career consulting - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

professionals with a very high need for achievement. Few want to make a career of working in the firm. These variables are different from regular organizations. The economic model is different as well. And the service expectations are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting

December 1999 (Revised August 2004)
Case

Tom Tierney at Bain & Company (A)

By: Ashish Nanda

Bain managing director Tom Tierney is contemplating how best to rotate the office head position between two partners at one of the firm's offices. The case provides background information on Bain's governance structure and Tierney's management style. View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Governance Controls; Management Succession; Personal Development and Career; Consulting Industry

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10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

caring partner is key to making things work. "But I've had to train my spouse," she joked. You have to manage your career for the long-term.—Kara Gruver, Bain Consulting Her advice? You can't be... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

times," he observes. Richard C. Whiteley (MBA '68), 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... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

industry are human talent and alignment. The work of professional service firms depends exclusively on the talent and intelligence of the people delivering it. Good firms hire the absolute best people and develop them, motivate them, and build View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

adults, she said, individuals can size up career choices on many levels. "I think you have to look at how you value your choices on multiple dimensions," she said. People shouldn't just choose work based on prestige or salary.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

found in a group of people previously thought to have a crippling condition: autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In a new case coauthored by Austin, "Specialisterne: Sense & Details," an innovative consultancy in Denmark has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

March 2020 (Revised January 2023)
Case

Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley-Bowles and Michael Norris

In 2019, Nadine Vogel, founder and CEO of Springboard Consulting, a firm that worked with Fortune 500 companies on issues related to disability and their workforce, faced the decision of the best path forward to grow her small company. Should she build more and better... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Market Entry and Exit; Consulting Industry; United States; Florida; New York (state, US)

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10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

do some sophisticated talent arbitrage” In order to gauge the effect on executive pay, the researchers obtained a data set from a large global headhunting company, one of many consulting firms that act as intermediaries between companies... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

caught the attention of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who sought her advice about online advertising, later offering her a position as Microsoft’s consulting chief economist, where she worked on the search advertising platform and a host... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

experience and the time they commit to the company. Some advisers work ad hoc as needed while others are more prescriptive with a set number of hours per week or month that they are available for consultation. In some cases, advisers are involved so much that it... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

pace due to the increased rate at which we now exchange information. That’s why it is more important than ever for managers to make increased efforts to stay relevant and protect against skill obsolescence. Might they learn something about the trajectories of their own... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville started his career in the Bell... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

01 Mar 2004
What Do You Think?

Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?

profitability? When several of us first began researching these relationships, findings such as these were news. Today we take them for granted. Fred Reichheld, among others, has fashioned a career as a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

the White House that will determine its budget and the career trajectory of its top officials. Of course, there is an overlap between the appearance of doing a good job and actually doing one. "If the USDA weren't doing its job, it... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

16 Aug 2016
First Look

August 16, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51488 June 2016 American Journal of Managed Care When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs By: Ljuboja, Damir, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

ship” career ladder Holmes pursued, Sandberg’s career path took on the shape of a “jungle gym” that she described in Lean In. “I could never have connected the dots from where I started to where I am today,”... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, and employees should carefully weigh the pros and cons before... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2016
First Look

April 26

intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher job-finding probabilities and wages at... View Details