Analysis Group Partners Highlight Innovative Management, One-Firm Framework at MIT Sloan Event

November 4, 2024

In a wide-ranging conversation featuring Analysis Group CEO and Chairman Martha Samuelson and Managing Principal Rebecca Kirk Fair, the two leaders shared their respective career paths and reasons how they work to sustain the firm’s unique culture.

Both women are MIT Sloan alumnae and were the featured speakers at the MIT Leadership Center’s Innovative Leadership (iLead) Series. The series features industry leaders discussing what innovative management looks like in practice.

Ms. Samuelson pointed to Analysis Group’s partner committees as one example of that innovation. When the firm started in 1981, its leadership team was small enough to gather in one room when making management decisions. Today, Analysis Group is overseen by more than 80 partners around the world. To address the firm’s expansion, each partner joins a committee based on their interests in the firm’s management. “Some are interested in the HR parts, some the finance parts, some the foreign offices,” she said. “I think that’s really helpful to us in terms of having the partnership be cohesive and the firm be able to be agile with this number of partners.”

Ms. Kirk Fair credited Analysis Group’s one-firm model for encouraging information sharing across teams and seniority levels. “I often learn from the more junior people on my project different ways of approaching a problem, different techniques, different software programs, different articles that actually cut across finance, antitrust, surveys,” she said. “If we were siloed, we would lose that.”

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