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- April 1998
- Case
Jim Lyons and GenRad
Lyons, currently CEO of Harry Gray Associates, a consulting and investment firm, had just been approached by an executive recruiter representing GenRad, a 78-year-old electronics company headquartered in Concord, MA. The company, which manufactured integrated software... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
Zschau, Ed, and Matt Verlinden. "Jim Lyons and GenRad." Harvard Business School Case 698-095, April 1998.
- 01 Nov 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
consultants who provide advice on changing an organization’s culture generally estimate that the chances of success are low, typically one in three or four attempts. Those odds aren’t encouraging. But what isn’t clear in those statistics... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- August 2017 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Christopher Payton
This case provides a platform for discussing mental health and depression in entrepreneurship. Why do entrepreneurs have more mental health issues than other professions? What can an entrepreneur do if they face a situation where their mental well-being is being... View Details
Ghosh, Shikhar, Thomas R. Eisenmann, and Christopher Payton. "Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables." Harvard Business School Case 818-047, August 2017. (Revised November 2021.)
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Help - Alumni
Current qualifying programs include: Advanced Management Program (AMP) Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) General Management Program (GMP) Joint Program with Harvard John A. Paulson School of... View Details
- April 2006
- Article
Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company
By: Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels
When the Swedish Life Insurers Förenade Liv found themselves in difficulties in a rapidly changing market, their response was to call in the consultants. And one of the consultant's first suggestions was to use the Value Network, not the Value Chain, as a new... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Fluctuation; Networks; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value; Quality; Decision Making; Market Transactions; Performance Effectiveness; Customers; Insurance Industry; Sweden
Fjeldstad, Øystein D., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company." Long Range Planning 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 109–131.
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Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Cases View a list of published and in-progress case studies about how companies around the world create shared value. Current cases include Discovery Limited, Dow, and more. Read about CSV cases CSV in Practice Learn how the nonprofit View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar | About
worked with many corporations on consulting and field-based projects. He was honored by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as the Public Company Director for 2020. He is a member of the American Accounting Association... View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
organizations?" Others saw limited potential in the concept. As Edward Hare put it, "There are some people capable of managing themselves in a larger organization but many who can't This strikes me as another of those 'ideas'... View Details
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
Meet a Need for Obesity Care Re: Jon M. Jachimowicz 23 Jul 2024 Transforming the Workplace for People with Disabilities Re: Lakshmi Ramarajan 09 Jul 2024 Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to View Details
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Connect with Clubs - Recruiting
ldsa@studentclubs.hbs.edu Management Consulting Club Co-Presidents Jess Williams jwilliams@mba2026.hbs.edu Jane Lee janlee@mba2026.hbs.edu Khadija Shahab kshahab@mba2026.hbs.edu Shutaro Hayashihara... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
Click to watch. David Fubini has never been a CEO of a major corporation, but during his 34-year career as a senior director at consulting firm McKinsey, he had ample opportunity to work closely with and observe CEOs and leaders of all... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Nov 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation
Keywords: by Claudine Gartenberg & Julie Wulf
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
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Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
execution as the instructor moves through time from pre-class arrival, to the opening, through sequences of questioning, listening, and responding, to transitions and, ultimately, to the closing of the class. Discussion Management... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
rigor it deserved. The more time I spent in the social sector, the more I recognized that robust applications of strategy, financial analysis, and enterprise management were underrepresented in the field. After surveying potential... View Details
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care
six months. He held roles at Deloitte Consulting and Solazyme and an MS in biotechnology from Northwestern University. Executive Fellow Peter Barrett, PhD Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School In addition to his work at HBS, Peter... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career
His research comes at a time when an increasing number of people report being worn out on the job, with 43 percent of middle managers reporting burnout in the US and 70 percent of C-suite workers considering quitting to search for jobs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Celia Chen
Having worked at McKinsey for 5 years in fintech and consumer/retail industries and Amazon as a senior product manager responsible for launching a new service, Celia is happy to speak to students interested in any of the fields. She can... View Details
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Function 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Business Development 5% 6% 7% 6% 8% Consulting 26% 25% 26% 26% 18% Finance 32% 33% 33% 33% 38% Corporate Finance 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% Investment Banking / Sales & Trading 3% 4% 3% 3% 5% Investment View Details