Career Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

pad, we are seeing people who want to take a pause in their already accomplished careers so that they can develop personalized action plans to take back to their organizations," Simons comments.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

16 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

LinkedIn. Follow Jeffrey Bussgang on LinkedIn to read more of his posts. About the Author Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as co-founder and general partner at Flybridge Capital... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while serving... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

January 1983 (Revised July 2007)
Case

Neill Hance

Neill Hance takes advantage of all available information and resources to insure a smooth entry into a culture--an entry that would have normally been rather difficult to deal with because of stereotyping and perceived threat. View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Planning; Prejudice and Bias

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06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

productivity always hold a fascination for us. But the last few weeks seem to have brought an unusual flow of material on the subject across my desk. One question this raises is, "Why now?" In short order, I am encouraged by Tony Schwartz to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

is a wonderful tool, but it is not productive to sit in a room and try to figure out where you want to be in 10 or 20 years. Instead, think about what you can do in the next year or two to broaden your learning, experiences, and choices. View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

full-blown crises. We explore the reasons—cognitive, organizational, and political—why predictable surprises happen and we develop a framework to help leaders recognize, prioritize, and mobilize to avoid them. Once that is done, I'm View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

January 1982 (Revised July 2007)
Case

Kirk Stone (A)

Kirk Stone ran into an organization "land mine" when he joined the company. The teaching objective is to understand better how Kirk could have anticipated the company culture and other realities. View Details

Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Planning

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27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked. We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make... View Details

16 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, TooRituals help couples build relationships. Can they help build businesses too? (12,746 visits) Walmart's Workforce of the FutureA case study explores Walmart's plans for its workforce of the future.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

Think About Limits? To achieve multifaceted, lasting success in a world of moving targets, it is not enough to soberly reject celebrity as the only leadership style. You have to understand the baseline assumptions behind celebrity, and how deeply they undermine the way... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

as a sales issue.” Planning and hiring To reap any of these benefits companies must develop links between the C-suite and the customer-facing side of the business. In his article, Cespedes offers two examples of how this can be done:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

competitive, and yet Fresco's attention was diverted by investments in technology and Web presence, as well as by acquisitions meant to diversify the company's portfolio. After the carmaker slid into a protracted liquidity crisis, Fresco and his board supported a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

are beyond the farmgate. Embrapa's director of technology transfer must develop a plan to encourage adoption. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507019 Ethics: A Basic Framework Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of her masculine, aggressive style in the classroom. As she begins to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

Finally, in contrast with some cross-country analyses, ethnic and caste polarization, land inequality, and political participation are not significantly associated with violence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-065.pdf Demographics, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

system testing, and system integration testing. Personal Motivation Specialisterne's founder, Thorkil Sonne, launched the company in 2004 following a high-level career in telecommunications IT. (Specialisterne is Danish for "the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

within an organization to be effective leaders and to accomplish their personal goals. Executives are urged to examine their lives to discover major themes, interests, and values, using that examination to create a short statement of individual purpose which is then... View Details