeth M. Kanter

        Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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        • November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
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        KFA, Inc.: Building the Future

        By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth M. Adams
        In 2021, Greg Bush, Jr., owner, president, and CEO of KFA, Inc. is working with his leadership team to plan for the future. KFA provides consulting services on software and project management needs for infrastructure projects. Bush and his team have just debuted a new... View Details
        Keywords: Small Business; Communication Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Chicago; United States
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        • Career Coach

        Sarah Hoffner

        industry as well as how to leverage career resources across HBS. She studied Public Health and History at Vanderbilt University and spent six years as a Client Service Lead at Entree Health, a pharmaceutical View Details
        • November 1999 (Revised June 2000)
        • Case

        AGENCY.COM (B): Managing Rapid Growth

        By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
        AGENCY.COM continues on its path of rapid growth, emerging as a leading interactive consulting firm. Its growth leads to new challenges related to the integration of diverse operations and the financing of future growth. View Details
        Keywords: Growth Management; Problems and Challenges; Entrepreneurship; Internet; Consulting Industry
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        • 23 Nov 1999
        • Research & Ideas

        What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

        Some large consulting companies, such as Andersen Consuiting and Ernst & Young, have pursued a codification strategy. Over the last five years, they have developed elaborate ways to codify, store, and reuse knowledge. (See the exhibit... View Details
        Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting
        • March 2017 (Revised October 2018)
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        Catalant: The Future of Work?

        By: Thomas Eisenmann, Jeffrey F. Rayport and Christine Snively
        Catalant, founded in 2013 as an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on consulting projects posted by small- to medium-sized businesses, had expanded by 2016 to provide Fortune 1000 companies with access to over 35,000 independent experts. The founders envisioned... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Recruitment; Labor; Market Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Employment Industry; Employment Industry; United States
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        • April 2000 (Revised March 2015)
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        The First Six Months: Launching a PSF Career

        By: Ashish Nanda, Thomas J. DeLong and Scot H. Landry
        Presents two situations: 1) two graduating MBAs from Harvard Business School compare and contrast their strategies for getting off to a good start in consulting, and 2) a junior consultant has to deal with difficult feedback in his very first performance review. View Details
        Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Planning; Practice; Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Adaptation; Consulting Industry
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        • November 1994
        • Case

        Bain & Company: International Expansion

        By: Michael Y. Yoshino and J. Peter Williamson
        Bain & Co., a leading strategy consulting firm, faces major strategic and organizational issues regarding global expansion. The Bain partners must choose a course among many exciting and attractive opportunities for growth. Also explores organizational and managerial... View Details
        Keywords: Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Decision Making; Organizations; Partners and Partnerships; Consulting Industry
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        • 12 May 2015
        • Blog Post

        "Every Day at HBS is a Gift"

        been like for them. Before coming to HBS Derrick Snyder studied engineering at Vanderbilt and spent a few years working for National Instruments. After graduation Derrick is moving to Austin, TX to join Monitor Deloitte's consulting... View Details
        • February 2009 (Revised February 2012)
        • Case

        Exeter Group, Inc. (A)

        By: Robert G. Eccles, Das Narayandas and Kerry Herman
        Jonathan Kutchins and Mark Cullen, managing partners of IT consulting firm Exeter Group, Inc., are considering four potential client engagements. Three of them involve prominent universities, an area of market strength for the firm, and one involves a top-tier strategy... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Resource Allocation; Market Entry and Exit; Service Operations; Performance Capacity; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Consulting Industry
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        • June 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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        Tim Blanchard at Jones Mendel & Co. (Abridged)

        By: Jay W. Lorsch and John Gabarro
        Tim Blanchard struggles to balance all the demands facing him as a partner of a consulting firm. He must decide how to serve clients, mentor his people, provide strategy and direction to the high-tech group, and spend time with family. View Details
        Keywords: Business or Company Management; Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Management Teams; Consulting Industry
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          Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS)

          Together with Prof. Daniel F. Spulber (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), I edit the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), the leading academic journal on the economics of strategy. JEMS is based at Harvard Business... View Details
          • March 2021 (Revised May 2021)
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          ALDDN: Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria

          By: Meg Rithmire and Debora L. Spar
          In 2020, Ndidi Nwuneli, founder and CEO of Sahel Consulting in Nigeria, faced a thorny set of problems. Her firm partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a large project to develop the local dairy industry as a way to facilitate equitable growth and... View Details
          Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Rural Scope; Growth and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Equality and Inequality; Food and Beverage Industry; Consulting Industry; Nigeria
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