Network Search - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

further investments in the newspaper, television, and radio realms, combining them all under the name Landmark in 1967. In 1982, amid considerable skepticism from industry experts, Batten created The Weather Channel, a 24-hour cable View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Winner of the 2019 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School. 2018 Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2018 Crowell Memorial Prize For the Best Paper on Quantitative Investing from PanAgora Asset Management for... View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated theories of competition in economics, the cooperative teamwork... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Harvard Business School

culminated in his role as COO, where he directed the historic merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand. After retiring from PwC, Brittain founded the executive search and consulting firm Professional Resources on Demand. A... View Details

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

organization that operate under a corporate umbrella. For example, Google Search is a classic transaction platform that connects end users to advertisers, and the Android operating system is a classic innovation platform that enables... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Career Coach

Hillary Mann

Professional Development resources to support students in achieving their unique career goals. As a career coach, Hillary partners with students to define their career vision and leverage job search strategies such as creatively... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Education; Entertainment / Media; Hospitality; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Real Estate; Retail; Social Enterprise; Sports; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship

December 1, 2022
Article

Which Connections Really Help You Find a Job?

By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Karthik Rajkumar, Guillaume Saint-Jacques, Erik Brynjolfsson and Sinan Aral

Experiments involving 20 million people generated a surprising finding: moderately weak connects — and not strong connections — are the most useful in finding a new job. To be more specific, the ties that are most helpful for finding new jobs tend to be moderately... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Job Search

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01 Jun 2001
News

Reunions Offer Job Search, Career Assistance

Services and author of The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job. Holding numerous seminars during reunion weekends, Gardella — with easel, flip chart, and Magic Marker at the ready — usually begins by reminding graduates that conducting a job View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Professional Services

Career Coach

Michelle Antonio

career goals and creating actionable job search strategies. Drawing upon her diverse career paths in MBA recruiting, consulting and marketing, Michelle offers career advice and perspective based on her 15 years of experience as a career... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Government

01 Mar 2005
News

Online Job Bank Debuts

SULLIVAN: “Searches can be made by industry, function, location, salary, and several other variables.” Building on the traditional strengths and advantages of alumni networking, a newly launched online Alumni Job Bank has upgraded the informal View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

experience enables Jill to fully appreciate the many challenges one faces throughout their career. Jill's coaching style is realistic, practical and applicable. She coaches people to strive for the optimal outcome and persist until desired results are achieved. Jill... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

New Face at Facebook

“It was the shot heard ’round Silicon Valley: Internet upstart Facebook, Inc. raided search giant Google, Inc. for a No. 2 executive it hoped would turn the social-networking Web site into a major moneymaker,” declared the Los Angeles... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

expanding their own data-gathering and crunching capabilities through advancements like sensor networks and sophisticated modeling software. What if cities could make use of all that data to better give residents what they need—for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

Career Coach

Kendall Borges

Combining her coach training at Harvard Business School and the Co-Active Training Institute, she helps clients define their career vision and act on it through developing a pitch, finding opportunities, identifying networks – and much... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

21 Mar 2019
News

Helping Veterans Build Careers

been so core to what I’ve done in my career after HBS and now at the foundation,” he says. At HBS, Goldenberg served as co-president—along with Brian Bechard (MBA 2003)—of the Armed Forces Alumni Association, from 2002 to 2003. Through that association, he became part... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

Career Coach

Anne Marie Checcone

navigating professional transitions, which include a switch from strategy consulting to product management, attaining high-impact and substantive fractional product management roles that balanced the demands of family and career, and a successful international job... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consulting

01 Sep 2003
News

Alumni Navigator Takes Off

Staying in touch with the School’s network of 65,000 graduates just got a lot easier. Directory search, the most popular feature on the Alumni Web site, now uses the same cutting-edge technology that powers View Details

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

01 Jun 2006
News

Getting on Board

corporate board consideration.” As you organize your campaign, Stautberg says, “It’s best to cast a wide net. Networking is essential,” she emphasizes. “Who knows you and respects your capabilities? If you have a positive relationship... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

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players, view the products and locate information on companies presenting at the shows. Trade Group: search and browse for trade shows and conferences. Conference Alerts: search for academic conferences by... View Details

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