CONSULTING Firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be allowed to run for office in local... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910009-PDF-ENG Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. EcclesHarvard Business School Case 410-056 Eden McCallum pioneered the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
News

Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

require listed firms to have a majority of independent directors and mandate compensation committees to be entirely composed of outside directors. The exchanges also require firms to get shareholder approval... View Details

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

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

management consulting field were Bruce D. Henderson (MBA '41) of the Boston Consulting Group, John Diebold (MBA '51) of the Diebold Group, and Richard Vancil (MBA '55) of The MAC Group. Another venerable... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone

and then worked at a computer consulting firm in Boston. When the firm closed during the recession of the early 1970s, her boss steered her toward an MBA, and Rapone, ever... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

Profile

Ann Lucena

Consulting Group, a small consulting firm that helps hospitals negotiate with insurance companies. "It was eye-opening," she says. "I got an insider's... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

Organizational Behavior Over the past four years, Sheila Lirio Marcelo's alarm has rung at 4:00 most mornings, rousing her to start her day as a student at both Harvard's Business and Law Schools, a part-time consultant in Cambridge, and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2012
News

Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards

managing director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, were awarded first place for their January–February 2011 article “Creating Shared Value.” The article lays out the concept of shared value, which focuses on the connections between... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Jun 2001
News

But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)

interests weren’t swamped.” In 1999, the plant’s first shipment of LNG left for Boston. Cabot recently sold all its LNG-related business for a handsome sum. Shearer has moved on to new challenges at Poten & Partners, a New York ship-brokerage and View Details

Keywords: Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Jan 2010
News

Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949

founded Marvin Traub Associates, a diversified consulting firm specializing in retailing, brand, and real estate development focusing on international markets. His client base includes companies in 12... View Details

Career Coach

Yiwei Zhao

consulting. Prior to her MBA, Yiwei spent six years in the Silicon Valley immersed in the technology ecosystem. She first worked at a boutique consulting firm providing strategic recommendations for big tech... View Details

Profile

Marc Wilson

nationwide, even globally. My goal now is to have an education-strategy consulting firm that advises schools and governments on the best ways to influence young students to pursue engineering and... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

18 May 2011
News

U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

Profile

Andrew Boudreau

Andy heard a campus speaker talk about the 2+2 program for college students interested in the HBS MBA. Andy applied, got in, and spent the next two years expanding his work experience, first with a consulting View Details

Student-Profile

Patrick Ferguson

sports analytics consulting group, where he helped professional sports teams identify undervalued players. His next position—as an accounting research assistant at his alma mater—brought these threads together. The senior faculty members... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney

right set of experiences." One such item on Romney's résumé was his successful turnaround of the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

the highest levels of the executive search business. In response, Kelly had begun making strategic investments in firms offering technology-based solutions, but had not yet made significant progress convincing Heidrick's search View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

leading cause of failure in startups. This book offers solutions. Purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundation-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691149135/ The Organization of Firms Across Countries... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

organizations that really ends up with no trend line” “For decades, we’ve been in this cycle where an organization hires a consulting firm to help design and execute a restructuring, and then, as soon as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 May 2019
News

Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1967 Born, Mexico City 1990 Receives Gold and Silver Medals, Rowing, Central American Games 1991 Earns BS, Economics, Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) 1995 Earns MBA 1995 Joins Accion International,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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