Strategy Consulting - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

known, unknown, and potential competitors. In February 2010, Subramanian will publish Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, a book that draws on his experience studying and advising on complex corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2003
News

The Levitt Brand

A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details

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

28 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

B2B Branding: Does it Work?

of the brand among hundreds of thousands of people who may be working for the enterprises to which Accenture consults (or is seeking to consult). And the motivational value of inviting top customers, prospects, and employees to golf... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products

01 Jun 2000
News

Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity

junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of... View Details

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

of a resurgence: HBS Professor Emeritus Michael Beer, in a new book based on a large base of evidence drawn from consulting experience, concludes that “when employees can’t speak truth to power they lose trust in those leaders and become... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham

After ten years of working at McKinsey & Co., where she had become the first female African-American partner, Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89) was ready for a change. "Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

philanthropic consulting portfolio Mbanusi led at MDC, along with his experience founding and leading a city-wide youth organizing initiative focused on educational completion and connection to living wage work opportunities, pointed him... View Details

19 Apr 2017
News

Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

for ways to reinvest in the area. “The announcement of 1871 made me start to think about moving back to Chicago from New York,” said Lakshmi Shenoy (MBA 2010), who last year became the organization’s vice president of strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

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Nim Ravid | MBA

early-stage digital healthcare startups as the Co-Founder and President of the Harvard Undergraduate Behavioral Strategy Group (BSG), a consulting group helping companies overcome the behavioral challenges,... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Noted & Quoted

Michael Porter on health-care reform strategy (New England Journal of Medicine, July 9, 2009). “There are relatively fewer and fewer consumers willing to pay a premium or suffer a deficit in product quality in order to be patriotic and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

June 2025
Teaching Note

AI at QuantumBlack: McKinsey’s Open Source Dilemma

By: Frank Nagle, Sam Boysel and Susan Pinckney

In 2019, QuantumBlack by McKinsey considered releasing Kedro, a proprietary machine learning data pipeline tool as an open source software offering. View Details

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Patrick Chun

engrossed," Patrick says, "with the idea that strategic thinking and business had such a global impact, and where the world is going." Eager to learn more about "how strategy moves," Patrick spent two years with... View Details

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

resources. But for other types of tasks, cultural heterogeneity had no effect on creative performance. The research is relevant to business practitioners because creating a multicultural workplace is often touted as a strategy to foster... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

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Dominic Mensah

Coming to HBS is like... Entering a journey of self-reflection on and immersion in your purpose. It is a courageous leap of faith—a deliberate choice to forgo a “safer” path and confront passion head-on. Before HBS, I balanced a role in View Details

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Venus Miller

have shifted. "Before, I thought I'd do consulting the rest of my life." But she used her summer internship to try something new. "I took advantage of the time to look into education," Venus says about her experience... View Details

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Oral History, Business History and Business Archives in India - Creating Emerging Markets

important corporate archives in India. Vrunda Pathare (Godrej Group) discussed her group’s remarkable oral history program, which has undertaken audio interviews with dozens of present and former staff. These interviews, which can be View Details

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Impact on Research & Curriculum | Baker Library

for what we now think of as the field of strategy.” 2 Corporate strategy became part of the HBS curriculum and research efforts and represented a critical new approach in the management consulting field.... View Details

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Richard Lou

internship, Richard is taking on something new: a strategy consulting role with Deloitte Consulting in New York. "It's a way to cultivate business fundamentals, to learn... View Details

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

success contrast with anecdotes where the diffusion of CRM into organizations continues to be a slow process and/or where CRM implementation outcomes have fallen short of expectations. Successful implementation depends on a number of factors such as fit between a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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