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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
who has long been known for the Zenlike cool that comes over him in tense dealmaking negotiations when others begin to sweat. His reputation as a brilliant, aggressive takeover strategist made Wasserstein Perella a key player in most of... 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
- 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
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
the present. Q: One of the payoffs in your book for global strategists is an analysis of the top ten countries in terms of economic development and potential trajectories. Obviously each situation is different, but which countries would... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty
Khalid Alghimlas earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical and biological engineering from Colorado State University in 2011 and is a strategist and business development consultant. Khalid was born and raised in the eastern province of... View Details
- 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
- Web
Road to the White House 2024, a Private Sector Perspective on Presidential Politics - Course Catalog
colleague, or family member. Guests will include nationally recognized journalists, political pundits, pollsters, and presidential campaign strategists and operatives. We will discuss the similarities between politics and the private... 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
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
years ago that the approach to inclusion in business was flawed. As a former marketing expert and growth strategist who helped clients find new business opportunities—largely in nonwhite, affluent markets—she was called in to create... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 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
- 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
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
"reorganizing" and "incentives" is usually the primary prescription if and when strategists even discuss sales. On the other side, there is a vast amount of anecdotal advice, mainly from consultants and trainers who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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