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- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
review can help researchers identify high-quality teamwork surveys. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-116.pdf The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised Author:Wulf Abstract For decades, management consultants and the...
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Carmen Nobel
- August 2017 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Christopher Payton
This case provides a platform for discussing mental health and depression in entrepreneurship. Why do entrepreneurs have more mental health issues than other professions? What can an entrepreneur do if they face a situation where their mental well-being is being...
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Ghosh, Shikhar, Thomas R. Eisenmann, and Christopher Payton. "Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables." Harvard Business School Case 818-047, August 2017. (Revised November 2021.)
- July 2023
- Case
Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The founders of Dutch professional services firm Schuberg Philis, and the new leadership team entrusted with the day-to-day management, must set the path forward in 2019. The company has grown into a €70 million revenue strong IT provider with top ranks in the...
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Management Succession;
Growth Management;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Mission and Purpose;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Consulting Industry;
Consulting Industry;
Europe;
Netherlands
DeLong, Thomas J., and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance." Harvard Business School Case 424-012, July 2023.
- 08 Mar 2018
- Video
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- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
Technology on Firm Organization," a paper she cowrote with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. "Technologies that make...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
start careers in consulting are facing some of the toughest market conditions we’ve seen since 2007 and 2008. Just a few years ago, as a derivative of the COVID-19 pandemic, firms experienced a dramatic and...
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by Rachel Layne
Frances X. Frei
Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders create the conditions for organizations and individuals to thrive by designing for excellence in operations, strategy, and culture.... View Details
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- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
Limits To Leadership Being the chief executive of any company is a demanding job. Carrying out the responsibilities of a CEO in a professional service firm is exceptionally challenging because the position lacks the inherent power and...
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by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- November 1997 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Interactive Minds (A)
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael J. Roberts and Christina L. Darwall
The efforts of two recent Harvard Business School graduates to start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet are recounted. Raises the question of what the nature of this opportunity is, how well-positioned the protagonists...
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Venture Capital;
Internet and the Web;
Market Entry and Exit;
Financing and Loans;
Business Startups;
Consulting Industry
Sahlman, William A., Michael J. Roberts, and Christina L. Darwall. "Interactive Minds (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-072, November 1997. (Revised October 2000.)
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Company, a management consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In recent years, she has devoted time to her family's philanthropic interests, community organizations, and raising the couple's four...
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Full Biography
By: Rohit Deshpande
Rohit Deshpandé is Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business Schoolwhere he currently teaches in the Owner/President Management Program and in other executive education offerings. He has also taught global branding, international marketing, and... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
firms face little competition, even after the end of formal periods of patent protection and market exclusivity. Additionally, the evolving technologies of drug development—in particular, the increasingly common use of auxiliary endpoints...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
solutions to strategy execution challenges at a growing consulting firm Capstone activity: develop an action plan for implementing the levers of control at your or another organization Free E-Book How to...
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- Web
Podcast - Business & Environment
2024 | Climate Rising In this episode in our adaptation series, Peter Hall, Managing Director at Resonance Impact Advisory, draws upon his experience in global engineering and professional services firms to share how View Details
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Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Cases View a list of published and in-progress case studies about how companies around the world create shared value. Current cases include Discovery Limited, Dow, and more. Read about CSV cases CSV in Practice Learn how the nonprofit View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
of the inner workings of the firm, fires the CEO but appoints an acting CEO while a talent consultant is hired to begin a search for a replacement. Given the natural bias of the search firm and the board's...
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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
oversold and overpriced, Blair touts targeted training as a more practical alternative for workers and employers. Can Multiverse expand the practicum in the US? Deloitte's Dan Helfrich on consulting in the post-Covid, AI-inflected new...
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- 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...
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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)
Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Hannah Riley-Bowles, and Michael Norris. "Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities." Harvard Business School Case 420-062, March 2020. (Revised January 2023.)
- July 2023
- Supplement
Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance (B)
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Three years into their “Ambition” growth plan, in 2022, the management team of Dutch professional service firm Schuberg Philis is taking stock. The global COVID-19 pandemic and other headwinds required adjustments to their growth targets, but they believe that their...
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Management Succession;
Growth Management;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Mission and Purpose;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Consulting Industry;
Consulting Industry;
Europe;
Netherlands
DeLong, Thomas J., and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 424-013, July 2023.
- April 1997 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
KPMG Peat Marwick U.S.: One Giant Brain
Demonstrates how organizations can move toward creation of processes and information technology infrastructures for effective knowledge management in order to enhance performance and productivity. More specifically, describes the knowledge management strategy of KPMG...
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Internet;
Information Technology;
Knowledge Management;
Consulting Industry;
Consulting Industry;
United States
Alavi, Maryam. "KPMG Peat Marwick U.S.: One Giant Brain." Harvard Business School Case 397-108, April 1997. (Revised July 1997.)