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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 an initial phone screening, Sarah visited Citadel in New York... View Details

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Pranav Kothari

rugby." New conceptions of business After two years as a consultant and another two as a venture capitalist, Pranav found a renewed interest in his family business, but with an entrepreneurial twist. "I see an opportunity for us... View Details

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Matthew Mariner

enjoyed talking to entrepreneurs, and I often took the lead in discussions. However, often I wished I was on the other side of the table. I knew that working five to ten years in private equity wouldn't get me there; I needed a different set of skills." A... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Business School ... HBS Student Club Spotlight: Consulting for Impact Andrea Frederick Francie Alexandre 25 Oct 2018 This year, we will be highlighting the work of social enterprise related student clubs at HBS. In... PMNO Perspectives:... View Details

25 Mar 2016
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New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad

Company’s Dallas office, where he had worked from 2008 to 2011, including a stint in Stockholm. As a manager at Bain, Losee has led consulting teams in client engagements across multiple industries. He graduated in 2008 from the Honors... View Details

16 Mar 2022
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Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

Division I college basketball player at St. John’s University. He then pivoted his career path into investment banking, corporate strategy, and management consulting before circling back to the game he loves. Now at MSG, Laitsas is... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes

market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real value.” The author and coauthor of a number of books and many... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Thank you for inviting me to testify before you. My name is Alnoor Ebrahim, and I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a Principal of the Hauser Center For Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. I have worked as a View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

catch-22 situation for supporters. Antidotes were offered to offset the negative perceptions that have arisen from some efforts to deregulate industry. First, consultant Rebecca Lula suggested that a more balanced approach to deregulation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Philipp Schäelli

strongly shaped by my path towards discovering what I wanted to do professionally. I came to HBS after my experience in Consulting knowing that I wanted to work more closely with people who were running businesses and that I wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services

05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

with a PhD after completing my masters at the London School of Economics. From London, I moved to New York and worked in consulting at Deloitte, and then to San Francisco to join a mid-market private equity firm, Kingfish Group. I’ve... View Details

Keywords: Technology

28 May 2019
News

Leading Questions

teams of consultants who did extensive and time-consuming one-on-one interviews. Synthesis, launched in 2017, aims for a middle ground: a focused but customized evaluation. “We ask ourselves what are the things you need to know right now... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2016
News

Ink

Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an... View Details

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

government turns out to be different from that in the United States. It shows that big business emerged as a constructive player in environmental policy in the 1960s, when it persuaded the government to establish a joint research institute known as the IVL and a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

Ernst & Young, or McKinsey should all get a shot at becoming candidates to run cities and districts with a history of corruption. Entities that are experts at municipal accounting, consulting to foreign governments, or providing... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

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Ann Chao

fulfilling career. It was not easy to change direction, especially from a traditional business path like consulting to a very nontraditional path like entertainment/media. But the many career panels, career coaches, alumni and classmates... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

11 Apr 2016
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What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS

times their online databases contain company and industry profiles and access to financial reports. Consult your network Look at your network and see if there are people from your undergrad institution, previous professional experience,... View Details

14 May 2024
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Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of InGenia Uruguay, an outsourcing and strategic consultancy services company based in Montevideo. Established in 2003, InGenia specializes in risk management for Uruguay’s financial sector.... View Details

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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

own or manage a small business, provide consulting or financial services to these businesses, or invest in smaller businesses. These smaller businesses are privately owned, are typically led by a CEO/entrepreneur supported by a very small... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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A Passion for Education

of his life. “I learned so much and made lifelong friends,” says Ryan, also giving the School credit for helping launch his career, which included working as a McKinsey consultant and a vice president at Citibank before spending a decade... View Details

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