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Ann Chao
different countries and industries to learn with and learn from. As a Social Studies/East Asian Studies concentrator with a strong interest in disability rights and education as well as entertainment and performing arts, I still felt... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media
- 11 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS
times their online databases contain company and industry profiles and access to financial reports. Consult your network Look at your network and see if there are people from your undergrad institution,... View Details
- Profile
Janelle McDonald
people.” Taking a chance, she started consulting with a small firm just outside of Washington DC. From there, Janelle went on to Accenture, where she enjoyed the rush of “working on some of the most challenging business problems every... View Details
- Career Coach
Celia Chen
Having worked at McKinsey for 5 years in fintech and consumer/retail industries and Amazon as a senior product manager responsible for launching a new service, Celia is happy to speak to students interested in any of the fields. She can... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
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Humbulani Dombo
"Even though I wasn't an engineer, I was attracted to this engineering company. I wanted to learn about an industry so crucial to South Africa's history and economy. The whole point of the rotational program was to generate general... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of the factors that drive success in an industry that attracts 65 percent of MBA graduates from leading business schools — many of whom eventually leave to run organizations of their own. With revenues approaching a trillion dollars,... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
"Moonshine Shop," a group of plant-savvy creative generalists, is helping a great industrial company become more innovative. Chronicles the history of the Moonshine Shop, its successes and failures, and describes innovations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS
It is a feeling that is familiar to many of us, the “career switchers”: beginning an MBA program with a keen interest in a different industry, yet not really sure where to start. I had worked in management consulting for three years... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
before and during the MBA program. McKenzie Jones (MBA 2024) Where is your hometown? My hometown is Gainesville, Florida. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Technology, Product Marketing Manager at Google. At what point did you... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
people’s lives.” And he did, first as a consultant to the airline industry and then as chief commercial officer at a low-cost Brazilian airline. But when the company’s IPO was called off and it was sold,... View Details
- 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
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
an engineer at Tesla, where I worked in manufacturing and design engineering. I loved my time there and am proud that I played a small role in helping drive the automotive industry towards electrification. Most importantly, I learned... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
“A place to grow personally and professionally.” - Yolanda Anton
management. This evolution illustrates two of my main characteristics: my very varied interests and the will to progress into management. After ten years of industry experience, I clearly feel the need to add to my career profile, broaden... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
“fashion’s fairy godmother.” It’s easy to remember a time when women didn’t buy high-end fashion online—it was barely a decade ago. Magnúsdóttir watched the birth of the online fashion industry as a retail View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
about their counterpart's inventory levels and warranty coverage, further exacerbating the conflict. Neither side did its due diligence on their mutual perceptions of the real underlying social contract.—Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax, and James K. Sebenius Despite the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Entrepreneurship flourishes in the Bayou
sales. He leads a team dedicated to assisting inexperienced entrepreneurs as well as longtime industry players who “require a new way of thinking about common issues.” The team provides strategic planning, coaching, and mentoring, and... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
Spencer Stuart, directed by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher and management consultant Deborah Bell. The team worked for over a year before that to identify board members from more than 60 countries, in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
counterpart at Honeywell, Michael Bonsignore, were rushing to close the deal (United Technologies was also eager to acquire Honeywell), they "reportedly never held initial consultations with their Brussels lawyers who specialize in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
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Patrick Ferguson
sports analytics consulting group, where he helped professional sports teams identify undervalued players. His next position—as an accounting research assistant at his alma mater—brought these threads together. The senior faculty members... View Details