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Field Course: Investing for Impact

power, and demographics. See also, Where can I find U.S. demographic information broken out by ethnic group? Industry and Market Research Databases: BCC Research - Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

author detailing his current four-year journey through all 54 African countries at Africa54.com "Consumers will acquire a greater appreciation of targeted, personal marketing. A growing number of advertisers will embrace online marketing View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Government; Information; Retail Trade

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor. Far from being a "neutral View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Technology

26 Jul 2016
News

HourlyNerd Rebrands as an Enterprise Talent Platform

HourlyNerd, the red-hot freelance business-talent consultancy launched at HBS by classmates Rob Biederman, Patrick Petitti, and Peter Maglathlin (all MBA 2014), has unveiled a new identity and name, Catalant—“a combination of catalyst,... View Details

01 Mar 2015
News

The Next Big Swing

play at home As the sport began to increasingly rely on the kind of data projections that drove his game, the Boston Red Sox brought on Tippett as a consultant in 2003, eventually promoting him to director of baseball information... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Clark; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

for example, was a banner year for bad news, with thirty late-stage clinical failures of biotech drugs, he said. The online magazine Signals, which is published by Recombinant Capital, a consulting firm that works on biotechnology... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology; Technology; Technology

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

09 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Career Choices for the Class of 2017

The Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2017 data is now live! We are excited about the many different choices our graduates have made for their first position after business school - our students joined 360 different organizations this year. The biggest concentration... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

IBM. But the program also has granted thousands of visas to India-based technology services companies that have US entities, including Infosys, Wipro, and Tata Consultancy Services. As with any controversial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

01 Sep 2012
News

Curb Your Smartphone Habit

Review Press), Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, describes an experiment she conducted (with Jessica Porter) at the Boston Consulting Group, where teams of supercharged professionals collaborated to reclaim precious... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

07 Oct 2014
News

Network Effect

Henry McCance, founder (left), and Tim Armour, President & CEO, of Cure Alzheimer's Fund Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

16 May 2017
Blog Post

Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering

We caught up with Andrea Coravos (HBS 2017) after a Q&A she did with the MBA Voices blog during her second year at HBS. Coravos reflects on her time at HBS and how she transitioned into digital health and engineering following a career in healthcare View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

Profile

Matt Thurmond

Warren Buffett himself. Creating a decision-making habit After college, Matt accrued equity research, analysis, and consulting responsibilities along a path that began as an investment analyst at Zacks and concluded with... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

products were that easy. It's not, as is made abundantly clear by authors Scott Anthony (MBA 2001) and David Duncan, a Harvard PhD, both of management consultancy Innosight. Their point: Success over time requires continual innovation,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Jun 2004
News

The Sky’s the Limit

diversified technology company. For Hamilton, this marked the electronics-testing industry’s transition to mature market status — an unwelcome development. “I was bored,” he says. “It was time for a change.” “I said to myself, ‘I’m done... View Details

Keywords: Seattle Avionics; Transportation; Air Transportation; Transportation

Career Coach

Suzie Rubin

an MBA from Kellogg and a BS in Zoology from Duke University.Work Experience: Medtronic: product management and marketing. Genentech: marketing. U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment: science and View Details

Keywords: Health Care

01 Dec 2013
News

A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash

electronics thrown away globally every year into a sustainable source of metals for the technologies of tomorrow. BlueOak represents just the sort of fresh thinking that has marked Bradoo's relatively short but notable career path. At age... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; recycling; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

July 2023
Supplement

Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance (B)

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer

Three years into their “Ambition” growth plan, in 2022, the management team of Dutch professional service firm Schuberg Philis is taking stock. The global COVID-19 pandemic and other headwinds required adjustments to their growth targets, but they believe that their... View Details