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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
Pincus set up shop, the general impression of private equity matured. SUVIR SUJAN first thought of returning to India when consulting work brought him home in 1999. Since then he's sold a start-up to eBay and recently launched a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
they would need as general managers. The course became a centerpiece of the HBS curriculum, the source of many pioneering case studies, and an inspiration for the next generation of strategy scholars. Its direct impact on practice could be seen subsequently in the work... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
the difference between consulting and finance and marketing and entrepreneurship,” says Polli. Career paths in accounting or consulting, for example, usually correlated to attention to detail and a lack of impulsive behavior, she says;... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions
people who are different from themselves. Examples might include a production supervisor who can rally everyone in an organization, from frontline employees to union leaders to CEOs; or a platoon leader who works with people from a range of academic, economic, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Faculty Q&A: That’s Classic
the Romans, being an emperor is all about contradictions, because they’ve got to be wildly ambitious, almost a lunatic, but they also have to be considerate of and consult their peers and carefully use every segment of Roman society.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
also did some consulting work on the side, helping a local aviation museum with marketing. “I’d spent a year before I left Fluke just making contacts and decided I was ready to leave last summer,” he says. The networking paid off when two... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right by Dal LaMagna (MBA ’70) (Wiley) When LaMagna graduated from HBS, his entrepreneurial activities — including operating discos in drive-in theaters and working with the 1960s musical teen sensations the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
"When men and women across the firm internalize a definition of competence and power that includes women, that makes a difference in retention and advancement." A longitudinal study of the consulting firm Deloitte LLP delves into the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“You are kidding me. I went to Harvard Business School. I’m the reason the microwave tray rotates.” — Actor ALEC BALDWIN as Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock, from the episode “Don Geiss, America and Hope.” “Women are using (an MBA) not only for finance but also to work in... View Details
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- 21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
And I think a lot of us have this expectation: Well, I’m gonna get that consulting job or that finance job out of HBS, do it for a couple years, then I’ll figure out what I want to do. Like yeah that startup job I got an offer, but it... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
are grateful for all we are doing to reconstruct their country,” Senor says. “This is critical not only for the freedom of the Iraqi people, but also for our overall success in the war on terror.” Also serving on the CPA is Thomas C. Foley (MBA ’79), a former McKinsey... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
maximize self-discovery beyond the classroom. “We recruit children every summer for a week-long program of workshops about leadership and empowering change. It’s all volunteer-run,” Rewane says. Upon graduating from Stanford, she took a job with the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
WARM WELCOME: On an unseasonably mild December day, after a reception with faculty, staff, and students, Al Gore and Dean Jay Light walk to Burden Hall. We are managing the planet as if it were a business in liquidation,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore declared to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Leading Questions
teams of consultants who did extensive and time-consuming one-on-one interviews. Synthesis, launched in 2017, aims for a middle ground: a focused but customized evaluation. “We ask ourselves what are the things you need to know right now... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an... View Details
- 18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
Xu’s Twitter handle is @xrayunicorn) “I worked in consulting before medical school and had to travel a lot. One time a colleague and I were stranded in a snowstorm and had to rebook our flights. On the phone with the travel agent, my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
interview. Among their findings: In the 1960s and 1970s, MBAs graduated with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they’d hire an MBA. According to several deans, that’s no longer true. Financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
international consultancy and still travels extensively — for business and pleasure — with his wife of 62 years, Lee. Tell us about a high point of your Bloomingdale’s career. In 1976, the Queen of England visited our New York store. She... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
Sixty nonprofit executives from the Philadelphia area attended the HBS Club of Philadelphia’s fifth annual nonprofit conference in November. The one-day event provided attendees with leading-edge thinking on executing strategy in nonprofit organizations as well as a... View Details