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- 01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
tasks typically associated with common consulting projects, Karim Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration and cofounder and chair of the Institute; Assistant Professor Edward McFowland III; and their... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Post for Palepu
Professor Krishna Palepu, senior associate dean for International Development at HBS, has been tapped by Harvard President Drew Faust to be her senior adviser for global strategy, a new position. Consulting with colleagues from across the... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Company, Consultant 1983 Named Partner, Bain & Company 1987 Named Managing Partner of San Francisco office, Bain & Company 1992 Named President, Bain & Company 1993 Named Worldwide Managing Director, Bain & Company 1999 Cofounds The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Students Win Energy Competition
were given 36 hours to analyze a case about how a mid-tier oil and gas company should respond to federal mandates requiring ethanol-blended gasoline. Each team presented its conclusions to, and was questioned by, a panel of executives from prominent energy and View Details
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
have stepped up to provide free coaching to 500 small businesses in the Greater New York region. “We’d been offering alumni community service opportunities within HBSCNY for about 30 years—exclusively in the form of pro bono consulting... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
million last year—discusses how she employed strategies from her years as a consultant to her startup work. “What I really learned from those experiences was how to break down even the most complicated processes into their most minuscule... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- News
Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
military, and consulting settings, Huckman has backed intuition with hard data. In a software services firm, for example, he found that when familiarity increased by 50 percent, defects decreased by 19 percent and deviations from budget... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Nourishing the Next Generation
When Lesley Kohn (MBA 1992) left her position as a management consultant in the tech sector in 2005 to launch Chefables, there weren’t a lot of people talking about improving school food, especially at the preschool level. “In the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on short-term... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
Karisimbi Partners, a three-person private consulting group that works with small- to mid-sized enterprises. “The idea behind Karisimbi’s model is that sustained economic growth in Rwanda requires private enterprise, reform, and direct... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff 2011 Launches MGM Consulting 2012 Appointed Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton 17th Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen believes in the power of leadership. He thinks that the best... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The Art and Science of Teaching
Doug Lemov (MBA ’04), a charter-schools consultant and managing director of True North Public Schools, a network of schools in upstate New York, is a former teacher, principal, and charter-school founder. After years of trying to analyze... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director
leaders in their respective fields,” said Williams, who has spent most of his career in East Asia, most recently as a private consultant in China. In addition, he has served as the first foreign president of a Chinese commercial bank at... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
Management consulting doesn’t lend itself to a balanced diet. Always on the go for her projects at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) would grab whatever packaged food appeared healthiest to her. For a long time, she sought low-calorie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
company-sponsored programs to help employees and their families with personal needs ranging from substance-abuse counseling, to childcare, to elder care. Three months after leaving her advertising job, she landed a position as sales manager at Work/Family Directions,... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
copresident of the African American Student Union (AASU), as a panel chair at the 1999 HBS Entrepreneurship Conference, and as a member of the Finance and Management Consulting clubs. She has also worked with the Admissions Office and the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 02 Nov 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
“It’s taken up much of my life for the last 18 years, and it’s one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever done,” said Clifford, who also ran his own consulting firm and served on the board of the American Museum of Natural History in New... View Details