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...Thomas C. Foley ’75 arrived in Baghdad in August 2003 with the task of privatizing many of the country’s 192 state-controlled companies. After graduating from HBS in 1979, Foley worked at McKinsey & Co. and Citigroup’s venture capital arm before founding NTC Group, a private equity firm, in 1985. He was tapped by the Bush administration in August 2003 to serve as the Coalition’s director of private-sector development...
...juniors recovering from the rush of recruiting season, it might seem hard to imagine quitting a coveted consulting job to work in a restaurant kitchen. But Joanne B. Chang ’91 did just that when she left McKinsey to pursue her dream of becoming a bakery chef over a decade ago. Chang, who now owns her own bakery, first entered the culinary world by writing letters to restaurant owners in Boston promising that she would “work hard and do whatever you want.” Chang told her unlikely story to nearly 30 female students...
...capable of effecting around the world have the potential to save lives—if that is not consistent with the mission of Harvard Medical School, than it is hard to see what is. Profitability should not be dismissed for its own sake. While HMI may resemble McKinsey & Company more closely than the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the increasing globalization of health care calls for bold new initiatives, not narrow-minded thinking and knee-jerk responses to programs that don’t fit the traditional mold of Harvard institutions...
...Seeing the writing on the wall, HMI’s board authorized the organization’s management to hire McKinsey & Company to help map out the subsidiary’s options...
...professional choices were anomalous given his Indian heritage is not required for Ms. Sequeira to make her central point. And somewhat humorously, a bit of research about Christianity in India, a visit to the Brown and Oxford campuses, and perhaps most tellingly, a quick tour of almost any McKinsey office in the U.S. would almost certainly reveal the irony therein...