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15 Oct 2020
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4 Pieces of Career Advice It’s Okay to Ignore

11 Jul 2016
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Career Resources to Consider Before You Arrive at HBS

arriving on campus. Consider taking time to reflect on what you have and have not liked about your past experiences and spend time thinking about your five- to seven-year career vision after HBS. What is... View Details

04 Jun 2021
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5 Relationships You Need to Build a Successful Career

29 May 2019
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HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

Clubs News Clubs News A team from HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) hit the road in March with a goal of bringing career education and coaching services to alumni in 27 cities in the U.S. and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Apr 2017
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Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation

says: “My first act was all about GE, where I worked for 30 years, and my family. My second act is about the next generation. Fellowships are a great way of giving back, helping students, and supporting the industries you love.” Liu wanted to leave a legacy as he was... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club

writer - was altered by this particular program. "Helping fellow alumni go through a career transition has always been important to me, especially because I've been the beneficiary of so much support myself," says Loughran, who launched... View Details

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

20 May 2019
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Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics

passive: the opportunity came and I took it.” But as oil prices plummeted from $110/barrel to just $40, advancement opportunities dried up and Kenya’s career pathway became much less certain. Meanwhile, she embraced a new hobby to occupy... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

07 Sep 2022
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How to Build a Career in a New Industry

25 Mar 2022
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How to Make Progress on Your Long-Term Career Goals

18 Aug 2020
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How to Reimagine the Second Half of Your Career

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Supporting Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Beyond the classroom, our career development, field-based learning, and community engagement programs bring together students, alumni, and organizations to focus on real-world challenges. Leadership Fellows The Leadership Fellows program... View Details

07 Feb 2024
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Thriving with Disabilities: A Panel on Strategies for Recruitment and Career Success

08 Dec 2014
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Creating career paths for underserved young adults in Atlanta

Belinda Stubblefield (MBA 1989) is executive director of Year Up Atlanta, a nonprofit program founded by Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) that prepares students for success in professional careers and higher education. “We’re turning lives... View Details

19 Jun 2023
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How Do I Move Forward from a Career Setback?

June 2023
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Do Job Seekers Value Diversity Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment and Human Capital Disclosures

By: Jung Ho Choi, Joseph Pacelli, Kristina M. Rennekamp and Sorabh Tomar

We examine how information about the diversity of a potential employer's workforce affects individuals’ job-seeking behavior. We embed a field experiment in job recommendation emails from a leading career advice agency in the U.S. The experimental treatment involves... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Job Search; Employees; Corporate Disclosure

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11 Jun 2009
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Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

Keywords: by Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart

12 Nov 2021

How HBS Enhanced My Career as a Product Manager

Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting recent alumni who were Product Managers pre-HBS or transitioned to the PM role post HBS. Hear how their pre-MBA experiences prepared them for the HBS case method and allowed them... View Details

May 2024 (Revised February 2025)
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Choosing the Course of Passion: Brooke Boyarsky Pratt at knownwell

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Alexis Lefort

Brooke Boyarsky Pratt (HBS ’13) enjoyed considerable success in her early career, quickly climbing the ranks to associate partner at McKinsey, and later becoming an executive vice president at Berkadia, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company. Throughout these years,... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Career; Career Planning; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Identity; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Health Industry; United States

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16 Oct 2023
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Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

At the end of 2020—seven months after COVID-19 had sent the airline industry into a tailspin and five months after George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police provoked nationwide protests for racial justice—Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian was moved to take more action... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation