career changes - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2005
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Taking Flight

childhood. Thirty years later, however, the bird (a palm warbler) rejuvenated Thayer’s interest — and would eventually lead to a career shift. When that palm warbler flew into his life, Thayer was president of Gateway Investment Advisers.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2006
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The Producers

represents a growing trend or an unsettling blip, but one thing is certain: As many changes as there have been in the film industry, more are sure to come as technology alters the way movies are made and how we watch them. The movies are... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

your hands.” The “aha” moment: A 2010 sabbatical to sail with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, in an activist campaign against whale hunting in Antarctica. “I don’t think I intended to change careers... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Jan 2017
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Finding a Path out of Poverty

Photos by Bridget Corke “Pleased, but not satisfied.” That’s how Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) describes the drive that helped him to overcome homelessness as a young man in South Africa, get an education, and build a successful career... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2005
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The Dark Side

About a year ago, David Yelland (AMP 164, 2003) left the editorship of the British tabloid The Sun to join the PR firm Weber Shandwick (WS). It’s a familiar career switch that PR-averse journalists disparage as going over to “the dark... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work

the workforce-management platform that Auerbach cofounded in 2016. Earlier in her career as a consultant she had seen the effects of inflexible workplaces. Around her, many of her top women colleagues were dropping out of the workforce... View Details

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

junior year represented a significant change in my life, because for the first time in 10 years I was not involved in football practices,” he recalls. Other immediate changes included joining the Kansas... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that accompany a View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

01 Dec 2016
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The Future of Books

Above: photo by Brian Doben You’ve had a varied career in book publishing. What are some of the biggest changes you have seen in your 15 years in the industry? Milena Alberti: Like so many media categories,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 May 2015
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Getting Ready for Success

another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services

16 Oct 2017
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Take Time to Serve Others

Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs.... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

05 May 2022
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Like-Minded

Miwa Seki (left) and Yumiko Murakami Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui shared the same birthday month and year, so they started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic: The women had... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera

and COO of Rohm and Haas, the largest specialty chemicals company in the United States. The longtime Philadelphia resident, who started his forty-year career at Rohm and Haas as an engineer, says he was ready for retirement but felt no... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Expanding Horizons

his country, India, and more broadly, the world at large. “HBS changed my career direction and broadened my horizons,” he says. “I was going into the health care sector, but a summer in equity capital... View Details

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

clinician.” But if a business career was Fisher’s new goal, and if she was going to become a leader, she soon realized that she needed a more formal education than that she had received in visiting the startups financed by her father. In... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

18 Feb 2021
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Jumping In, Fighting Bias

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn Growing up in suburban Chicago, Sumaiya Balbale (MBA 2009) and her Indian immigrant parents didn’t see many other Muslims. At school she was teased and bullied—an experience that no doubt shaped her as she moved from a history... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Clubs: Capital Improvements

president and COO of global private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Youngkin, the recipient of the club’s first alumni achievement award, participated in a panel discussion on the changing face of business in DC with Jean Case, CEO of the... View Details