CONSULTING Firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

Profile

Terrance McGuire

through those experiences were as powerful as the courses themselves,&rdquo he said. During the summer after his first year, McGuire worked at ARD, the iconic venture capital firm founded in the 1940s by famed HBS professor Georges... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Faculty Research Online

consumers prefer single songs over music “bundles.” The result? It is time for the industry to rethink its products and prices, writes Associate Professor Anita Elberse. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6312.html. India Transformed? Insights from the 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

Web

Charles Ellis | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) Charles “Charley” Ellis, HBS 1963, founded Greenwich Associates, a strategy consulting firm focusing on financial institutions, in 1972. The firm’s clients include commercial banks,... View Details

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

25 Aug 2014
News

Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

consulting firm focused on the nascent field of Internet marketing. He spent several years building Conduit into one of Europe’s fastest-growing technology companies, eventually counting 130 employees around... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Jul 2017
News

Making Friends with Mother Nature

consulting giant McKinsey & Company, who coauthored the book The Winning Performance: How America’s High-Growth Midsize Companies Succeed. (Editor's note: Mr. Clifford passed away in August 2017.) “I long ago decided that the world has... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

Quaxar.com, an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm based in Miami, took a different approach to the matter of start-up capital. Leonel Azuela (MBA 2000), managing partner of Quaxar, explains that "we... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; 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

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

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

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

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

in manufacturing,” says Eckert. A 2015 report by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute found that 2 million of the nearly 3.5 million anticipated open manufacturing jobs in the United States in the next decade will go unfilled. Europe has a similar problem, with... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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

Web

Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

Career Focus This course is appropriate for students interested in pursuing careers in any management function (e.g., operations, marketing, finance) in firms that make, sell and/or distribute physical products, or in organizations (e.g.,... View Details

03 Jan 2017
News

Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child

Heather Staker (MBA 2001) is president of Ready to Blend, a firm that works with K-12 teachers to combine educational technology solutions with classroom instruction to accelerate children’s ability to learn and achieve. In this... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

prominent LBO firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice -- as well as $10,000 in cash and in-kind professional services worth $10,000. The judges for the final competition included a number of HBS graduates and represented an array of top venture... View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

Profile

Akshay Ghulati

his summer internship, Akshay will join the Parthenon Group in London to consult in private equity firms as they conduct due diligence. "As a potential entrepreneur – one of my long-term goals – I want... View Details

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’

easy to separate from the day-to-day management of a firm. All a leader would have to do is figure it out once, or hire a consulting firm to figure it out, and make sure it's brilliant. If this were so, the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great potential to make a global... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

dot-com boom, we’ve all seen that you can be an outrageously successful CEO while still in your twenties.” In his current role as CEO of the Los Angeles–based consulting firm Big Answers, Diamond helps... View Details

Publications