Mr. Ladd is a Partner in the firm’s Boston office and joined The Parthenon Group in 1997. He has consulted across a wide range of industries and focuses on strategic issues facing companies and schools in the U.S. education market.  He brings a perspective on strategy built on fourteen years of consulting across education and corporate clients in a variety of professional services and industries.  Mr. Ladd works extensively with education providers and also advises corporations in the professional services, information, and manufacturing industries. Mr. Ladd received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University. He received his M.B.A., with distinction, in 2003 from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was a Tuck Scholar. He serves on the boards of the National Dropout Prevention Network and The Landing School, an independent college in Arundel, Maine.