G’ day from breezy London
Change challenge
Partnership strategy
G’ day from breezy London
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We’ ve finished the term here, and I’ m pleased to report I was part of a team that won £ 500 from BDO Stoy Hayward for the best final presentation in the subject, Managing the Growing Business. The rest of the team came from the London Business School’ s executive program, the Sloan program and University College, London. We’ re off to spend the proceeds this evening. Go AGSM! Incidentally, I’ ve had a great time here – fantastic facilities, great people and interesting subjects. Who could ask for more? See you in 2001.” – Elaine Potter( MBA’ 00)
Elaine Potter studied at the London Business School in Term 3, 2000 through the AGSM’ s international exchange of the full-time MBA program. Potter enjoyed the benefits of the exchange after transferring to the full-time MBA program. She began her studies part-time with the GSB prior to the AGSM merger.
Enjoying the spoils of great work( from left): Lesley Gavin( University College, London), Elaine Potter( AGSM) and Dr Judi Sutherland( London Business School).
Change challenge
Christopher Walker( MBA’ 88) is successfully adapting corporate change process and strategy to effect change in First Nation communities in Canada. Walker’ s work( through Walker International and its Real Spirit life coaching programs) has tackled tough issues such as high suicide rates, substance abuse, domestic problems and high unemployment in the first two years of what will be a five-year program. Walker is pictured with Big Cove native community children in New Brunswick, Canada.
Paul Hyde, one of three Australians elected to Booz • Allen’ s partnership this year.“ We have a very strong group of partners in Australia to grow the business.”
Partnership strategy
Paul Hyde( MBA’ 91) has been elected as partner of international management consultancy Booz • Allen & Hamilton. He was one of three Australians to be promoted to the partnership in 2000.
Since joining Booz • Allen in 1993 as an associate, Hyde has advised numerous financial services and energy clients across Australia and Asia on a wide range of issues, including strategy development, operations and organisation transformation.
Hyde says consulting provides the opportunity to work with very senior managers on a wide variety of issues that are important to the success of their strategic agenda. He says to be successful in the profession, consultants needs to be continually developing innovative approaches to solve the problems that CEOs face.
“ E-commerce is high on the agendas of many of our clients at the moment,” says Hyde,“ with many asking how they should build their e-commerce capabilities. Do I spin it off into a separate listed company? Do we build a central capability in-house or do we let the business units pursue their own initiatives?
“ For example, we are currently establishing a Web portal for a consortium of international airlines. In doing so we are addressing some very fundamental issues around governance and equity ownership that are quite groundbreaking in the e-commerce space. In this environment we really need innovative thinking from our consultants.”
Hyde says an MBA is a good platform to launch a career in consulting and sees the AGSM as a key source of recruits for Booz • Allen & Hamilton. ✪
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