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- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
small Cambridge consulting firm before coming to HBS. Impressed by the Harvard Community Earning his MBA, he says, was “all I expected it to be and more.” His section experience was particularly meaningful. “I met people from all over the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
shifting sense of priorities. Born in India, he went to boarding school in England and earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Manchester University. After graduating from HBS with distinction, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Web
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
- 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
- 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
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
pursued. Moving forward by taking a step back As an HBS alum, Kloeblen has access to free career coaching through Career and Professional Development. Kloeblen scheduled a phone consultation and prepared to discuss tactical issues such as... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t CrooksWhy Good Audits Go Bad
merely consulting daily foreign exchange rates—many others require interpretations of ambiguous information. Auditors and their clients have considerable leeway, for example, in answering some of the most basic financial questions: What's... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
consulting; and 46 percent of Yale graduates took jobs in financial services and 15 percent took jobs in consulting.13 The boom in jobs in financial services and consulting... 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
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
Still, Penney's pricing plan is risky. "Every day prices will not be as low as the biggest discounts that [the company] once offered," pricing consultant Rafi Mohammed wrote in a recent Harvard Business Review blog. "Instead, its pitch to... View Details
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John H. McArthur | About
committee memberships, and consulting posts in business, government, education, and health care organizations around the world. For many years, he served as chair of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), which sparked a lifelong... View Details
- Web
Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Business Review for “Getting Serious About Diversity” (November–December 2020) with David A. Thomas. Robin J. Ely : Received the 2020 Robert F. Greenhill Service Award for continued outstanding contributions to the HBS community. Robin J.... 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
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
the key risk factors have developed from a pressure to enhance productivity, eliminate waste, remove supply chain duplication, and drive for cost improvement," says William L. Michels, CEO of consulting firm ADR North America, Ann... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- Profile
Jillian Dorans
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? The short answer: I fell in love with hospitality. I'm what you would call a career-switcher. Three years into my management consulting career, I worked on a project for a large hotel... 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
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
overcoming every obstacle that the pandemic presented, to ensure the continuity of the School's work. Every team leaned in--from food service workers to security to technology and administrative support--whether on campus or remote. Their... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
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
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg