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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
narrative about themselves. How long will this take? It depends. Career changes take longer than transitioning between related jobs. “My general advice,” said Radtke, “is that it takes seventy meaningful... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
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
- 11 May 2017
- News
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
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Brigham Young, thinking that I should give back. Years later, I came out of my experience at Harvard empowered and determined to give back.” That thinking reshaped Frey’s career path, and, after a brief return to California, he left Cisco... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Feb 2021
- News
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 Apr 2002
- News
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
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
team. She envisioned a long career in the field but instead found herself in quasi-retirement at age 35. “Life has a way of getting in the way,” she notes. Melcher’s first child, Katie, struggled in preschool with learning disabilities,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
McCance First to Serve as Entrepreneur in Residence
addition to sitting in on a number of classroom discussions, McCance spoke at student club gatherings, served as an adviser on several field study projects, and left his door open to anyone who wanted to talk about the ups and downs of launching a company or a View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
Professor Myra Hart focuses her research on high-potential ventures, but the career challenges and opportunities of HBS women have also captured her attention. In 2001, she launched Charting Your Course, a View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
What’s Next for You?
At a fall reunion session titled “Downshifting Your Career or Just Changing Direction?” panelist Michael Jeans shared a startling World Health Organization prediction: In the United States today, those who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
extraordinary musical talent who neglects the deeper, spiritual part of himself in the excitement of pursuing his performance career of playing to large crowds. After a crisis of self-doubt, he returns to his grandfather's mountain cabin... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
rainbow of Xbox controllers, she wants to dig into Spencer’s warning. After all, she isn’t just working at Xbox—now she’s the company’s president. Yes, she faces inherent cultural challenges. She’s also facing business challenges, like how to increase market share and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
adoption of environmentally friendly technology. Little noticed in the headlines, however, was the change to IRS Section 45Q—a revision that experts believe is likely to make the US a technological leader in the still-nascent carbon... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
how it changed things for you. Switz: I was in a role as a vice president in a nonprofit and there was a lot of international travel required. And when I was trying to explain to the CEO, why I couldn't do as much international travel as... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Defining the field of cause-related marketing
After being diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30, Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA 1977) left a career in investment banking to launch the National Breast Cancer Coalition and changed the way organizations raise... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Matthew Ross (MBA 2022) Cofounder and CEO, Trove Health 2022–2023 Blavatnik Fellow Concept: Trove is building the world’s largest longitudinal database of patients and their health information across geographies... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
on their part made it financially possible for their bright and affable son to enter Cornell's premed program. But during his junior year, at the age of nineteen, Tatum decided to change his major to business management. "I just didn't... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
(OPM 30, 2001), former Immigration and Naturalization Service attorney and coauthor of How to Get a Green Card, now in its 12th edition “Know your motivation. Know what drives you to write and publish. You don’t have to want to change the... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- News
The Category Kingmaker
Krach began his career as the youngest-ever vice president of General Motors, at the age of 26. He was also the founder of GMF Robotics, a joint venture between GM and Fanuc. From there, Krach joined the founding team of Rasna... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
the candor and clear-sightedness that have characterized her career as a leader in the world of media. Jen Wong and Patrick McGinnis (photo by Stu Rosner) READ MORE Patrick McGinnis: So it’s been an incredible year for Reddit and for you.... View Details