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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
appealed to Weeks when he arrived at Corning as a Price Waterhouse consultant after graduating from Lehigh University. “I was impressed with the people and what the company stood for,” he recalls. The feeling was mutual: Corning asked him... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
1996 international bestseller, Leading Change. This time around, Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen of Deloitte Consulting bring to life the principles of successful change with stories culled from hundreds of interviews with people from... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
examined benchmarks on fiscal and monetary measures that were being implemented across the world. The team also consulted leading actors in the public and private sectors. “We received data from different ministries—tourism,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
given my background, I could come in and make a difference." Wood's prior career included working for Gil Kemp (MBA 1976) in direct marketing for Bertelsmann and for Pearson Education publishing companies. In 2005, she decided to hang a shingle for her own View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
Image by C.J. Burton While the US economy is showing signs of recovery, don't pop the champagne just yet, say HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter. Onstage at Spangler Auditorium in May, the pair laid out the deeper challenges the nation still faces: labor... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
about your consumers, too. I'd like to mention, you know, there was this study done maybe 10 years ago by the Boston Consulting Group. They interviewed about 25,000 women across 20 countries, and their conclusions showed that the female... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
encountered a political phone vendor was in 1983. He was 26 years old at the time, serving as deputy campaign manager for a gubernatorial candidate in his native Mississippi. A Washington-based consultant came down to pitch the campaign... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
reconstruction. We talked at length by phone about his new book, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace (see story). For Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993), the solutions he sought were less elusive (see story). The founder and chairman of Satyam Computer... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
think, ‘Maybe there could be a whole television channel devoted to food.’ It was a big question mark,” Duda says now with a laugh. “I’ve worked on a small part of a big canvas of cultural change,” Duda says of his consulting career in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
things.” Until he adjusted to the daily grind of preparing lesson plans and correcting tests and homework, Watson regularly found himself logging ninety-hour workweeks — after taking a 90 percent pay cut from the consulting job he held... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
interview. Among their findings: In the 1960s and 1970s, MBAs graduated with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they’d hire an MBA. According to several deans, that’s no longer true. Financial... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
which matches consumer demand with sellers' excess inventory -- one of the Internet's big winners. The inspiration of former marketing consultant Jay Walker, Priceline opened for business a little over two years ago. Previously, in 1995,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
whether to build the supply of talent to attract clients first, or vice versa. Building the supply side has been straightforward, but convincing enterprise clients to leverage talent as a service as part of their strategy has been more... View Details
- 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 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their... View Details