The Breakthrough Company - Keith McFarland

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Keith McFarland Published in Time

June 2008

Time Magazine's June 2nd edition features an article by Keith McFarland on risk-taking and entrepreneurship.

Myth of the Fearless Entrepreneur

Sloan Management Review Features Keith McFarland Article

April 2008

"Should you Build Strategy Like You Build Software," by Keith McFarland, is featured in the prestigious Sloan Management Review's Spring 2008 edition.

Keith McFarland Interviewed on First Business

March 2008

Tom Hudson recently intervied Keith McFarland on his nationally syndicated First Business show. Hudson asked Keith about what he learned from the extensive research that went into The Breakthrough Company.

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At age 26, Keith McFarland was named associate dean of the Pepperdine University School of Business and Management, making him one of the youngest business school deans in the nation. He went on serve as CEO of two technology companies, Two-time Inc. 500 winner Collectech Systems, and Nivo International, which operated 2,000 testing centers in 60 countries as the exclusive global provider of certification services for Microsoft Office.

In 2000 he founded McFarland Strategy Partners, a strategic advisory company which has assisted major companies such as Morgan Stanley, EGL and Prudential, and growth companies, including Vans, House of Blues and dozens of others.

Keith writes a regular online column for Business Week. He and his wife and two young boys live just down the hill from the chairlifts at Snowbird Utah.