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Completing Graduate School Like a Consultant

Tom Spencer

You might be completing case studies, conducting experiments, and writing lengthy legal reports, all of which will prepare you for your career. This article reflects on 4 activities that were common time sinks in college. This skill will save you lots of your (and your client’s) time and money.

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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up. ” Two Days Earlier.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. ” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Doing Just Fine.

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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Meeting Ed Yu. “These are network analyses based on Molly’s and Ed’s e-mail and meeting history at BBI. “No problem,” she said.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address.

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Case Study: Should a Direct-to-Consumer Company Start Selling on Amazon?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. In the meetings with Gideon it feels like you’ve been holding something back. That afternoon, Mark asked Gideon to meet him in the cafeteria for coffee.

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Case Study: When You’re Successful, Stretched Too Thin, and Indispensable

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But she wanted to leave right then and there, write the pilot, schedule the meeting, make the pitch. “What’s wrong?” She had a lot more magic left in her.