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- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found that just 1 percent were Black;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
"changes in firm performance account for only 4 percent of the variance in CEO pay." That said, to what extent can you really argue that a CEO can affect the stock price of a company? There may be some connection, but the state... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
That’s why Community Partners has become so popular. We’re providing $2.5 million in pro bono consulting a year. That’s having a significant impact on our region.” The city of San Francisco has been a major beneficiary of the program in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
profitable into their value chain.” The firm has certified supply chains in Thailand and Indonesia, which are among the worst contributors of plastic ocean debris, and plans to expand into other parts of Asia and Latin America soon.... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
the founders made personal loans to the brand to launch a vanilla shake, which made Sneakz a more legitimate contender in the consumer products space, Philp says. For a longer term capital solution, they ultimately connected with a private investment View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Ross to write the paper "Performance Pricing in Tough Times." Shapiro, an authority on marketing strategy and sales management, is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Ross is a former McKinsey View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
value the respective boards claim will soon become a matter of leadership: How the integration is conceived and led. Having studied and consulted to numerous integration teams, I learned the M&A variant of Murphy's Law: Anything that... View Details
- 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
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
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 Advisors. "I also learned to work with scientists. They're brilliant,... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
isn't grounded in the data in the case, the instructor is trained to crucify her right on the spot. And so we exalt the virtues of data-driven decision making. And then many of the students go to work for consulting View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
concessions company and building it into Boston Culinary Group, of which he is chairman and CEO. The firm does business in forty states, supplying food and drink to arenas and convention centers and operating theaters, ski resorts, and... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
MBA 1974 STAMPS: At home in Coconut Grove. Roe Stamps took a significant risk when he left a successful career at one of Boston’s leading venture capital firms to launch his own company. Together with a longtime colleague, in 1984 he... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
“Distinguished Scholar” honored for leadership on top of academic excellence; and a BS in Electronic Engineering from ESPOL in Ecuador. Dr. Condo also works as an independent consultant in strategic planning and global strategy for View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
that?' I have found that many people who come into this industry do so for a combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
hire roughly two-thirds of all graduates from top-ranked MBA programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar asked a partner at a top View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
side. I ended up being an accounting major.” Jones worked for a year after graduation for Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) before heading to Harvard Law School. “I never planned to be in business long-term, but I looked at it as an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
program,” he says, “every $516 places a vet in a job.” Goldenberg’s path to the Endowment began in 2008 when he was working at the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. As the financial crisis hit that year, he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
company in Boston, I was recruited by another speech recognition firm in Silicon Valley. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to take the job given the noncompete agreement I had signed in Boston, but I was nonetheless able to make the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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