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  • December 2002 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Matt Leeds (A)

By: Linda A. Hill

A new associate in a consulting firm attempts to navigate his way through the norms and culture of a new setting and to manage his relationships with his superiors and peers, which got off to a poor start.

PLEASE NOTE: This case was revised in January 2014.... View Details

Keywords: Power and Influence; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Consulting Industry
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  • November 1997 (Revised January 2005)
  • Background Note

Orientation for Viewing Humphrey Chen

By: Monica C. Higgins, John Galvin and Adam Richman
Addresses the career decision-making process of Humphrey Chen as he graduates from HBS with an MBA. In choosing between an offer from a top-tier consulting firm and launching a start-up entrepreneurial venture, Chen must weigh the expectations of many people--family,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
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  • September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
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Deloitte & Touche (A): A Hole in the Pipeline

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Deloitte & Touche was losing talented women, and CEO Mike Cook wanted to stop the loss, especially as the accounting and consulting fields became more competitive. The firm commissioned an analysis of the situation; now it had to consider the results and develop a plan... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States
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  • 20 Mar 2012
  • News

Two Harvard Business School Professors Win McKinsey Awards

  • Research Summary

Executive Compensation

By: Tatiana Sandino

Professor Sandino’s other stream of research examines players that influence the design of an executive’s compensation. She has examined the role shareholder activists can play in influencing CEO pay and found that a compensation-related shareholder proposal could... View Details

    Feng Zhu

    Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

    • August 2001 (Revised May 2004)
    • Case

    Maria Hernandez & Associates

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    This case presents the situation of an unemployed web page designer who starts a new consulting firm with personal savings and a family loan. Two months later, she is to report on operations to her father, using financial reports she must design and construct. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Accounting; Business Startups; Design; Borrowing and Debt; Service Industry
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    • 17 May 2012
    • News

    How To Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone

      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

      • 18 Sep 2015
      • News

      A Toxic Work World

      • April 2008 (Revised April 2009)
      • Case

      Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.

      By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane
      As CEO of leading executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles for the past 18 months, Kevin Kelly was pleased with his accomplishments so far but concerned about threats he perceived to Heidrick's position at the highest levels of the executive search business. In... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Recruitment; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Employment Industry; Service Industry
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      • September 1988 (Revised January 1989)
      • Case

      Unisys: The Merger of Burroughs and Sperry

      Mike Blumenthal, CEO of Burroughs, successfully executes the merger of Burroughs and Sperry in 1986. The case discusses the putting together of the two firms in a fast time period in order to achieve cost savings, high earnings, and an integrated culture. Blumenthal... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Consolidation
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      • June 2001
      • Case

      Bedrock Productions

      By: Michael J. Roberts and Michael L. Tushman
      Describes a young Web consulting firm going through a very rapid period of growth in late 1999 and 2000. The founder/CEO sees himself as a strategist and marketer who is less well-suited to the operational details, that are expanding as the firm grows. A president is... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Management Teams; Change Management; Managerial Roles; Consulting Industry
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      • 24 Mar 2010
      • News

      Three Harvard Business School Professors Win McKinsey Awards

      • Career Coach

      Ildi Nielsen

      Ildi (Dartmouth ’94) offers 20 years of experience as a Career Coach and Executive Search Consultant for MBA and post-MBA professionals. She worked as a Career Coach at Boston Consulting Group where she... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting
      • August 2003 (Revised August 2006)
      • Case

      New Sector Alliance (A): An Entry into Health Care?

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Stacy Smollin Schwartz and Jeffrey Cronin
      Describes the structure of the U.S. health care system and presents a study of a nonprofit consulting firm that hopes to enter the health care system. Includes descriptions of hospitals, doctors, insurers, medical technology providers, medical devices, pharmaceuticals,... View Details
      Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; United States
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      • October 2004 (Revised November 2004)
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      Mavens & Moguls: Creating a New Business Model

      By: Myra M. Hart, Victoria Winston and Kristin Lieb
      Mavens & Moguls is a "virtual" marketing-consulting firm of approximately 40 professionals. Examines the processes by which its founder, Paige Arnof-Fenn, learns the business, builds a power network of industry experts and potential customers, and uses this expertise... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Values and Beliefs; Work-Life Balance; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Operations; Networks; Business Model; Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Consulting Industry
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      • January 2005
      • Case

      Building Career Foundations: Humphrey Chen (A)

      Follows the career decision making of a second-year MBA student who is engaged and must negotiate both cross-cultural and dual-career issues. Humphrey Chen must decide between a consulting firm and running his own start-up company (pre-Internet boom). He confronts... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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      • 08 Mar 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

      Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two very different View Details
      Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
      • October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
      • Case

      Booz.Allen & Hamilton: Vision 2000

      In 1993, Booz.Allen & Hamilton forsook its previous, highly local organizational structure. It was motivated by a desire to serve multinational clients more effectively and to provide greater value to clients with more localized business by collecting best practices... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Service Industry
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