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Juan Pablo Moncayo
Sachs. The perfect transition to a new career path Following the advice of SEO mentors, JP visited HBS in 2007. "I fell in love with the campus," he says. "I thought the case method made sense. Having served on corporate... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 28 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Why I’m Not Changing Careers after Business School
Courses (IFC). Good investing and corporate management requires contextual knowledge and an ability to differentiate among opportunities worldwide – I now feel much more prepared to operate with a truly global perspective. I also feel... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
Advancement and Human-Capital Development By: Chattopadhyay, Shinjinee, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—We develop and test predictions on how early-career challenges arising from the workplace context affect short- and long-term career advancement of individuals.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
of treating the topic of e-commerce with awe and confusion, we can now discuss the subject more objectively." What follows is an excerpt from his new book, Implementing E-commerce Strategies: A Guide to Corporate Success after the... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success. Those who do this most effectively involve their families in work decisions and activities. They also vigilantly manage their own human capital, endeavoring to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her decision to defer the consulting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
it was this belief that everything will be fine because it just has to be fine. Photos courtesy Parul Somani Hanna: Can you tell me a little bit about how that moment evolved into the decision to start Silver Linings? Somani: Since my... View Details
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Ildi Nielsen
Ildi (Dartmouth ’94) offers 20 years of experience as a Career Coach and Executive Search Consultant for MBA and post-MBA professionals. She worked as a Career Coach at Boston Consulting Group where she helped consultants and alumni launch new careers in healthcare,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
vertically integrated,” he notes. “Studios used to be stand-alone companies that were run like fiefdoms. Now they’re run like major corporations answering to shareholders.” Skyrocketing fees for star actors coupled with the high marketing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Professors Lorsch, Palepu, Kanter, Healy, Koehn, and Hall. Spangler Center, Fall 2002. Photography by Webb Chappell. With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
your bearings or deviating from your beliefs and values. Because they know your life story, they are able to perceive how prior events in your life or your motivations may be influencing your decisions today. In addition, in your group... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
reinsurers may one day cease to exist in their current form, reinsurance will go on.) They should also act more like risk-taking investors and less like risk-averse corporations, their capital fluctuating "with people's decisions... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
to the researchers, successful digital economists share three broad skill sets: the ability to assess and interpret empirical relationships and work with data; the ability to understand and design markets and incentives, taking into account the information environment... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
of the challenges they would be encountering,” Elberse says. “People facing these portfolio decisions do what feels right to them. But when you analyze their strategies, you often see mistakes. We’re trying to prevent participants from... View Details
- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
influenced your decision to go into consulting and then to join ClimaCell? My summer months at HBS were spent with McKinsey & Company in the Boston office. My challenge there was exactly what I was looking for: applying technological... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
There's a famous line from the movie The Godfather, which is often repeated in corporate settings: "This is business, not personal." Ironically, though, that statement is actually bad business advice. During the Consortium for Operational... View Details
- 08 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries
into their negotiating approach. It's a lesson many companies have learned the hard way. And influence on negotiations need not be driven by an informal, underlying power structure, as U.S. Stone Container Corporation learned. While... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
financial models for the big banks, I was trying to figure out where I fit in. Optimizing operations through a consulting project seemed right up my alley, but I didn’t want to spend my energy helping corporations exceed their bottom... View Details
- March 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Clara Wu Tsai and Brooklyn Loan Innovation
Philanthropist Clara Wu Tsai is committed to racial equity and investing in Brooklyn-based minority business owners. In the wake of the George Floyd murder, she decides to create a new initiative called the Social Justice Fund and commit an initial $50 million over 10... View Details