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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
Buell sprints from the Skydeck, his gray jacket flapping, to add another student idea to the slowly growing list on the chalkboard. The Managing Health Care Delivery Executive Education class is brainstorming ways to improve the customer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
Barr Photo courtesy Poetry Foundation In 2002, pharmaceutical heiress Ruth Lilly made a gift in excess of $100 million to the Modern Poetry Association (now the renamed Poetry Foundation). Tapped in February to figure out what to do with the foundation’s windfall was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
collaboration, and collective ownership of problems. It also inspires teams to think about client management in proactive ways. And you believe it’s possible to take predictable time off without sacrificing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Authored by Assistant Professors Boris Groysberg and Chris Marquis, the case is taught in the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). After just a few days on the job, Keller (MBA ’05) is taken off one project and thrown into another involving... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
her clients keep an even keel by meeting periodically with each one. “I give them a book that I put together especially for them,” she said. “It shows how each manager and the whole account has done; that... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
software producer, ParaGraph International. In just sixteen months he secured stock options for all employees, increased overall revenues by 110 percent, and won over big clients such as Disney, Microsoft, and Apple. When ParaGraph was... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
emerging countries is very encouraging.” The former executive director of the HBS Global Initiative, Wilson is the founder of the consulting firm GV Partners, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her impressive list of clients includes global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
develop alongside the company through our Vendor Management program. Since 2007, Manila Water has generated more than 20,000 jobs through these local enterprises. Similarly, Manila Water gives community-based cooperatives sustainable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Cambridge, for example, she served as a market research consultant, covering the telecommunications industry in Asia. Her strong interest in the region prompted her to seek a summer internship in the Philippines with Monitor Company, the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
have launch capability, with some also doing a brisk business putting satellites into orbit for other nations. (India, for example, has launched more than 40 satellites into orbit for 19 client countries.) READ MORE The New Space Race An... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of these elements drift out of alignment, stars may take their talent and skills elsewhere. And should they leave, experience shows that clients and other stars will often follow. The preeminent challenge, then, for a firm’s senior View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
check all three boxes. And you have to sell to the CEO, CFO, and CIO, as opposed to the VP of development or QA. The VPs have too much turf to protect. —Robert Finzi (MBA 1983) The real crux of the issue is managing those developers. If a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
we’ve seen the most applications to date, but at its heart blitzscaling is a technique for achieving greater speed. Whenever speed is the primary competitive differentiator, these techniques can be helpful. EXCERPT “New types of managers... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
situations. She had participated in negotiations with tough-as-nails CEOs and landed major clients like Nike and Coca-Cola. “But when the doctor threw the chart at me, I was about to cry,” she says. She grew up in Osaka, a merchant city,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Kyruus, a Boston-based firm he cofounded that helps health care systems to manage their provider data and make it easier to connect patients with the right care—steps that ultimately benefit both patients and practitioners. Gardner... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Designing Change
consultant.” It’s easy to see how students would relate to 35-year-old Kahn as he takes on CEO Bill Boyd’s challenge to help revitalize Muzak’s image with clients and its corporate culture on a budget of just $900,000. “Since Muzak’s name... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley where she is responsible for increasing revenue generation and client connectivity and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
In January 2000, Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980) announced that he would step aside as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a position he had held since 1992, and become chairman of The Bridge Group, a new Bain affiliate. Tierney's... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
companies I invest in." Laguë's own desire for active involvement is really what he calls his "entrepreneurship gene" kicking in. "I've always had a bent for the finance side, but I also like to play a strong role in building companies, putting teams together, and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley