career changes - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

bring along more successful people, and you’ll have more career endurance. Thirty-three million Americans have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021. What can good leaders do to make sure that workers are engaged and happy? The Great... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

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Hiroshi Mikitani

When Hiroshi Mikitani decided, at age 31, to leave a good job at the Industrial Bank of Japan in Tokyo to start a company, he raised more than a few eyebrows. In Japanese culture, where the group is favored above the individual, entrepreneurship is a rare View Details

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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

Financial Aid for a quick assessment to determine your eligibility and process or contact finaid@hbs.edu for more information. Enrollment: Limited to 45 MBA students (due to the nature of IFCs, auditing is not permitted) Career Focus This... View Details

01 Jan 2003
News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

to lymphoma and later as a practicing physician in his native Switzerland. Both his years in medicine and the business career that followed have focused on helping people. So when researchers at Novartis came up with a drug that promised... View Details

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

work in your lab and expecting her to spend her career there, you now hire more mid-career professionals who bring a deeper, richer human and social capital to your firm. It changes the question of how do I... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

07 Apr 2021
News

Road Work

Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of Houlihan Lokey at the age of 28. Houlihan Lokey would go on to... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

returning four days later. He didn’t reach Katahdin—his diary offers no explanation for the change of plans—but he would forever view the trip as his “emancipation.” Moore thrived on the freedom. A few years later, while attending... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

07 Sep 2021
News

Green House

houses do, which makes more traditional and elaborate creations a challenge. Harper came to energy-efficiency development after a 20-year career in the financial industry. “As I contemplated what I wanted to do for the second half of my... View Details

14 May 2014
News

(Re)moving the Needle

associated with the discomfort of conventional self-injections. "We're not moving the needle, we're removing the needle," he adds, with a laugh. Anquetil is a serial entrepreneur with a special interest in medical technology. Born and raised in Paris, he has had a... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; medical technology; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Sep 2004
News

Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

casualties. I became secretary of his General Staff and was with him for D-Day, his next triumph, when the Third Army broke through on four fronts in France and raced across Europe. In my book General Patton’s Timeless Leadership Principles: Your Practical Guide for a... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020

applicants, regardless of their financial circumstances, is a longstanding goal of the School. The prospect of entering or returning to the workforce with high levels of education debt can deter strong MBA candidates from applying to HBS and restrict their View Details

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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019

The Year in Review The Year in Review While the rhythm of the academic year is familiar, with some activities unfolding with predictable regularity, other aspects of the School are continually refreshed and reimagined. Milestones like anniversaries offer one backdrop... View Details

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

never experienced one like this before. [His career until now] has been up, up and away, and here he is, in his early 30s, all of a sudden confronting something. And the question is, when will he acknowledge that he didn't handle this... View Details

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

Overall, those who accepted smaller portions did not compensate by ordering more calories in their entrées, and the total calories served to them were, on average, reduced by more than 200. We also found that accepting the downsizing offer did not View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

that owns 53 Planet Fitness Health Clubs, has to choose: continue in private equity or shift his career to managing and growing the health clubs. An African-American graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, Simmons... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

Abstract—Preparing students for the consequential ethical decisions that they will face in their careers is among the most difficult tasks of management education. I describe some of these challenges based on my book Why They Do It:... View Details