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Cait Haught
of two or three, consult with nonprofits "whose central mission addresses some aspect of inequality." Oberholzer-Gee and Nien-he Hsieh co-taught the class in the spring of 2016, and the school plans to offer it again next year.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
C. Edmondson : Awarded the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Service by the Teachers College at Columbia University. Kris Johnson Ferreira : "Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift" with Matthew... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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Harvard Business School
Development Center, and advising the student marketing association. In 1965, Fitzhugh moved to Pepsi-Cola, where he led the development of targeted marketing strategies. Fitzhugh consulted with major corporations and helped launch the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
author Alexander Mirza proposes a solution to the human capital challenges faced by service industries amidst unprecedented labor shortages, and technological and geopolitical shifts, and offers a framework for diagnosing the root causes... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Thomas (MBA 2003) Grace Under Fire I was a server for the catering service on my college campus. Working at the banquets hosted by the university president was my favorite because sometimes it meant seeing famous people. One time Stephen... View Details
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Wombi Rose
doing different things for different partners," says Wombi of his FIELD 2 experience. Wombi's assignment was challenging: A local television station wanted to expand its existing online dating service into a mobile application.... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
consultants and eventually founding corporate publicity departments.” 14 The economic strife brought about by the Great Depression in the 1930s instilled a sense of public misgivings about large corporations, while interest in American... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
correlation vs. cause and effect. As commenter Diogenes put it, “Prove with a cogent methodology that racial and gender diversity lead to greater profitability. Prove causation, not correlation (which studies to date primarily by View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
generalized toolkits to business users or get bogged down in custom software consulting engagements that solve nonrepeatable use cases. There are more opportunities today for entrepreneurs to focus on solving vertical problems than... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
the global value chain, and what more might we expect? Laura Alfaro and Ester Faia: In 2012, a survey by the World Economic Forum and [the consulting firm] Accenture, devoted to assess the risk of a disruption in the global supply chain,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- March 2000 (Revised August 2000)
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Ethan Berman at RiskMetrics Group (A)
Ethan Berman, CEO of J.P. Morgan's risk management spinoff, has grown RiskMetrics Group (RMG) from a small team of 30 to a 70-person firm contemplating an IPO. Along the way, the consensus-based decision-making process that he espoused started to prove unwieldy; his... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Style; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Making; Service Industry; Service Industry
Ibarra, Herminia M., and Gillian Morris. "Ethan Berman at RiskMetrics Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 400-066, March 2000. (Revised August 2000.)
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
director of the New York Times Company. Robert F. McDermott (MBA '50) Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force (Retired) Chairman Emeritus, USAA In 1993, after a 25-year tenure at the United Services Automobile Association (USAA), General Robert... View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
payment, how it was detected, and the way the firm responded to the bribe after it was uncovered. To test the hypothesis, Serafeim evaluated data from the forensic services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which provides global View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
responsibilities Foster successful strategy execution by establishing an environment that communicates which opportunities and behaviors are encouraged and which are out of bounds Who Will Benefit Mid-Level Managers and Professionals Aspiring Managers Entrepreneurs and... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
“Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A)” with Marco Di Maggio and Greg Saldutte (HBS Case 218-095). Victoria Ivashina : Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community in 2023. Ishita Sen : Winner... View Details
- 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
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
profit is by selling complementary goods and services. For example, IBM sells consulting services and proprietary software that are complementary to the OS software it develops, and Sun sells complementary... View Details
- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
teaching, and consulting over the past ten years, I have come to understand more deeply than ever that the best managers are those who have an appetite for learning and are willing to work on themselves. Management is very hard; even the... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
in potential employees. "Our primary goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women," he says. If you think it's hard to get into Harvard Business School, consider what it takes to land a job as a consultant at... View Details