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24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

School Case 113-073 Ken Traub at American Bank Note Holographics Ken Traub is hired as CFO for American Bank Note Holographics, the market-leading security holograph company, in January 1999, but discovers on his first day that the company has misstated its financials... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

clubs get exclusive access to our corporate sponsors - top investment banks, consulting firms, technology companies, and general management companies - more than one week early. This year, we hosted our first ever virtual Diversity Career... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

because the founders were born entrepreneurs. You might assume that these folks had technical or finance degrees, or worked at fancy consulting firms, or had some other specialized knowledge. Yet that isn’t the case. Entrepreneurship is... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

in a tumultuous environment. One Sip at a Time: Learning to Live in Provence by Keith Van Sickle (MBA 1985) (Dresher Publishing) This memoir tells how the Van Sickles moved to Provence even though they didn’t speak French and had full-time jobs. After quitting their... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

miles south of Kabul previously unknown to cartographers. In the Taliban-influenced south, entering a village to build a cell phone tower was a task to be handled with great tact and cultural sensitivity. Khoja consulted with early Afghan... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

ability to think about more than one thing at a time," says Hodgson, who held positions at Deloitte Consulting and Nextera Interactive before coming to HBS. "There's a balancing act involved between the bottom line and the social mission... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

March 2019
Article

Economics of Converting Renewable Power to Hydrogen

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

The recent sharp decline in the cost of renewable energy suggests that the production of hydrogen from renewable power through a power-to-gas process might become more economical. Here we examine this alternative from the perspective of an investor who considers a... View Details

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01 Mar 2010
News

HBS Grads Make Their Mark in India

Amelio Child Care Founder and CEO Sridevi Raghavan (MBA ’08) Amelio is India’s first on-site child-care services provider. The company helps firms to analyze their employees’ child-care needs and assists clients in opening and managing day-care centers. Founded in... View Details

Keywords: child care; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

19 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future

On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

industry and the firm. A collaborative research paper called "Computer in Your Pocket" was recently published by four of her colleagues, but she was not consulted or asked to contribute. As clients call Bienenstock asking for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

situation; rearranging moves, which reconfigure the assets or the parties or both; and shut-down moves, which prematurely cut off same-side-of-the-table competition. When I was a consultant at McKinsey in the early 1990s, we used the term... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Learn how to launch and scale a successful platform business and compete against others in the same space. "This was an excellent course with concepts that were immediately applicable to my consulting... View Details

09 Jan 2020
News

Your Whole Self

Chinese-American and the Eastern heritage has been a big part of how I've grown up. But truthfully, April, what really made this relevant was about 20 years ago when I came out of HBS class of 1997, I was in my first job in management View Details

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By: Geoffrey G. Jones

I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

and consumer lifestyle products? Philips sent teams of designers, engineers, and consultants into hospitals and clinics to interview patients and a range of providers, from clinicians to administrators and other staff. These teams... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

Firms" presents an overarching framework better suited to such complexity. It identifies the four critical activities for effective PSF leadership: setting strategic direction, securing commitment to this direction, facilitating execution, and setting a personal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

students at the most prestigious schools now shunned traditional management careers altogether in favor of fields like consulting and investment banking. Faculty at the elite business schools were thus educating fewer future managers,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
News

Lighten Up

and Exchange Commission. He also worked in the first Bush administration’s White House. Kim, 40, worked as a strategy consultant at The Parthenon Group, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and the COO of the Shackleton Schools, a high... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

29 Aug 2018
News

The Value of Valleys

would maybe do some consulting but just kind of was like a drift for about two years after that. Then my previous boss reached out and was like, "Hey, do you want to come back?" And, "How about we start something on part-time basis?" That... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

and staying engaged in some way are intrinsic to sustaining both confidence and opportunities. Serving on meaningful nonprofit boards that deal with serious business issues is one good route. Part-time projects and consulting is another.... View Details

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