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Tierney founded and runs the Bridgespan Group, which offers consulting services to non-profits as an independent branch of the consulting firm Bain & Company...
LECTURE | Norton lectures: Manet’s Le bain and the death of the historic landscape As part of an ongoing series entitled “Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye,” art historian Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, will speak on the death of the historic landscape. She specializes in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the work of Gustave Courbet and the Impressionists, as well as the representation of women and the work of women artists...
...does Dell do it? Direct sales. Back in 1994, largely at the behest of Rollins, then a consultant at Bain & Co., Dell jettisoned sales through retailers. In 2001, when much of the tech world was still in denial, Rollins slashed 5,700 jobs while stepping into his current role as COO. "We saw the downturn coming," says Rollins. "Because of our direct-sales model, we were talking to suppliers and customers daily." Next step: Dell got aggressive on the supply chain, cutting inventory from seven days to three and building to order only. The company slashed prices at home, then...
...seemed like a colossal blunder at the time,” says Sherwood E. Bain ’45, who has analyzed and written about Harvard’s finances for years as a Boston investment banker...
...Bain says MATEP’s costs seemed larger in the 1970s and haven’t adversely affected the University...