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  • 2011
  • Book

Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
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  • 04 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Advice from a Career Switcher: The Value of Informational Conversations with Alumni

In the fall of 2019, Adam entered HBS in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program ready to test a career hypothesis. “I wanted to understand why we have climate change and what I can do to mitigate it,” Adam... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

When No News Isn’t Good News

might find that you’re on the right track, but you might also discover that you need to plan for a change somewhere down the line,” she notes. “What you discover will put you in a better position to chart your own View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; career consulting; career advice
  • 08 Dec 2021
  • Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) of OMERS Ventures and His Career Switch into Venture Capital

to move from Toronto, Canada to Maranello, Italy to join the Ferrari Product Development team and kick off his career in the automotive industry. However, this is not a story about Memme’s career designing... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
  • 12 Jun 2015
  • News

Powerful lessons from the careers of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs & Andy Grove

  • 06 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

technical background. I had very few friends and colleagues who had gone the MBA path, and yet, the more I talked to those friends, the more I realized that an MBA was the perfect fit for me as a next step.   As my reflection went on, I realized that a View Details
  • March 2018
  • Supplement

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (C): Raising Quality in a Healthcare Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Using digital and social media tools and lessons learned from prior change campaigns as a middle manager in a large biotech company, Sandra Brown continued in a new role in the quality division, engaging staff in a quality movement at the company. She had found a new... View Details
Keywords: Digital; Grassroots Movement; Managing Change; Career Path; Stakeholder Engagement; Engagement; Health Care Industry; Quality; Leading Change; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Social Media; Health Industry
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  • 05 Oct 2018
  • News

Will the Property Industry Change Before the Sea Level Does?

  • 2014
  • Other Unpublished Work

Nudging Physicians to Pursue Careers in Underserved Areas: A Case for Behavioral Economics

By: Joseph Lopez, Mona Singh, Nava Ashraf and Joel Weissman
Currently, more than 60 million Americans live in "Health Professional Shortage Areas." Unless policymakers can encourage more physicians to practice in medically under-resourced areas, an increased number of uninsured individuals newly able to obtain health insurance... View Details
Keywords: Access To Care; Health Economics; Health Reform; Minority Health; Disparities; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2019
  • News

HBS New Venture Competition Features World Changing Ideas

  • Web

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

"The course’s content and teaching method through case studies and practical examples was remarkable." Vishal Vyas Assistant Vice President at TTK Healthcare Limited Advance your career by learning to respond to external shifts, drive... View Details
  • Web

Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Professionals Entrepreneurs and Investors Explore how companies in various industries are adapting to and preparing for climate change and leverage those insights to inform your organization’s strategy. "I am early in my View Details
  • 20 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

Walking into Harvard Business School as friends, roommates, and colleagues in 2017, Henri Pierre-Jacques (MBA 2019) and Jarrid Tingle (MBA 2019) already knew each other well. What they didn’t know yet was how their angel syndicate, Harlem Capital, would grow, evolve,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

    Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates

    Abstract

    Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details

    • 01 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life

    that I was willing to hear and ready to answer the single question HBS has asked its community for generations:  “what do you want your life to be?” And as a response, I recently decided to leave my law firm to pursue a career in cancer... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2001
    • News

    Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change

    assistant to the chancellor of LSU. Buoyed by his academic and professional successes and inspired in part by the career of former Louisiana Governor Franklin D. (“Buddy”) Roemer (MBA 1971), he decided to apply to HBS. With characteristic... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

    business boot camp. Around the time of our last reunion, his extensive, twenty-year study of our class culminated in The New Rules, a book that not only documented our careers but also revealed the cataclysmic nature of the View Details
    Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
    • March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
    • Supplement

    OneTen at Delta Air Lines: Catalyzing Family-Sustaining Careers for Black Talent (C)

    By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
    In February 2023, Delta Air Lines (Delta) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ed Bastian, celebrated the airline’s OneTen partnership in a room full of Atlanta’s prominent business leaders, educators, and public servants in Atlanta, at a OneTen/Delta Launch Event. To support... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Community Relations; Race; Leading Change; Air Transportation Industry; United States; Atlanta
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    • 30 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting

    The Business and Environment Initiative is constantly impressed by the dedication of our alumni in confronting the climate change challenge. In an effort to share the breadth of work being done, we are capturing View Details
    • 31 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

    in 1978, climate change was a distant concern, if, indeed, any of us even considered the topic. This year, however, the existential threat came home. Climate scientists reported that July was the hottest month ever recorded and August's... View Details