Strategy Consulting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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School of Hard Knocks

Illustration by Richard Downs, Theispot.com When I was in sixth grade, I used to spend recess hiding under a truck in a garage at school. One of the few Caucasian students enrolled in what was my "neighborhood" school—on a Native American reservation in northern... View Details

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

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

competencies, and shifting customer needs Who Will Benefit Service Organization Leaders Professionals in Service Functions Entrepreneurs and Consultants Elevate your employees and create the conditions for them to thrive and deliver... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes

with the ungainly conglomerates assembled in the 1960s and 1970s that provided a variety of seemingly mismatched products and services. And while many consultants and investors are seeking to extend this focused model into emerging... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2003
News

Books

Jay Lorsch and the Boston Consulting Group’s Colin Carter (MBA ’71) argue that corporate boards have made progress in the last decade, but are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties, given their structure, processes, and membership.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2007
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A Juicy Story

Yoffie, noting that the case is used as part of the MBA required curriculum in the Strategy course and in numerous Executive Education programs. It can also be taught with a video presentation by John Sculley, Apple’s CEO from 1985 to... View Details

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

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Sustainability in CPG and Retail

Background readings Consulting firm reports McKinsey: Direct Google search for the firm's reports on sustainability and packaging (e.g., Sustainability in packaging: Inside the Minds of US Consumers. October 2020). Working... View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

innovation strategy as a pyramid: big bets at the top, a few projects in development in the middle, and a broad base of continuous improvements, incremental contributions, and early-stage new ideas at the bottom. For example, Verizon... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

for several years before joining Novantas, a start-up consulting firm located in New York. The first eighteen months, she recalled, were "absolutely wonderful. I felt like my mentors at the firm were really excited about the work I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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In The Community | About

than 7,200 hours in Pro Bono consulting through the HBS Association of Boston Community Action Partners (CAP) and CAP Brainstorms 25 MBA students in the Consulting for Impact Club engaged with 6 local... View Details

November 1995 (Revised August 1996)
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Colliers International Property Consultants, Inc.: Organizational Integration

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Organizational Design; Integration; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry

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Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs

What resources should I consult for my course work for Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs? Begin your research with the resources suggested... View Details

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

company should not have entered in the first place. The example we use in the book is Nokia. Consultants from a leading strategy consulting firm had recommended that Nokia... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Charles Ellis | Baker Library

Charles Ellis MBA 1963, Greenwich Associates Play Video duration: 1:08:49 Charles “Charley” Ellis, HBS 1963. Interview conducted on October 2001 Charles “Charley” Ellis, HBS 1963, founded Greenwich Associates, a strategy View Details

07 Feb 2018
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Helping Startups Give Back

Canadians.” Formerly a business strategy consultant at Monitor Group and marketing VP at Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund, since 2011 Goldstein has been working as an independent View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Faculty Books

essential relationship, including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expectations, and tactics for negotiating priorities. The Adventures of an IT... View Details

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

01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing View Details

September 2019
Case

Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber

Stephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Analytics; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; United States; United Kingdom