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Jamira Cotton
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? My undergraduate education in engineering shaped my ability to think analytically about solving rigorous problems. Additionally, while serving clients at McKinsey I constantly learned to... View Details
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Zach Clayton
"That makes every day exciting." Acting entrepreneurially Zach will broaden his perspectives through a summer internship with McKinsey & Co. in Atlanta where he will participate in a generalist consulting program. Regarding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
French Last Job: Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company, Moscow Age: 26 Why HBS? “My degree is in economics, which was exciting but strictly mathematical and theoretical. I wanted to become a more well-rounded individual and gain a wider... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
commitment there (asking her only to repay its tuition costs plus interest), she worked at McKinsey for two years after graduation. Growing restless, she spent six months backpacking on her own through three continents, an experience that... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 17 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Thinking of Joining a Board? Christiana Smith Shi (MBA 1986) Shares Her Experience
In our Q&A series, we talk with webinar presenters about their current roles, work-life balance and any helpful tips they may have for alumni. Tell us what you've been up to since your time at HBS. I graduated in 1986, so there's a lot of life to summarize, but... View Details
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
they reported that "Without exception, these (resource management) activities are distributed more widely across the organization than is usually imagined posing huge problems where coherence is a central requisite for efficiency and effectiveness." A recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
them "data whisperers") is so acute that it may be years before a sufficient supply can be trained. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that up to 190,000 are needed now in the US, along with 1.5 million managers capable of using... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
graduating from Harvard Business School, Ronnie Cohen made a smooth transition to the high-powered world of McKinsey & Company. Thus, it came as a surprise to his colleagues when he decided to depart two years later to cofound a firm that... View Details
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Ralph Johnson
for you? I’m going to work with McKinsey in Chicago as a generalist. Consulting gives me the flexibility to find where my skills work best and to discover what I’m most interested in. Long-term, I hope I can have an impact on education:... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
The Business of Fashion's philosophy, says Amed, is transparency and inclusion. (Courtesy Imran Amed) It was more happy accident than business plan: Imran Amed (MBA 2002), a former McKinsey consultant, was between jobs in 2007 when he... View Details
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Marc Wilson
plan for launching his own firm, one that has already begun with his summer internship at McKinsey in New York. In a recent "Think & Drink," an informal gathering of HBS colleagues who share wine and ideas, Marc and six... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
Rogers In a self-indulgent moment in his late 20s, Gary Rogers (MBA ’68) bought a Porsche, a flashy status symbol befitting his standing at the time as a well-paid McKinsey consultant. It turned out to be the single most important... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
McKinsey let him put his engineering education to work on large projects, but the experience also demonstrated the need for a formal business education to advance his career. "The HBS story really began when I spent a year at MIT as a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
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Gopesh Mittal
While consulting with McKinsey & Co on industry projects ranging from education to energy utilities in India, Gopesh Mittal discovered a deep interest in one especially important field, health care. “I worked for a health care company... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Aná huac in Mexico City, where he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1973. James G. ("Shay") Garvey (MBA '84) is a partner at Delta Partners, a venture capital firm in Dublin, Ireland. After earning his MBA, he first worked as a consultant for View Details
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Fabian Frick
making; I wanted more of a management role,” says Fabian. A consulting assignment with McKinsey gave him the opportunity to explore strategic digitization projects. “In Germany,” Fabian notes, “we have lots of large, traditional companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
July 2011, after a year-and-a-half at McKinsey and about six months as the cofounder of Dafiti, which he calls a "Zappos clone"—a kind of Brazilian knockoff of the famous American online shoe seller. Olook sells its own brand as well as... View Details
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Thomas Grenier
friend raised 60,000 and climbed Cho-Oyu, which is near Mt. Everest in Tibet. In the summer of 2007, Thomas took a break from his McKinsey consulting position to attempt Gasherbrum IV, a summit that remains unreached. New heights in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Sparking Internet Commerce
college and HBS, Grouf held jobs at McKinsey and at Goldman Sachs, where he worked on M&As for clients in communications and technology. During his second semester at HBS, after hooking up with some software visionaries at MIT, Grouf... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Nov 2010
- News
Commanding Officers
fingers on his left hand and was hospitalized for months. After recuperating, Jefferson earned degrees from the Kennedy School and HBS. He was both a White House and a Fulbright Fellow. He worked in state government in Hawaii and later for View Details