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- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
ultimately, it fell short on criteria #3 and #4. After many conversations with fellow classmates and HBS CPD, I decided to recruit for consulting – a career option that I had completely brushed off prior. I realized that working at a... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 20 Nov 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
Building trust is crucial to the relationships fostered by CollaborateUp, the consulting firm founded by Richard Crespin (GMP 4, 1999), yet sometimes it’s tough. When he recently took some skeptical... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
recently as "technology has made it easier to build marketplaces for services and fine-tune the degree of control exerted over service provider-customer interactions." HourlyNerd allows consultants (typically MBA students) to hire... View Details
- 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
- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
When I started my journey at Harvard Business School, I was eager to broaden my business knowledge and strengthen my skills, particularly in marketing and branding. Coming from a liberal arts undergraduate background with limited exposure to business, I began my career... View Details
- Profile
Marie Kyle
Bain & Co. led to an "externship" with The Bridgespan Group, a consultancy founded by a former HBS professor focused on the unique challenges of the nonprofit world. Within months, an interest that had been a sideline at... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business
three consulting firms (a role I never wanted to return to), and the excitement of entrepreneurship. All of a sudden, the family business didn’t seem all that glamourous. It was easy to get lost in the herd... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
want to, and having different levels of understanding is something that will be invaluable in my career. You took advantage of your time at Harvard to intern in both the consulting and venture capital fields. What did you learn from those... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
embarked on a path that would lead him to become a pioneer in database marketing and customer engagement. While working as a research assistant at HBS after graduation, Brierley agreed to help the headquarters of his undergraduate fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, find... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
activist Christopher Reeve, previously had worked in strategy, marketing, and management with several firms that were involved in IT, health care, and life sciences. “In the business world, a lot of what I did was getting people to work... 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
- 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
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Richard Lou
Construction, one of the largest construction firms in New York City. An emotional attachment to business cases With the SoHo hotel project, Richard rose to project manager. "It was a great experience transforming an idea to reality... View Details
- Portrait Project
Emily Hoffman
you care who I am friends with?" Later, my questions were deeper, and often somewhat probing. Things like: "Why does my consulting firm not support my furniture design pursuits?"; "Why do... View Details
- 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
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
by consulting company Accenture, Soltes argues that such codes can be worth quite a lot to companies—but only if they go beyond generic platitudes to create a tool that employees can actually use. Author of the book Why They Do It: Inside... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding