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09 Nov 2023
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Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

facilitated by Enron's bankers and advisors and largely missed by its board of directors and other watchdogs. Here are some "high level" details: Jeffrey Skilling had begun working with Enron in 1986 as a consultant with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

managerial practices explain this variation in productivity? A randomized evaluation of the introduction of a mobile-phone based agricultural consulting service, "Avaaj Otalo (AO)" to cotton farmers in Gujarat, India, reveals... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

tools and databases available for finding startups and doing background research. Attend one of Baker Library’s sessions, and schedule a Baker Research Consultation session. Set up a 1:1 session with a CPD startup-focused Career Coach and... View Details

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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

organizational structure, and performance management and control. Participants also take part in peer consultations, small-group consultative sessions in which they address critical challenges facing their organizations. Limited... View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

School that provides a forum for exploring the synergies between all sectors to address critical social issues worldwide. Consulting for Impact Club The Consulting for Impact Club (CFI) matches Harvard MBA... View Details

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

development policies for family employees. Family compensation. Succession process, including retirement ages. Ownership, including buy-sell agreements. Dividends. Because each of these topics, except ownership, are clearly business policy areas, the family council... View Details

Rowan Clarke

Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School in the Strategy Unit. He researches entrepreneurship and technology/AI for economic development and social impact. His work assists small business entrepreneurs, and high-growth technology... View Details

Keywords: management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting; management consulting

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Adrian Obleton

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I originally applied to HBS as part of the 2+2 program. I had already accepted a full-time role in consulting that would give me the technical skills I needed in my career. I knew that... View Details

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Careers Blog

purpose-driven career and redefining success after a family health challenge. [...] Read more 03 Jun 2025 Alumni Career Video | Lindsay Muller (MBA 2024) tag Alumni Career Videos Lindsay Muller (MBA 2024) reflects on the impact of career coaching in her pivot from... View Details

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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA Leslie Perlow Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) Ryan Raffaelli Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (also listed under Strategy)... View Details

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

but also through informal get-togethers. For instance, employees at one consulting company started a book club that focused on black writers and coordinated visits to African American museums and historical sites. And when American... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

March 2025
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Metaphysic AI: Rethinking the Value of Human Expertise

By: Zoë B. Cullen, Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

In early 2025, Thomas Graham, CEO of Metaphysic, a leading AI generative video company confronted fundamental questions about who should control digital identity in a world where AI could perfectly recreate human likeness. Founded in 2021, Metaphysic first rose to fame... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Ethics; AI and Machine Learning; Intellectual Property; Rights; Negotiation; Value; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Technology Industry

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18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

plan. Consulting firms and media outlets have conducted surveys and interviews about return-to-office policies and future work. Leaders should leverage easily accessible data to understand their employees better. Second, employees want... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

didn’t plan out a career in beauty. Instead, she tested out different hypotheses and followed her curiosity. Some early stops in her career included internships at Merrill Lynch and Putnam, consideration of joining Teach for America or law school, and then ultimately... View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

corporate leaders about the purpose of and means for change. In effect these two approaches to organizational change represent theories in use by senior executives and the consultants and academics who advise them. By "theory in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

25 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

public US-based companies between 1985 and 2012, looking at the price-per-share number of each offer. Based on what they already knew about the efficacy of precise numbers, they assumed that round-number bids would be in the minority. But it seemed that the investment... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Nov 2022
Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

earning billions, kept churning out its pills. By now, this story is a familiar one. But what is less well known is that the company had help not only from management consultant McKinsey & Company, which sold advice to Purdue on how... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

HBS Alumni Resume Book who have relevant board experience Identify and contact executive search firms (see list below) Increase Your Visibility Sell yourself as an expert - get published, get quoted, give speeches, serve on panels, etc. Invest in the organization View Details

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Harshini Chengareddty

female partner at a consulting firm trying to navigate her very successful career alongside equally demanding personal commitments. The conversation we had in class, and for many days after, was one of my favorites because while I... View Details

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