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Career Coach

Carole Carlson

Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

01 Dec 2007
News

All Aboard for Board Members

Since Alumni Career Services launched its board of directors résumé database a year ago, it has grown to more than 1,000 names of HBS graduates interested in serving on public or private boards. Initially, only executive View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Manufacturing; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology

01 Dec 2006
News

New on the Web at Alumni Career Services

interested alumni post résumés and online profiles, their information will be made available to executive search firms and organizations looking for board candidates. “These... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

search that a firm needs in order to cope with interactions among strategic decisions. Cases & Course MaterialsActis: January 2008 Harvard Business School Case 808-130 Paul Feltcher, the CEO of Actis,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Rocio Parra

speakers, reinforced my choice to enter a career in marketing. I explored different career paths, such as returning to strategy consulting, entering the luxury goods or retail spaces. However, I learned that many executives in other... View Details

Keywords: Retail

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Angel investors

Filter type in Firm Type Select Firm Type from the list of options, select Include, check off Angel Group, and click Done Add in other criteria as desired CB Insights Mouse over View Details

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Zihan Lin

specific goals "My search was specific," says Zi. "I wanted a multinational, medical-device firm that was ramping up operations in China and/or Southeast Asia." He found that View Details

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Private wealth management

Where can I find statistics and information on private wealth management firms? For an overview on private wealth management firms use FirstHand(Vault) (registration required). Private Wealth... View Details

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

marginal benefit of higher capital requirements related to this channel significantly exceeds the marginal cost, indicating that U.S. capital requirements have been sub-optimally low. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2576277 Design of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

selecting references, and creating a résumé, to planning and executing a search campaign, interviewing techniques, and negotiating job offers. An extensive bibliography includes both publications and Web... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

Web

Timothy C. Draper | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem... View Details

Washington A. Burpee

Burpee began selling purebred fowl by mail order when he founded his own firm in 1878. Within two years, the seeds that he had included as supplements in the catalog became so popular that he fully converted his business to their sale. He... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

his or her job but does not help others. Or one asks for help and is sometimes even abrasive when asked to do something for the company that does not benefit him or her directly. The problem with these people is that they can poison the organization—they set a bad... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

publishing) are likely to reshape the structure of demand for executive development. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51662 The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1999
News

New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

Two years ago, Thomas J. Michalak, executive director of Baker Library, got a phone call from a Boston-area HBS alumnus. The graduate was researching a management project and wanted online access to the School's extensive range of... View Details

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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details

04 Oct 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

Wasserman. "After interviewing seven or eight founders, I was struck by the fact that a far more critical moment in a founder's life is when that person is told he can no longer lead the company he started." With the help of McCance, chairman of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

they are at the mercy of big companies. Labor Markets. In spite of emerging markets' large populations, multinationals have trouble recruiting managers and other skilled workers because the quality of talent is hard to ascertain. There are relatively few View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

personalization tools to create numerous reports. You can even set up alerts for new company or firm developments and transactions. LSEG Workspace PE data includes investments, portfolio company and View Details

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