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- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Striking a Balance
Alvin J. Silk The struggle to balance career and family was all too familiar to the late Diane Doerge Wilson, whose memory is being honored with an HBS professorship funded by a gift from her husband, Alvin J. Silk. A senior consultant at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
essential relationship, including strategies for determining how your boss prefers to process information and make decisions, tips for communicating mutual expectations, and tactics for negotiating priorities. The Adventures of an IT... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
Denmark West (MBA 1998), founding partner of Connectivity Ventures and Culture Shift partner and advisor (photo by Brian Ach) It’s a common scenario: A company wants to increase diversity on its board or in its C-suite, and its high-ranking leaders reach out to a View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
notes Cahill. Among the clubs that support nonprofits, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England and the HBS Club of Philadelphia have hosted nonprofit conferences for several years. These conferences provide nonprofit leaders with leading-edge thinking on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Over 50 and Job Hunting?
that their age had disqualified them for positions already. While acknowledging the existence of stereotypes that portray older managers as less creative, energetic, or knowledgeable than younger job candidates, Pam Lassiter, principal of Boston-based Lassiter View Details
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
Canadians.” Formerly a business strategy consultant at Monitor Group and marketing VP at Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund, since 2011 Goldstein has been working as an independent View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
No fees are paid, giving all parties the same goal—a successful outcome. "There weren't many strategy consulting firms in Canada at that time," he says. "The clients were in a mix of industries, and the work... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
from the management consulting firm Accenture to help HBS study the shortage of workers for “middle skills” jobs—those that require more than a high-school diploma but less than a college degree. “There are large pools of unemployed... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
running M&A and strategy for a public company and did 17 acquisitions around the globe. I think of it as kind of one of those best laid plans stories. Sometimes it doesn't work out exactly the way you wanted it to and it takes a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby boomers are coming into their fifties, which is a natural time to start... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
go from $10 to $15 million down to $500,000 to $1 million,” comments MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management Practice Joe Lassiter. “Since I came to the School in 1996 I’ve also seen more and more students who have already worked at View Details
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
Sixty nonprofit executives from the Philadelphia area attended the HBS Club of Philadelphia’s fifth annual nonprofit conference in November. The one-day event provided attendees with leading-edge thinking on executing strategy in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
Leonard and Swap offer managers proven strategies for generating the group dynamics that lie at the heart of innovative thinking, including specific techniques for rechanneling the tension of conflicting points of view into new ideas and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
Recommended by Strategy consultant Vivek Ravishanker (MBA 2012) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight Knight on the idea that became Nike: “That morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
1985) in getting the bank online. With a deep interest in information technologies and how organizations differ in management practices and structure, Assistant Professor Raffaella Sadun joins the Strategy unit. She earned a Ph.D. in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
Less than 20 percent of new businesses last five years. Despite those daunting odds, three MBAs from the Class of 1998 are among the elite who succeeded, and their stories make compelling reading in a new book. Former Washington Post reporter Bill Murphy Jr. tried his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
Before he launched Harley-Davidson in India, Anoop Prakash (MBA 2001) held business development roles in technology and was a consultant at McKinsey. He also had experience in the public sector and in the US Marine Corps. But he hadn’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
structures, whereas the relevant problem is how it creates and destroys them.” Creative destruction constantly sweeps out old products, old enterprises, and old organizational forms, replacing them with new ones. “Every piece of business View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
to leave the state for college, Gregg majored in economics and East Asian studies at Washington and Lee University and worked as a consultant at Charles River Associates before coming to HBS. “I got to do such crazy stuff,” she says of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
entrepreneur who initially thought he’d have a career in the private sector before pursuing academia. He spent the summer between his first and second years as an MBA working as a consultant and discovered he loved the process of... View Details