Job Mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology

01 Jun 2024
News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

October 2018
Case

American Family Insurance and the Artificial Intelligence Opportunity

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

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Educators

11 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

School as an undergraduate chemical and biomolecular engineering student at the University of Maryland. She was accepted into the 2+2 program and set out after graduation to explore potential careers and build her skills. After a year and half as a Process Engineer at... View Details

Profile

Arthur Rock

with it a surge magical new hardware, software and services that lead directly to the current world of the Internet, powerful mobile devices and a hyper-connected globe where all knowledge is at our fingertips. “I was never 100 percent... View Details

23 Jun 2015
Blog Post

What is SVMP?

Josh works as a Regional Organizer for FWD.us – a tech advocacy firm that mobilizes the tech community to support policies that keep the American Dream achievable in the 21st century, starting with comprehensive immigration reform. Why... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

CLARK: "It's been a great job and an intense learning experience." In July, after ten years at the School’s helm, Dean Kim B. Clark stepped down to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University–Idaho. During Clark’s decade of... View Details

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

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

business community was swift and dramatic. Deutsche Bank froze the creation of 250 jobs in Cary. More than 100 business leaders, many from well-known companies, signed a letter to Gov. McCrory opposing the new state law. PayPal cancelled... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to get to net zero emissions by 2050. Achieving this goal is possible, but it will require nothing less than a national and international View Details

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

good at it. They don't put enough effort into the task. They subcontract much of the hard work, at least the most difficult job of winnowing candidates down to several, to headhunters. They often favor those applicants they know... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

Profile

Paris Wallace

with the help of a mobile app, and that number is growing.” By amassing hundreds of millions of data points from more than a million women entering data into Ovuline’s pregnancy and fertility apps, Ovuline is seeking to not only build a... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

courses on entrepreneurship and technology. He has built leading companies in the transition to the mobile and Internet economies. More recently he has been studying the development of AI and its likely social and business implications.... View Details

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

setting up their own digital service teams. That's a big win for us, and we're always trying to encourage people to take jobs in government and have government hire technologists. And the final thing is to turn this into a movement, and... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

entrepreneur.” Taking the plunge: “When I was deciding to leave my corporate career to start MLT, one of the biggest gifts my mother gave me was reminding me that if everything failed, I could always come home to the room I grew up in.” Mission-driven: “MLT accelerates... View Details

Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

aerospace industry where she led highly technical teams at The Boeing Company developing disruptive technologies to usher in the future of mobility and responsible innovation. The major focus of her work was on space exploration, product... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012

shift from her previous strengths to her new ambitions. At Path, a mobile application startup based in San Francisco, Cynthia joined as a business analyst, but during her five-year tenure, moved to design and product development, becoming... View Details

20 May 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

leave the firm in 2014. “I left without a job prepared to engage in a period of exploration and a long term job search. I knew I wanted to do something small, entrepreneurial, mission driven, and with great... View Details

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

in their life and 1 in 3 Americans having their first job experience in a restaurant. Restaurants have provided significant management and ownership opportunities for women and minorities. Restaurants are also big business. In 2024, US... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

My Pandemic Year

with using our mobile phones, folding our laundry, reading our cases for the next classes, or preparing a meal while still tuning into Zoom classes. Video Embed We also mastered the art of looking engaged on screen even when we were not.... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

doctorate, I started out as a biologist with an interest in biofuels,” he says. “Then I began working half-time on the science and half-time on business development. I discovered that building the narrative around the company’s products was the most interesting part of... View Details

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