Consulting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
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Community Partners Program Honored for Service to Nonprofits

The HBS clubs' Community Partners program, which provides free consulting services to nonprofits, has received the Volunteer Service Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. Several clubs have strong... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 May 2012
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Finally Finding the Right Fit

moved to Amsterdam for a consulting job with Bain. But that didn’t provide the satisfaction he envisioned. Increasingly, he longed to return to his roots in retailing. “I always dreamed of being in the branding and fashion business,” he... View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2008
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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

Keywords: contests; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

06 Sep 2016
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Horse-Powered Healing

includes experience at Citicorp, Conseco, and the Boston Consulting Group, and, more recently, leadership of an academic research institute. She first became involved in the center as a volunteer strategic consultant, but soon found... View Details

15 Apr 2022
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Funding His Purpose

investments to both nonprofit and for-profit social impact companies. It also offers philanthropic fund management, and it partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide additional services to... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2008
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Highly Energetic

The fourth annual Energy Symposium at HBS in October brought together industry executives, venture capitalists, and consultants to discuss the sector’s challenges and opportunities. Winds of change are turning hearts and minds as well as... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

10 Sep 2020
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Ken Powell Named 2020 HAA Award Recipient

Ken Powell (MBA 1974) Ken Powell (MBA 1974) Executive coach and management consultant Ken Powell (MBA 1974) was one of six Harvard alumni named a recipient of the 2020 HAA Award. The awards are presented annually to recognize alumni for... View Details

24 May 2017
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Angie Hicks, MBA 2000

Steakhouse. He thought I could use a break,” says Hicks with a laugh that punctuates much of her conversation. During that summer, Oesterle “quickly saw that she was extraordinary,” he says. Hicks graduated intending to work as a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2008
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Letters to the Editor

Their Way.” There appears to be a disconnect between the above material and where the Class of 2007 has chosen to work. Once again, two-thirds of the MBA graduates are working in consulting and in the financial services arena. I sense... View Details

Keywords: Charles M. Williams, MBA '39; Lewis J. Kleinrock. MBA '59; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

27 Apr 2017
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Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience

India that provided supplementary education, support for marginalized farmers, and vocational training. He earned an engineering and economics degree in 2011, was a consultant at McKinsey & Company in India, and led commercial operations... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003

Number of Countries Visited: 55 Best Job: assisting refugees in Côte d'Ivoire Founding Member: University of South Carolina's women's soccer team Speaks: French, Spanish, Vietnamese Award Winning: salsa dancer Hero: Maya Angelou Next Up: nonprofit View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Oct 1999
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HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed

is the Community Partners (CP) program of the HBS Association of Northern California. Founded in 1986, CP has involved more than four hundred alumni in providing pro bono consulting services to nearly 130 nonprofit organizations. CP... View Details

10 Nov 2020
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In Harmony

After an unsatisfying stint as a consultant at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) developed a new strategic plan for his life with the goal of finding a job at the intersection of business and the... View Details

02 Dec 2018
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An Emphasis on Teamwork

Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) Dan Krebs majored in engineering at MIT, but he was drawn to consulting and private equity after earning his undergraduate degree. “When I applied to HBS,” he notes, “my goal was to get an integrated view of the many... View Details

27 Apr 2017
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Ensuring That Students Can Pursue Their Dreams

operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston Fellowship she received “gave me more flexibility and freedom in the first several years post-HBS to make some riskier decisions.” After graduation and a year working at Boston... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

partnership programs that connect alumni with non–profit organizations in need of private–sector expertise on specific consulting projects. Now the HBS Clubs of South Florida and Minnesota have established their own “Community Partners”... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
News

Learning to Lead

Many cases discussed by MBAs require students to project themselves into CEO-level situations that could be a number of years away. The opposite is true of “Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC,” which chronicles the dilemmas faced by a junior View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management

01 Sep 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

Stroeer left her job as a consultant in 2015 and converted a van to live out of as she ran, climbed, and hiked through the backcountry, she didn’t plan on turning her lifestyle into a one-woman business. But, she says, “I realized very... View Details