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22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels... View Details

22 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

lies in finding the sweet spot between these two undesirable outcomes, and determining how compensation can motivate salespeople best. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Chung and several executives from the consulting View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Interviewing - Alumni

interviewer's shoes. Think about what might concern the interviewer about you and what you can do for the company. Have several good questions to ask the interviewer. Be sensitive to cultural differences if you are interviewing with a View Details

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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Boston Consulting Group Trends Over Time Managing Distance Broadband Subscriptions per 100 People Trends Over Time Corporations Carrefour: Countries of Operation Trends Over Time Corporations Coca-Cola: Countries with Bottlers Trends Over... View Details

15 Feb 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

communications, and social impact consulting firm specializing in corporate, entertainment, brand, and nonprofit sectors. When I was first hired, I was an assistant to one of the company's founders and CEOs,... View Details

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Greenhill House | About

(1890-1970), US treasury secretary under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957. An attorney from Michigan, Humphrey became a leader in the American steel industry as the president of the M.A. Hanna Company and consulted with... View Details

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage climate tech start-ups that reduce CO2 emissions by at least 2.5 Gt by 2050. The $110M fund focuses on early-stage companies commercializing novel technologies and innovating business... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Events - Business History

seminar, Professor Richard Whittington from University of Oxford’s Said Business School reported on findings from interviews with corporate strategists and consultants at leading firms such as General... View Details

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

firms do that already. "These results seem to make a lot of sense to organizations like The Boston Consulting Group or McKinsey & Company, which deliberately use very different structures for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply learning is a process whereby... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

then settled in New York and joined the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore for a short stint until a high school friend convinced him to consult on a project in their home country. “Serendipity works in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Apr 2023
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

while working as consultants at Bain & Company in 2018. Alcohol alternative with a social mission Considered one of the first cannabis beverage firms, Cann has sold more than 10 million cans of low-calorie flavored seltzer infused... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

25 Feb 2015
HBS Seminar

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design

20 Oct 2015
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What to Expect Your First Year at HBS

cases per day, each 10-60 pages in length. Not only do you have to read the case, but you also need to prepare answers for discussion group questions. In parallel, you will be working on your consulting project in an emerging market (as... View Details

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie's book A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations: An Analysis of a Social Interaction System (ILR Press, 1991). The head of a manufacturing firm was preparing to initiate talks with the leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

July 2023
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Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer

The founders of Dutch professional services firm Schuberg Philis, and the new leadership team entrusted with the day-to-day management, must set the path forward in 2019. The company has grown into a €70 million revenue strong IT provider with top ranks in the... View Details

Keywords: Management Succession; Growth Management; Change Management; Transformation; Mission and Purpose; Leadership; Leading Change; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

President & CEO, Ceres Curtis D. Ravenel , Senior Advisor, Co-Chair and Vice-Chair, Glasgow Alliance for Net Zero Eric Usher , Head, UNEP Finance Initiative Typically, we think of firms as being in perpetual competition with each other.... View Details

18 Jun 2024
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Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

She launched the nonprofit consulting practice at the Parthenon Group. Then in 2010, her friend Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who had built Social Finance UK with David Blood (MBA 1985), was looking to expand the organization. “Tracy had... View Details