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Podcast - Business & Environment

also offers insights on career opportunities at the intersection of business, climate, and government. BCG Global Chair Rich Lesser: How Businesses Can be “Bold and Pragmatic” on Climate Change 23 OCT 2024 | Climate Rising Rich Lesser, Global Chair of Boston View Details

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Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

semester and January break, he participated in HBS's Start Up Bootcamp program, in which he worked with three HBS peers to launch a new line of children's clothing made from sustainable merino wool. "The marrying of fashion with... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consulting

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

corporate leaders about the purpose of and means for change. In effect these two approaches to organizational change represent theories in use by senior executives and the consultants and academics who advise them. By "theory in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Health helps doctors select the healthiest embryo(s) for assisted reproductive therapy. Darza Yazan Halwani, MBA 2020 Business Track Runner-Up DARZA is a new e-commerce fashion brand that provides the best online shopping View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

current picture of the CPG business. CGT Consumer Goods Technology A collection of news, articles, featured content, sponsored events. A mission of being the intersection of business and technology in the global consumer goods community. Subscription required. Business... View Details

22 May 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

angel investor in fashion tech; Vanessa Kay, senior vice president at Moët Hennessy USA, who heads up the Veuve Clicquot, Krug, and Ruinart champagne brands; Edda Gudmundsdottir, a fashion designer and style... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

of any business that it wished. This proved to be an illusion, but it was one widely shared within the business world at the time. Diversification was the fashion of the moment, which managers were constantly under pressure to follow from... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

which the directors toured a newly-created "beauty park" in the US, where companies cooperating to create and manufacture new fashion beauty products are located together in one light industrial park. It is a reflection of colleagues Gary... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

26 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

The Office of Strategy Management

surrounding the success that organizations have in executing strategy is low. Our article, "The Office of Strategy Management," using data from a Bain Consulting study, notes that seven out of eight companies in a global sample... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

requirement of passing a standard exam before being admitted to practice, nor are senior managers, investment bankers, or consultants required to participate in continuing education. There is no explicit obligation, for example, for... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

get a startup successfully off the ground in the electronic economy. Venture Capital as a Commodity "We definitely see a major shift occurring in the venture capital community," said Corey, who co-founded the Web consulting firm... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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Carolin Oldenbuettel

Carolin Oldenbuettel has deep interests in art and languages, but has focused her career aspirations on business. “Business administration is a very international skill,” she says, “and I’ve always wanted to work internationally.” Drawn to View Details

Keywords: Consulting

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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Alex Nelson

solve complex problems and meet people's needs — I could do more effectively as a business person." Finding meaningful roles After just over two and a half years with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where Alex worked on a variety of... View Details

22 Jan 2018
Blog Post

"Luxury, Technology, Integration"

back at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in New York, focusing on luxury and fashion projects. The YNAP experience has solidified my foundations to understand the underpinnings of luxury and digital. View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

new business models to decrease its dependence on fundraising. Shilla became Director of Strategy, Venture Group, which served as “an internal consulting group” to a portfolio of businesses including fashion... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

and hospitality industries. At HBS, Karch was a quick study. "I didn't know the basic language, but I found I had an aptitude for business," recalls the straightforward, confident Karch, whose downtown Atlanta office is filled with souvenirs from View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

25 Jul 2016
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Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS

It is a feeling that is familiar to many of us, the “career switchers”: beginning an MBA program with a keen interest in a different industry, yet not really sure where to start. I had worked in management consulting for three years... View Details

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