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01 Dec 2011
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At Your Service

Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business (Harvard Business Review... View Details

24 May 2017
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Angie Hicks, MBA 2000

Steakhouse. He thought I could use a break,” says Hicks with a laugh that punctuates much of her conversation. During that summer, Oesterle “quickly saw that she was extraordinary,” he says. Hicks graduated intending to work as a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details

21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

consultant in the energy industry. What’s energy going to look like in 2030? I think about that in terms of megatrends. Urbanization is a megatrend, especially in Asia and Africa. Those areas are not tied into an existing hydrocarbon... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

10 Nov 2020
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In Harmony

After an unsatisfying stint as a consultant at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) developed a new strategic plan for his life with the goal of finding a job at the intersection of business and the... View Details

02 Dec 2018
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An Emphasis on Teamwork

Dan Krebs (MBA 2005) Dan Krebs majored in engineering at MIT, but he was drawn to consulting and private equity after earning his undergraduate degree. “When I applied to HBS,” he notes, “my goal was to get an integrated view of the many... View Details

27 Apr 2017
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Ensuring That Students Can Pursue Their Dreams

operations job at GE to attend HBS. Sergio explains that the Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston Fellowship she received “gave me more flexibility and freedom in the first several years post-HBS to make some riskier decisions.” After graduation and a year working at Boston... View Details

18 Oct 2024
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My Worst Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

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 soon after that conversation. Time - a precious asset in any industry - has... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2012
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High Honors

Profiles & photographs by Susan Young Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989 CARROLL: Discussing safety awards in her London office. Photographs by Susan Young This year's recipients join a distinguished group. Video portrait of this year's honorees. Shortly after she was named... View Details

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01 Jun 2003
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South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

partnership programs that connect alumni with non–profit organizations in need of private–sector expertise on specific consulting projects. Now the HBS Clubs of South Florida and Minnesota have established their own “Community Partners”... View Details

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

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

in 1971, and was named Williston professor later that year. In the years ahead, Crum intends to pursue his interest in international business. "I plan to spend time teaching in Japan and Europe and consulting with international... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Oct 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

Aná huac in Mexico City, where he earned a degree in civil engineering in 1973. James G. ("Shay") Garvey (MBA '84) is a partner at Delta Partners, a venture capital firm in Dublin, Ireland. After earning his MBA, he first worked as a View Details

01 Dec 2000
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Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology

graduate of Harvard Law School and a former consultant in management and negotiation strategy, Price says that HBS is interested in developing "technologically appropriate" approaches that will reach an optimum number of people with... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
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Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center

presence in research and education. Each center is led by an HBS graduate from the region. After earning his doctorate from HBS, Mookerjee worked in consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton and in investments with GE Capital. He then went on... View Details

Keywords: HBS; India Research Center; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business

In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

involved in establishing the modern mutual fund industry and continue in prominent leadership positions today. Much like management consulting and venture capital, it's an industry that really owes its development and success to HBS... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

25 Aug 2022
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Vision: To Go-Go

off the ground? That is exactly what Juan Azuero and Daniela Izquierdo (both MBA 2019) are doing with Foodology, a foodtech startup with operations in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Azuero and Izquierdo both grew up in Bogotá, both worked as View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

Consulting Group. “We are also providing support to people transitioning to the continent by introducing them to others who made the move and by sharing information on what to expect.” YAM has also proven to be an asset for companies that... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

of consulting firm Ethical Ventures, recently spoke to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about the Business of Racial Equity pledge developed to mobilize the business community to address inequality and injustice. Lewin was a coauthor of the pledge,... View Details

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