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- 28 Feb 2011
- News
Rebooting the Human Condition
Enriquez: Exploring in Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia. The future is so yesterday. It's already here, and everywhere around us. The problem is, most of us just can't see it. Fortunately, the future is on exhibit this week, and Juan Enriquez (MBA '86) will be our... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- News
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
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
those of us from elite eastern prep schools think we did. Mauricio Gonzalez, Class of 1982, Section I, Skydeck. My first job was as a consultant for BCG, for Boston Consulting Group in London. And it was... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
from a local public school, and each adult volunteer was assigned a team of about 7 kids. These groups were tasked with starting and running a company while the adult volunteers would act as consultants to help out when needed, mostly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
an exciting time for opportunity in the logistics industry. “It’s going to raise a lot of questions, none of which are without consequence for the Postal Service,” he says. Through his consulting practice and now as director and strategic... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
is targeting seniors, when 90 percent of today's marketing spend is aimed at people under 50. And he's hedging his bets on something we all think seniors run from—namely, technology. It all came together in 2012, when Johnston and gerontologist/strategy View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
privately held Joh. A. Benckiser SE, which owns Coty, Labelux, and stakes in Reckitt Benckiser and Burger King. He serves as chairman of Coty, the global beauty company and leader in fragrance. He began his career at The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
membership records. He couldn’t find one specializing in record keeping, so he and fellow research assistant, Tom Jones (MBA 1968), offered to serve as consultants and complete the project. That’s how Epsilon Data Management was born in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Meg's World
full-fledged powerhouse, with revenue on track to top $2 billion this year. With more than 28 million active users, eBay dominates the online auction marketplace. Whitman came straight to HBS after graduating from Princeton with a degree in economics. She held six... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- News
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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
some tales, and then ask for tips,” Bines says. The experience taught him that the better you understand your customer, the richer the tips. He has worked in customer-facing businesses ever since, including his current role as managing director at the global View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
counter-productive. The returning soldiers loyalties are suspect. We fear that many serve the Coalition by day and brief the rebels by night. Policy confusion and vacuum undermines confidence. The Coalition purged former apparatchiks, then re-hired them as View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
their workload has increased. But as alumni have come to realize the value of accessing the password-protected parts of the HBS Web site (for mass e-mailing, consulting the directory, or using career services, for example), they have... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
New HBSAA Board Members
'63) Oslo, Norway Senior Partner Hoegh Invest A/S Michael C. Kwee (36th PMD) Hong Kong, China Chairman and CEO PAMA Group Sanford J. Sacks (MBA '66) Scarsdale, New York First Vice President Ambac Assurance Corporation Saquib H. Shirazi (MBA '95) Karachi, Pakistan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Building Your Own Dream Team
generally cover each other’s back. “Once you’ve established a safe place with a group of trusted advisers, you’ll find that you’ll start taking more risks, individually, within your group, and in your company,” writes Ferrazzi, who is CEO of the business management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
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 2010
- News
Alumni Books
compensation consultants who legitimize outrageous pay; accountants and attorneys who see no evil; legal vote buying; and rampant conflicts of interest. They discuss what happened, or failed to happen, in the boardrooms of Lehman... View Details
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