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- July 2002 (Revised December 2002)
- Case
Mercer Management Consulting (A)
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Echenberg
Insurance giant Marsh & McLennan acquires management consulting firms Temple, Barker & Sloane (TBS) in 1987 and Strategic Planning Associates (SPA) in 1990 and sets out to merge the two. The merger proceeds slowly and painfully. Following the February 1990 merger,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Horizontal Integration; Consulting Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Michael Echenberg. "Mercer Management Consulting (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-009, July 2002. (Revised December 2002.)
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
divest Fiat's core automobile business; when that was rejected by creditors and shareholders, he resigned in 2003. Consider, too, John Trani, who in 1997 left a long career at GE Plastics for toolmaker and hardware manufacturer Stanley... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community
Previously, she held roles at Glossier, Spotify, and YouTube. Carlyn received her B.A. from Stanford University and currently lives in Los Angeles. What was your career plan when you arrived at HBS? In my role leading up to HBS, I had... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
athletes have relatively short careers compared to most other professionals, it is extremely important to strategically manage these assets and to make the right decisions at the right times. Q: What makes... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
Perold, and Peter Tufano — which he said had a lot to do with his initial career decision to go to Wall Street. “Also, in my first year,” he says, “I was fortunate to have Nitin Nohria as my Organizational... View Details
- Profile
Juan Pablo Moncayo
Sachs. The perfect transition to a new career path Following the advice of SEO mentors, JP visited HBS in 2007. "I fell in love with the campus," he says. "I thought the case method made sense. Having served on corporate... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
Even they feel a lack of agency within their organizations. Thus, we face two groups on different ends of the career spectrum with a shared belief in their powerlessness. It would be tragic if their pessimism were on target. Thankfully,... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14060 Bounded Decision Making: From Description to Improvement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
On opposite coasts of the United States, two HBS clubs have developed innovative programs to help MBA students broaden their career options. "I am confident that I will get a job in Seattle when I graduate," says Martin DeBono (HBS '00),... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
(See chart.) The Financial Times and the Economist go global with their surveys, including schools in Europe and Asia. (Bloomberg Businessweek creates a separate list of the top international programs.) The FT emphasizes MBAs’ salary growth and View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
organizing the Lean In Community (on Facebook, of course). Some of her advice is useful no matter one's gender, given Sandberg's disparate career stops at Facebook and Google, the Treasury Department, and McKinsey & Company. For example,... View Details
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
globe. Yet, such episodes also create business opportunities – and not just for the hedge funds and speculators that profit from them. Managers that have and use a coherent framework for understanding and analyzing these phenomena will enjoy a competitive advantage.... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group
in a variety of roles, including marketing, strategy, or channel management among others, before transferring to one of our 90 subsidiaries and 15 regional headquarters to further develop their careers with Samsung. What recruiting... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
imagine Snyder in a far more genteel setting than this drab, brown, Depression-era room on the 13th floor of 100 Centre Street on the city’s Lower East Side. Yet no one who has followed Snyder’s remarkable legal career has any doubt about... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. This is not your parents' workplace anymore, Joseph Fuller reminds... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
completion of a brief form. We asked Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, a few questions about his recently published interview with Azmi, which was conducted in 2015. Sean Silverthorne: Had you followed her View Details
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Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog
practitioner Jeff Bussgang (Flybridge co-founder and general partner), Field Course: Venture Capital Journey (VCJ) is designed for a group of EC students who are serious about pursuing a career in venture capital – most of our students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date. Why hadn’t anyone applied these models to match people to their perfect career? MORE Polli matches characteristics to View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- April 2001
- Teaching Note
Katharine Graham TN
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Lisa M. Gunther and Dina R. Pradel
Teaching Note for (9-801-276). View Details