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  • 12 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals

as in career. "Career decisions are life decisions," he says. "All the dimensions of your life will be part of your career decision-making; anything that impinges on your choices merits attention." Re-visioning the... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • News

You Should Consider Buying a Small Business. But When?

  • November 2016 (Revised April 2025)
  • Case

Lynda Bussgang's Stages

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Lynda Bussgang is getting ready for her 25th Harvard College reunion and for the first time she is actually looking forward to it. Unlike some of her classmates she has charted her own course to happiness. This path took her from musical theater, to non-profit work to... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Success
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  • 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 View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Government
  • 21 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

worked in India in broadcast media. I spent my second summer in New York in bankruptcy and restructuring. There is always a club, activity, or a group of friends at either school that I can reach out to. The diversity is most apparent when I see that alums from the... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

together. Building on the friendship they formed at HBS, their MBAs, and learnings from their careers to date, Schoonbeek and van Poecke founded Key ESG, a software solution that helps businesses measure, manage, and report Environmental,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology
  • January 15, 2015
  • Article

Surviving in a Family Business When You're Not Part of the Family

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Navigating office politics in a family-owned business can be challenging for non-family executives. Based on experience with various business families worldwide, this article offers strategies for success:

Play in your room: Non-family executives should... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Employees; Problems and Challenges; Talent and Talent Management
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  • July 2024
  • Article

A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior

By: Katherine B. Coffman, Paola Ugalde Araya and Basit Zafar
Many decisions—such as what educational or career path to pursue—are dynamic in nature, with individuals receiving feedback at one point in time and making decisions later. Using a controlled experiment, with two sessions one week apart, we analyze the dynamic effects... View Details
Keywords: Feedback; Beliefs; Stereotypes; Self-assessment; Gender Gap; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Perception; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 30 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

can mean a lot of things, but which I came to define as very sharp, very passionate, and very kind. Both before and during my time at Google, I had casually considered an MBA. I was a few more years into my career than most MBA... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

together. Building on the friendship they formed at HBS, their MBAs, and learnings from their careers to date, Schoonbeek and van Poecke founded Key ESG, a software solution that helps businesses measure, manage, and report Environmental,... View Details
  • Career Coach

Sarah Bua

public sector, health care consulting, venture capital and new business creation.  Sarah helps her coachees identify, strategize a path towards, achieve and sustain their unique career visions.  Her skills... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Health Care; Clean Technology; Energy
  • December 2023
  • Case

Gabriela Santana Goldstein

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Gabriela Santana Goldstein was pursuing her passion, working as the Head of Business for a telehealth startup, when her father went into sudden cardiac arrest and family duty called. The case discusses Goldstein’s difficult decision to leave her dream job, and her path... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Decisions; Health Industry; United States; Boston; New York (city, NY)
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  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Blog Post

A New Way to Recruit

We set out to democratize career-related knowledge, so that anyone could understand whether a given career path was right for them, how to successfully pursue that path, and how those efforts could affect... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory

By: Christopher Marquis and Andras Tilcsik
The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual. This... View Details
Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure
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    Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel Theory

    The concept of imprinting has attracted considerable interest in numerous fields—including organizational ecology, institutional theory, network analysis, and career research—and has been applied at several levels of analysis, from the industry to the individual.... View Details

    • Career Coach

    Veni Arora

    Veni worked in private equity and management consulting before HBS and spent her summer at eBay working with the Product team. While looking for her summer internship, she spent time evaluating multiple career View Details
    • 23 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Sebastian Forero (MBA 2025)

    related to MBA Admissions, alumni engagement, career development, and more to advocate for and empower the Latino community on campus and beyond. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked LASO members to share what being Latino at HBS... View Details
    • 14 Aug 2023
    • Blog Post

    Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

    facilitate positive social impact. Thus, I pursued a program that allowed me to learn expansively and ultimately identify a career path that would allow me to combine my passions and purpose. How have you... View Details
    • 10 May 2019
    • Blog Post

    Advice for Mothers Pursuing an MBA

    other mothers on campus. Every student can ask for help on writing techniques to prepare for the exams, career coaching, and more. Those forms of support can be particularly necessary for mothers and parents.  If you have the luxury of... View Details
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    Cici Xie

    visa, Cici can provide insights into how these industries recruit, differences amongst various investing styles, what the job experience will look like, and how to choose your career path to meet your... View Details