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Brett Gibson
rally around the people who are down; in good times, we celebrate together." Private and public ambitions In 2009, Brett served as a political strategist for Bob McDonnell's successful gubernatorial campaign in Virginia. Ultimately,... View Details
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Sebastien D'Incau
Chances are (metaphorically speaking), Sebastien D'Incau has been in your home. As a marketing strategist and planner with Procter & Gamble, Sebastien worked on a number or products familiar to consumers worldwide, including the... View Details
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Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog
managing customer relationships and driving customer growth are central. This includes: Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders (e.g., CEOs, CMOs, Chief Growth Officers, Chief Customer Officers) seeking to build and scale customer-centric businesses. Consultants and View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
Unfortunately, skilled, business-oriented technology strategists are in short supply. In the absence of such a person within a company, an IT consultant who can help sort out technology issues can fit the bill, as might a divisional CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
president’s biggest challenge will be to prevent America’s slide into a position where it is dependent on foreign sources for both capital and energy. We have the human resources to accomplish these goals. The question is whether we have the will. — Byron Wien is chief... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Samsung Global Strategy Group
focus on filling a role called Global Strategist. Interns spend two months living and working in our headquarters in downtown Seoul. Global Strategists work as internal consultants for our various business units for 1.5 to 2 years, after... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Archdiocese of Washington. As strategist for the Washington, DC, office of the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, Lina Feng continued at the job after finishing her fellowship in 2013 and is now a student at HBS. “There... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
and yet the popularity of SWOT—which was still used by many firms, including Wal-Mart, in the 1990s—did not bring closure to the problem of actually defining a firm's distinctive competence. To solve this problem, strategists had to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
evidence-based, data-driven, iterative product-development process.” Dumon wasn't disappointed. "The whole experience was life-changing," he says. "It was the passion, the drive, the business cases themselves." He cites former finance professor Donald Collat, now... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to understand the consumer psychology behind partitioned prices... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
of the paper’s authors. The main reason is that party and candidate positions on key issues subtly or not-so-subtly change from election to election in reaction to shifts in voter sentiment, undercutting the demographic trends. Political View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
the Market Harvard Business School Note 707-469 Strategists are not alone in finding failing markets irresistible. Governments and social groups ranging from unions to the World Wildlife Fund also respond to market failures. Governments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Technology & Innovation Professor of Business Policy, INSEAD “Michael Porter’s stature as the preeminent business strategist in the world is unassailable. He invented the theory of competitive advantage and continues to innovate insights... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
a current client and supplier, Google, which has shown an interest in expanding its reach beyond online search advertising and aims to use the entire gamut of video, audio, and print media to create advertisements for companies of all sizes worldwide. When Google... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
there isn’t a better fit out there, or you realize there is something else you should pursue.” Before the Carnegie Corporation, you were at the Ford Foundation for 13 years, as a portfolio strategist and senior manager of private equity.... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
instructor, and later as a strategist for the Pentagon: O: Observe O: Orientate D: Decide A: Act Boyd's insight came from the need to develop a strategic approach—simple in nature, easy to execute and communicate—that made up for the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
Q: Let me ask you one more question, and that is, putting on your expert strategist hat, Ford Motor Company's in trouble. It's losing a lot of money, in particular in North America. What's the most important thing it has to do to get back... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
traditional newspapers are fighting an uphill battle for readership against Internet content portals. Q: From a management skills perspective, what do managers and strategists who make their living from software platforms need? Seems like... View Details