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Gerald Chertavian

his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a financial services firm before cofounding Conduit Communications, a consulting firm focused on the nascent field of Internet... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship; Services

09 Dec 2011
News

Doing Well By Doing Good

Keywords: non-profits; 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 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

important, too: as Houghton once wrote (paraphrasing Justice Learned Hand), “Perhaps the spirit of leadership is the spirit that is not so sure it is right all the time.” —GE Taran Swan Leading from the Middle Swan in 1998 at Nickelodeon Latin America (bottom) and... View Details

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Shantanu Rege

"midlife crisis," Shantanu joined McKinsey & Co. for a year- and a-half, then took a deeper dive into finance. "It was 2008, and a lot of U.S. private-equity firms were expanding in India," he says. "I saw it... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

at the Bridgespan Group, a management consulting firm that works with nonprofits. Competitors and judges alike showed their mettle in quickly adapting to the challenges of an all-online competition. “Even in... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

13 Jul 2016
Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

between companies seeking affordable consultants and millennial MBAs looking for looser, more accommodating working relationships. Rather than fighting the “gig economy,” companies should embrace it. That might mean bringing in some... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2009
News

How to Fix Wall Street

including a renewed commitment to responsible behavior by those individuals and (surviving) firms whose actions created excessive risk in the first place. The crisis is often discussed as purely a technical mishap involving housing... View Details

Keywords: Lynn Paine; 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

05 Nov 2013
News

Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

29 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Finding Professional Purpose: Building an Impactful Career that Reflects your Values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)

undergraduate background with limited exposure to business, I began my career as an Associate Consultant at one of the Big Four accounting firms (PwC), focusing on strategic planning in financial services,... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Delivering Trust

Illustration by Marcos Chin Illustration by Marcos Chin When they married, Deborah and Jake Anderson (MBA 2010) knew that they might have difficulty starting a family due to a preexisting medical condition. They began consulting with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro: Four key themes emerge from an analysis of this struggle between two firms and their governments. The first is how managers can use international organizations, in this case the World Trade Organization, as... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

negative outcomes, or as a rejuvenating experience, with positive post-break consequences. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52074 Harvard Business School Case 316-134 HourlyNerd HourlyNerd, a two-sided marketplace platform for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
News

Stem Cell Man

activist Christopher Reeve, previously had worked in strategy, marketing, and management with several firms that were involved in IT, health care, and life sciences. “In the business world, a lot of what I did was getting people to work... View Details

Keywords: biology; stem cell science; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Mar 2025
News

Patch Work

memory. Since founding Winning Connections in 1997, Jameson has been a pioneer in politicking over telephone lines. It’s work that has made the firm one of the political industry’s leading consultancies, generating $15 million in annual... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Skinner III, head of the Atlanta-based consultancy LCS Partners. The article discusses the importance of understanding your ideal customers; the implications for selling, cost management, growth strategy, and organizational relationships;... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

“where people live, learn, work, and play.” Many firms acknowledge the importance of employee health to their bottom lines, and have also started taking steps to improve their consumer health and environmental health footprints. Target,... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

20 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

paper "The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving," coauthored with Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta. It describes how broadcast search was used with 166 distinct scientific problems from the research laboratories of twenty-six... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

divisions of Big 5 professional service firms to separate themselves from their auditing colleagues in order to enable consultants to take equity positions in their clients' firms. Ilyas Naibov-Aylisli... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Creating Brand Value - Course Catalog

appropriate for: Marketing professionals charged with creating, nurturing, and managing brand value; Entrepreneurs looking to create their own brands in the consumer/retail space; Consumer/retail general managers and consultants engaged... View Details

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