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Teele Hall | About

doctoral degree awarded by HBS in 1933, spent two years in business before joining the HBS faculty in 1935 as an assistant professor of marketing. He became a full professor in 1944. During World War II, he served as a consultant to the... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

exponentially since we were at HBS. I marvel at how quickly things have changed. When I started in this business, if a client wanted price and volume information, someone had to literally go to the library to consult the books put out by... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Industry Information - Alumni

for every state in the US + – Consulting Top-Consultant.com An aggregate of all the most recent news in the consulting industry. Consulting The primary news publication for the... View Details

10 May 2012
Working Paper Summaries

The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised

Keywords: by Julie Wulf

10 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

and do a ten day consulting project for a company in an emerging market. My team worked for Dafiti.com, the second largest e-commerce retailer in Brazil. I was impressed by how rapidly e-commerce companies could create jobs and started... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

San Diego and about 15 minutes from the beach...a very pretty course.” R&D: “Callaway brought in some aerodynamicists from Boeing to consult with our team, which resulted in a little bit of a breakthrough on the XR 16 driver. It has a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

occupations with unmet needs or in areas with unmet needs, and For or under the direction of a governmental unit or a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Additional information can be found in Section 5 of IRS Publication 970 (pdf) . If you have additional... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

decades, helped managers, management scholars, and consultants diagnose and solve the problems besetting companies large and small. Explaining the case studies that define the practice, he discusses how the model has been refined and... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

competitive intelligence, and people strategy. Before joining GS, Jonah served as a Consultant with Cognoscere on an education development project in Kurdistan and as a Research Analyst for the Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

responsibilities Foster successful strategy execution by establishing an environment that communicates which opportunities and behaviors are encouraged and which are out of bounds Who Will Benefit Mid-Level Managers and Professionals Aspiring Managers Entrepreneurs and... View Details

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

ground.” Between March 2015 and June 2016, the project team collected and analyzed data on 6,894 patient visits to the five clinics. The data revealed huge variations in the average consult time for individual patients. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

classes we took, I did write a case on Raj Kapoor, one of the early entrepreneurs in Bollywood, for Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism, a class taught by the inimitable Geoffrey Jones. And I did quit my job as a consultant to start... View Details

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

companies cook the deal up together, and then other stakeholders are consulted much later downstream, if at all. But the lack of consultation early on with all stakeholders eventually blows up in their faces... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2005
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Turkish Delight

could be seen as a vestigial remnant of the six years he spent as a consultant at Bain & Company after leaving HBS. “Once a Bainie, always a Bainie. And I’m married to one as well,” he laughs, referring to the company’s chairman, Orit... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Prineeta Kulkarni

interfered with survival, but also with how patients integrated into their communities." After graduation, she took a position with a boutique consulting firm, L.E.K. Consulting, that concentrated on a portfolio of life science,... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Peter Gumulia

management is only one piece of the puzzle. I wanted to get closer to the decision making – which ultimately led me to business.” After college, Peter turned to management consulting with a two-year stint at Bain & Co in the US and... View Details

28 Mar 2012
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Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

the loss of jobs in manufacturing hadn't been offset by new tradable jobs involved in the creation of ideas (for example, consulting and the development of new information technologies, nearly all service sector jobs). Spence argues in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

06 Jan 2021
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My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

consulting for two years prior to coming to HBS. Growing up in a family that prioritized saving for a rainy day, I had been contributing as much as I could to retirement savings. I was relieved to find that doing so would not hurt my... View Details

February 2018 (Revised April 2018)
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Omar Simmons: Franchising and Private Equity

By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode

Omar Simmons, managing director of a private equity fund that owns 53 Planet Fitness Health Clubs, has to choose: continue in private equity or shift his career to managing and growing the health clubs. An African-American graduate of Princeton University and Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Diversity Characteristics; Ethnicity Characteristics; Health Club Franchises; African-american Entrepreneurs; Finance; Private Equity; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Motivation and Incentives; Personal Development and Career; Franchise Ownership; Consulting Industry; Boston

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04 May 2020
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6 Things You Should Know About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

Give yourself a few months to really pour over the essay questions and find the anecdotes and experiences in your life that you think will allow you to portray your most authentic self. Consult with family, close friends, and colleagues –... View Details

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