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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
trying to go and be fluid enough to push various buttons along the way to get there.” As far afield and varied as those experiences were, each one brought Mawilmada a step closer to coming home. The war had just ended when he returned to Sri Lanka in late 2009 to... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team-working together and making small, doable changes. What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
now a SVP of Greenlight.com, which recently merged with CarsDirect.com. “It moved quickly from class project to religious quest,” adds Nussey, the former CEO of e-business consulting firm iXL and current president and CEO of Silverpop... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Progress The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Herzlinger was born in Israel and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was eight. She earned a degree in economics from MIT, spent time in Washington as an economist, and worked as a View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
value the respective boards claim will soon become a matter of leadership: How the integration is conceived and led. Having studied and consulted to numerous integration teams, I learned the M&A variant of Murphy's Law: Anything that... View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
to help organizations better access, integrate, and leverage the talents and insights of their employees. An earlier career as an organizational change consultant led me to realize how many thoughtful, caring individuals were stymied in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Alaskan Native communities at the time. A key question that interested Alsan and the researchers at Stanford was whether the representativeness of the study mattered for actual prescribing and use of new medicines. The group consulted... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)
advisor. I leveraged the summer trying out the advisor role through a management consultant internship at McKinsey. In three short months, I learned that the coaching wasn’t my primary color. I get fulfillment being inside the operations... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
sparring with brilliant minds who often challenged my assumptions, I feel ready and eager to enact the change I’ve spent so much time studying. Since graduating, I’ve joined a strategy consulting firm that structures multi-sector... View Details
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
trade-offs between product variety and flexibility. Harvard Business Review Webinar Student Perspective on Entrepreneurial Journey Having worked in consulting and fintech, Peter Gumulia (MBA 2021) of Jakarta, Indonesia, chose to attend... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
providing funds for such a large contract asked Last Mile to give up its community training piece as part of the proposal. In the end, Panjabi turned down that contract, but ended up consulting on community training anyway. “It’s an... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
things. And I've heard all that schlock about how Lou Gerstner was a food company CEO when he took over and saved IBM. But I don't buy it. That was a different company, in a different situation, in a different time. IBM was in the process, then, of becoming a View Details
- 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
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
can win. This means hiring the proper consultants and legal advisors, particularly those who are well versed in the workings of the WTO. The last piece of advice is not really an action plan, rather an issue to recognize and keep in one's... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 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
- 14 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
First-year students participate in a Global Immersion at the end of the second semester. They travel all over the world participating in short-term consulting projects that add value to our global company partners and help students build... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 27 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the PRIDE Club
queers on campus can feel comfortable and supported. It means being yourself. It means having each other's back. It means connecting with each other on a truly human level. Chief Operating Officer, Jacob Meiner Jake came to HBS after three wonderful years at Boston... View Details
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Women Are Avoiding AI. Will Their Careers Suffer? | Working Knowledge
was 10 to 40 percent smaller than the share of men. “When we aggregate them, our best estimate is that there is a 25 percent gap,” says Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration. Only one study—a Boston View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Southern Railroad, Standard Power & Light Corporation, and McKeesport Tin Plate, and as consultant to investment banking firms. Doriot taught Manufacturing for decades. In the early 1940s, however, he suspended his teaching activities to... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
interested Latino professionals prepare themselves to be considered for board positions. The virtual event was the second in a series of webinars offered as part of a coordinated campaign by the two alumni clubs, with consulting help from... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley