Consulting Firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

and suppliers in its fast-growing market, and to facilitate possible acquisitions. Prior to jointly founding IWA, the three had worked in management consulting and investment banking: each, however, did have substantial experience with... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

28 Jun 2024
News

Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their... View Details

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

Partners, a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational change and strategy. Covers how Keller initially struggles with his assignment and ends with a question of whether or not he should attend a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events

feature prominent business and financial leaders; the Community Partners program, which provides pro bono management consulting to New York-area nonprofits; and financial aid for students entering HBS. An example of one of the club's many... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Books: Judo Strategy

Netscape research was documented in Competing on Internet Time, an earlier book by Yoffie and MIT colleague Michael A. Cusumano, and inspired Yoffie to pursue the concept further. After tracking references to judo in the management literature and View Details

Keywords: Microsoft; Netscape; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

regulations. We then interviewed partners leading the climate change practices at major management consulting firms including Deloitte, Bain, and McKinsey, the latter resulting in one of our most listened-to... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

1980 to found Delta Consulting, a firm that merged with Mercer Consulting in 2000. Now vice chairman of Marsh & McLennan, Mercer’s parent company, Nadler continues his engagement with academia through his... View Details

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

13 Apr 2017
News

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 Feb 2002
News

Springboard Boosts Funding Prospects for Women Entrepreneurs

According to a recent study by the venture capital research firm VentureOne, even in average economic times, women CEOs typically receive just 6 percent of the $69 billion available in venture capital in the United States. In an effort to... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

Plan Contest taught me how to ground a good idea in the reality of industry by talking to as many people as possible. That was a very good discipline that I still apply,” says Machiels, a partner at private equity firm Pegasus Capital... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; 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

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog

should appeal to students who want to work as part of senior leadership teams, particularly finance executives; as strategy consultants or investment bankers who advise organizations; or as private equity, public equity, venture capital,... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Crash Pad

When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

27 Jul 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

that facilitates video consultations with mental health professionals. With its general access and minimal click approach, Bloomup is the low-barrier solution for all concerns, especially those due to the COVID-19 crisis. Peter Le (MBA... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion

focused on the phenomenon of bankruptcy. A consultant to or board member of numerous corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies over the years, Hayes expressed his aversion to Chapter 11 proceedings for companies trying... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

quickly bring new ideas to market," Kanter says. Steven C. Wheelwright, MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration and chairman of the MBA Program, who works with a variety of firms in areas such as innovation, renewal,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details