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- 22 Feb 2022
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Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
people’s lives.” And he did, first as a consultant to the airline industry and then as chief commercial officer at a low-cost Brazilian airline. But when the company’s IPO was called off and it was sold, Sadiq took a step that has come to... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
financial returns." She notes that while Lerner "didn't agree, he gave me a nice grade on the project." The paper formed not only her thinking, but became a blueprint for her career. She has spent almost all of it consulting to,... View Details
- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
Xu’s Twitter handle is @xrayunicorn) “I worked in consulting before medical school and had to travel a lot. One time a colleague and I were stranded in a snowstorm and had to rebook our flights. On the phone with the travel agent, my... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
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Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
million last year—discusses how she employed strategies from her years as a consultant to her startup work. “What I really learned from those experiences was how to break down even the most complicated processes into their most minuscule... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
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Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple
military, and consulting settings, Huckman has backed intuition with hard data. In a software services firm, for example, he found that when familiarity increased by 50 percent, defects decreased by 19 percent and deviations from budget... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
Not so long ago, its practitioners were considered a risk-taking breed apart and teaching it was viewed as an academic career-killer. But then entrepreneurship came in from the cold, thanks in large part to a maverick true believer named Howard Stevenson. Issue Focus:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Online Entrepreneur
In September, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce announced that its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year is Diane Hessan (MBA ’77), president and CEO of Communispace Corporation, a firm that helps companies generate customer insights via online communities. The chamber... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
W50 in The Windy City
Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Robin Ely (second from left), with Devi Vallabhaneni (MBA 1997), Molly Baskin (MBA 1977), and Bruce Mumford Jr. (MBA 1980), discussed the W50 and how the School is setting an agenda for accelerating the advancement of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
When author and start-up vet Chris Schroeder (MBA 1992) attended a regional entrepreneurship conference in Dubai in 2010, the energy of the crowd was a revelation. "I could not get my head around the idea that this was coming from places like Mubarak's Egypt—places... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
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Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. He is the author or coauthor of the best-selling books The... View Details
- 28 Jul 2010
- News
Real-World Economics
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
Hobbling Science and Scientists
- 01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
president of the World Bank, and chair of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and Partners HealthCare, in addition to holding numerous consulting posts in business, government, and education. Throughout, as a member of the faculty since... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Nourishing the Next Generation
When Lesley Kohn (MBA 1992) left her position as a management consultant in the tech sector in 2005 to launch Chefables, there weren’t a lot of people talking about improving school food, especially at the preschool level. “In the... View Details
- 30 May 2024
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Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
their day-to-day lives,” says Horgan, the cofounder and CEO of VAL Health, a consulting firm that deploys behavioral economics to create “nudges” in health care to improve health outcomes. “So it was both intellectually interesting and... View Details
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- 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change
unprecedented challenges, she and classmate Amina Edwards (MBA 2020) launched “MBAs Fight COVID-19” to match distressed business owners with students offering pro bono consulting help. “MBAs across the country were eager to pitch in,”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the nation's top View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal
pointed to the dangers of youth football, specifically the cumulative effect of blows to the head (even of subconcussive force) in still-growing children. The Downtown Giants board, at Swearengin’s direction, resolved that it would identify and then View Details