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...announcement, her staff expressed confusion. The University remained notably silent on the issue, and both Mora and Shore repeatedly refused requests for interviews. The resignation came at a time of increasing turnover in Harvard’s highest administrative positions. Shore previously served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he worked with clients in the fields of higher education, technology, and consumer products. He had also been a corporate lawyer at the Boston-based firm Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP. Shore attended Duke as an undergraduate, where he studied psychology and political science. He also has a law degree from...
...course, better models won't work unless people learn how to use them. McKinsey directors Ron Hulme and Kevin Buehler and senior risk expert Andrew Freeman argue in the Harvard Business Review this month that "a growing emphasis on mathematical modeling has rendered much of the risk-management debate and research incomprehensible to those outside the finance function and the financial services industry." The upshot, they say, is that corporate managers who aren't already experts at risk aren't prepared to factor it into their decisions...
...London Stock Exchange, for example, are allowed to have the same person serving as both CEO and chairman - but they must provide a compelling reason why. As a result, some 95% of British companies split the job. Simon Wong, who studied the topic as a consultant at McKinsey, points to another reason why separating the roles is a tough sell in the U.S. "If you do not occupy both positions you are perceived to be not a sufficiently strong leader," says Wong. "That's a very U.S. perspective...
...Though she began her acting career onstage in New York City and with a notable portrayal of Honey in the original 1964 London production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Beverlee McKinsey was best known for her work on the small screen. She earned four Daytime Emmy nominations during her nine-year tenure as the conniving Iris Carrington on the soap opera Another World and captivated audiences as the matriarch on the popular series Guiding Light, which she starred in from...
...descend upon the Yard and the Houses. Some are working to earn a bit of spending money for their European excursion, others as a transition between the raucous end-of-year celebrations and the lucrative consulting position that has been on their mind since the congratulatory phone call from McKinsey. In the midst of it all, maybe some of the modesty and perspective that escaped out the window so long ago as that letter arrived will return home for good...