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Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

MBA students can engage in a wide variety of career development programs that support their social impact career pathways. These programs cross multiple sectors and provide the opportunity to tailor one's... View Details

30 Dec 2010
News

Four New Year's Resolutions to Fast Track Your Career

24 Nov 2014
News

The Real Reasons Why Women's Careers Stall Aftere Parenthood

03 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Springing Forward on Social Enterprise Career Paths

exploring options, spring is when many of those options come to life. Here are a few of the ways students have been springing forward on their social enterprise career paths: In late April, we held the Finale of the HBS New Venture... View Details

14 Dec 2010
News

A Career Focused on Innovation and Manufacturing

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 22 Jan 2025 Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) Paige Arnof-Fenn Author Alumni tag All Industries All Locations Alumni Student... View Details

02 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Preparing for a career in investment banking

Besides, there were better times to go into banking, or so people say. The first was checking out my actual possibility of getting a job in the US as a foreigner. Needless to say, Career & Professional Development reached out to the... View Details

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

career path. Introversion and the case method The case method forces you to think on your feet and puts you in the spotlight. This can be an uncomfortable experience for those who are naturally... View Details

02 Jun 2025
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HBS Alumni Career Video | Nicole Ledoux (MBA 2008)

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,... View Details

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

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

schools require future doctors to study cadavers for the purpose of gaining experience with actual human anatomy. This helps ensure they will know what they're doing when it comes time to treat and save the lives of real patients.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

2014
Article

In Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization

By: Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski

Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the identities of adolescents and young adults also influence their subsequent career choices. Early work experiences are key among these forces. Recognizing this, youth service programs have emerged worldwide with the hope of... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Identity; Socialization; Youth; Youth Service Programs; Identity; Mission and Purpose; Age; Personal Development and Career; Service Industry; Europe

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17 Jun 2025
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Balancing Career Stability with Creative Pursuits with Jeff Roslund (MBA 2013)

Learn about the career resources available to HBS alumni through HBS Career & Professional Development With a background in materials and biomedical engineering, I hoped that Harvard Business School... View Details

20 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals

Think About Your Next and Last Job(s) The first step in transition is to assess what’s out there. I recommend veterans to research potential career paths extensively before determining what education or training View Details

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Video Blog: My Experience in the Joint MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Program

perspective on what's been good and what some of the challenges are with the MS/MBA Program is interesting and helpful, especially if you're thinking about applying. I definitely think it's been a great experience both from the types of... View Details

09 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Career Choices for the Class of 2017

focus on opportunities where they can make an immediate impact, whether at a large multinational or an early stage startup. In addition, we saw that over 50% of our students received the offer they ultimately accepted coming to them after... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Oct 2017
News

Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

neither of them understood what I needed to do to prepare for a career in investment banking, tech, consulting, etc.,” Rice observes. “So, despite having a good academic record and compelling leadership story outside the classroom, I... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

10 Mar 2021
News

Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire

The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew senior urged his daughter to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investing; leadership; diversity; career experience; higher education; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

In 2015, Steve Kloeblen retired and thought he was done with the corporate world. A graduate of HBS Executive Education’s General Management Program, Kloeblen had more than 30 years of experience with IBM, culminating with his transition... View Details

Keywords: Technology

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

lowlights What are 1-2 highlights from your experience? This could be a memory of your first big product launch, closing a hard funding round or even just that night that all hell broke loose and you fixed a hairy bug at 2 a.m. What made these View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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