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• Working Paper | HBS Working Paper Series | 2020

  Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968

  Amar Bhide

  This case history analyzes how the founders of McKinsey & Co. built one of the world's leading management consulting firms by developing a “system” of professional norms, approach to serving clients, personnel policies, organization, governance, and ownership. The history also shows that while McKinsey’s founders resorted to considerable trial and error, it was not ad hoc: they intended to discover the best means to further a long-term vision and strategy. Moreover, their vision and strategy derived more from a priori faith and personal values than from scientific evidence or financial calculation.

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  Bhide, Amar. "Building the Professional Firm: McKinsey & Co.: 1939-1968." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 95-010, January 1995. (Revised July 2020.)  View Details

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• Working Paper | HBS Working Paper Series | 2020

  Note on Practical Knowledge

  Amar Bhidé

  This Note examines the development of the knowledge embodied in ‘artifacts’—things and arrangements that do not exist in nature. It focuses on ‘multi-player’ advances—artifacts and knowledge developed by and for the many—and highlights the venturesome spirit and technical scaffolding of such advances. And it suggests ways for using the scaffolding while keeping the spirit.

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  Bhidé, Amar. "Note on Practical Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-010, July 2020. (Revised August 2020.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | July 2020

  Applying Data Science and Analytics at P&G

  Srikant M. Datar, Sarah Mehta and Paul Hamilton

  Set in December 2019, this case explores how P&G has applied data science and analytics to cut costs and improve outcomes across its business units. The case provides an overview of P&G’s approach to data management and governance, and reviews the challenges associated with changing long-established work processes within the company. It concludes by exploring four examples of how P&G has applied analytics to its businesses.

  Keywords: data science; analytics; Analysis; Information; Information Management; Information Types; Innovation and Invention; Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Ohio;

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  Datar, Srikant M., Sarah Mehta, and Paul Hamilton. "Applying Data Science and Analytics at P&G." Harvard Business School Case 121-006, July 2020.  View Details

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