Technology Consulting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle

members, Epsilon engineered many of the ‘customer relationship' techniques that make today's customer loyalty programs so successful," says Brierley, who served as Epsilon's president and CEO for its first ten years. In 1980, serving as the sole outside View Details

Keywords: Charles M. Williams; Epsilon Data Management; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 1998
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Value Added

perspective - like that of his 5,000 McKinsey colleagues - extends far beyond the immediate horizon. One of the world's premier management consulting firms, McKinsey conducts business from 80 offices in 37 countries, with almost half of... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Jun 2015
News

Fast Forward

welfare,” Desai noted. Middle-Skills Gap Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller worked with consulting firm Accenture and workforce analytics company Burning Glass Technologies to produce a report highlighting the ways... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records,... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

03 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Energy & Environment Club

by the technological innovation happening in the climate space, and curious about how we can bring them to market to drive down global emissions. Our MissionThe mission of the E&E Club is to empower and support our members dive into... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Innovation as P&G’s Key

CHARAN: Drawing on his global consulting experience. LAFLEY: Customers are “the boss.” Photo courtesy Proctor & Gamble What does it take to delight low-income Mexican buyers of sanitary pads? The answer is not a punch line to a poor joke;... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

March 2020
Article

Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details

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27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but his fiancée is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2013
News

Oscar Winners

Post-Gazette (September 4, 2013), a customer's online account presents "a Facebook-style timeline of your interactions with doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, and so on. Clicking one icon will refill your prescription. Click another and you are connected with a... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance; Health, Social Assistance

July 2000
Background Note

Industry Transformation

By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin

One of the steepest challenges a strategist faces is to navigate his or her company through a period of industry transformation--an era of rapid and wholesale changes in industry structure. This note considers how periods of transformation typically unfold. It then... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry

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05 Jun 2018
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Fueling the Future

and marketing director to head of innovation. After years at Covanta, a waste-to-energy business, she now runs Fueled for Growth, an energy consulting company, while devoting her personal energies to helping women and girls find—and... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

elevates that perspective to the next level,” she shared. Schoonbeek was also eager to gain more experience as an operator at a startup company to supplement her experience as a consultant working with large businesses. Specifically, she... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

01 Dec 2006
News

Over 50 and Job Hunting?

that their age had disqualified them for positions already. While acknowledging the existence of stereotypes that portray older managers as less creative, energetic, or knowledgeable than younger job candidates, Pam Lassiter, principal of Boston-based Lassiter View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; job hunting

01 Sep 2011
News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. Boston and San Francisco Global investment management firm Alan Greenshields (MBA 1992) Fortu Holding AG Basel, Switzerland Proprietary technologies for next-generation rechargeable batteries Michael... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

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

If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs

out of the way. What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World's Greatest Professional Firms by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Having devoted a 50-year career to consulting with and studying professional firms around the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Professional Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2007
News

Back from the Brink

MILLS: Sometimes when the bottom falls out of the bottom line, the only place to go is up. Harold Mills (MBA ’98) is CEO of ZeroChaos, an IT staffing and human- resources outsourcing firm based in Orlando, Florida. With some $365 million in sales, it competes with the... View Details

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

01 Aug 2001
News

Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

while for those in the industry, it is virtually synonymous with Goldberg himself. Recognized as the father of research and scholarship in the field, he is the author, coauthor, or editor of 23 books, more than 100 articles, and some 1,000 cases on the subject. He has... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Agriculture; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2012
News

Health Care’s New Frontier

consultants in the managed care practice of Booz Allen Hamilton, acquired an obstetrics practice in San Diego with $1.6 million in seed capital. The concept of a clinic where midwives and nurses provided quality care for healthy women... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

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Jennifer Hurford

London, Frankfurt and Cairo, where she helped consumer brands and healthcare companies arrange short term financing for their suppliers, and at IDEO, a design consulting firm in which she designed new business applications for bitcoin and... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

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