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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
why managers may respond to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results are consistent with the notion that the investor base affects corporate policy choices. Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Alika Phipps
Ratings and Capital Structure Advisory Group, “advising clients on the optimal capital structure to maintain a favorable credit rating. JP Morgan was a great experience. But although I gained a lot of expertise in finance, I was missing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
pleased their clients will be with the results of their audit. Even with Sarbanes-Oxley, we’re still a long way from that. Are there predictable surprises in the queue now that might be preventable? I always tell everyone who will listen... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
the Honeywell/GE merger for the Boston Consulting Group. Rather, she was assigned a client her bosses thought was more befitting a "lady": Mrs. Smith's Pie Company. Even that was a controversial assignment, her superiors fretted, because... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
encountered a political phone vendor was in 1983. He was 26 years old at the time, serving as deputy campaign manager for a gubernatorial candidate in his native Mississippi. A Washington-based consultant came down to pitch the campaign... View Details
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Fereshteh Zeineddin
entrepreneur," she says. Either way, HBS has given her a more powerful way of understanding her priorities. "Being in sales with over one hundred clients and a huge territory, I had thought time View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
infrastructure ITG had constructed to support clients with customized software tools and technical support had grown well beyond sustainable levels. With his management team, Gasser had developed a two-part... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
Linder Photo Courtesy of Accenture Institute As research director at the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business, Jane C. Linder (MBA 1976, DBA 1989) was asked to provide a managing director with new material for a speech on... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
business from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Grenoble in 1992. Following military service, he took a consulting position with Bossard Consultants, a Zurich, Switzerland-based firm that had him working with technology clients... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
a part-time, off-career job in HR for one year. Then, if and when things were under control, she could come back and see clients again. Kara Gruver Though it seemed like a step back career-wise, she took the offer. Why? "You have to... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
first intranet for a Fortune 50 company. “That was my first exposure to the way innovative data management can transform a big organization,” she notes. “When I went on to HBS, that seed had definitely been planted.” After HBS, Gelman... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Jamira Cotton
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? My undergraduate education in engineering shaped my ability to think analytically about solving rigorous problems. Additionally, while serving clients at McKinsey I constantly learned to... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
making decisions to issue millions of dollars of bonds,” she says. Today, Harris is vice chairman of global wealth management and a senior client adviser at Morgan Stanley in New York, which she joined in... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a selection process, supplied funded companies with View Details
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Carlos Coto
interesting. "I moved into a full-time management rotation program and noticed something intriguing," Carlos says. "As a teller, you get to know clients personally; you're aware of major life... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research infrastructure is an important, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
call centers, with their attendant voice response units, need not be frustrating. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology, and internal processes, both the customer and... View Details