consulting - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

for example, was a banner year for bad news, with thirty late-stage clinical failures of biotech drugs, he said. The online magazine Signals, which is published by Recombinant Capital, a consulting firm that works on biotechnology... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

decades consulting to major businesses and governments all over the world, had something to say about this. I surveyed 785 companies, start-ups as well as the global giants, on many continents of the world, in collaboration with Inc.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

end-users as the basis for high-speed, digital, interactive, multimedia services." The scenarios, said moderator Scott Bradner, senior technical consultant at Harvard, were not so much predictions as a means to evaluate the next... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

Business School Case 817-103 Catalant: The Future of Work? Catalant, founded in 2013 as an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on consulting projects posted by small- to medium-sized businesses, had expanded by 2016 to provide Fortune... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

(Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2000). Edited by Subir Chowdhury, a consultant and author specializing in quality management, the book pulls together practical and accessible essays by twenty-six leading-edge academics and business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile manufacturers in India, for example, an intervention-involving free, high-quality advice from a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

caring partner is key to making things work. "But I've had to train my spouse," she joked. You have to manage your career for the long-term.—Kara Gruver, Bain Consulting Her advice? You can't be perfect and on top of everything... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

is diverted from their primary mission to perform police work. (d) Minimize the perceived danger that we present to other countries through continuous consultations and through self-imposed limitations on our ambitions. (e) Master the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

problem lies not with the people who serve on boards, but rather the structure of boards themselves, argue Harvard Business School professor Jay Lorsch and consultant Colin B. Carter. In Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

that?' I have found that many people who come into this industry do so for a combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

focusing on trust and reputation mechanisms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51606 Harvard Business School Case 916-033 Advika Consulting Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Human... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

consulted with government officials about national fiscal policy. As a statesman and as a business leader, Odutola worked tirelessly to improve the infrastructure of his country. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

unconventional field settings. Their mission was to produce a DNA sequencing test that was cost effective, robust, and operable in extreme field conditions. After several months of effort, the team in consultation with company experts... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

contact each other through trusted intermediaries on the network to offer or seek jobs, consulting engagements, expertise, and financing. The company had outpaced its competitors by building the most populous online business network, but... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance themselves from seekers who they learn... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

hospitals in smaller cities across India, with a goal to operate 30,000 beds in seven years, which will make it comparable with the world's largest hospital chains. NH operates the world's largest tele-cardiology network, which provides View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material flows, human resource system, processes, etc.) and the challenges that the Dabbawala organization faces in a rapidly changing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Bohmer teaches an MBA course on health-care operations management, codirects the joint MD/MBA program, and serves as faculty chair for two Executive Education programs in health-care delivery. A native of New Zealand, he teaches and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health