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  • October 2009
  • Article

Making Time Off Predictable—and Required

By: Leslie Perlow and Jessica L. Porter
People in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead—and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to their BlackBerrys. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: Responsiveness breeds the need for more responsiveness. When people... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Work-Life Balance; Service Industry
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  • March 2021 (Revised October 2023)
  • Case

Mary Kay Ash: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case describes the rise of Mary Kay, the founder of the worldwide cosmetics company. As a young single mother, Mary Kay had to overcome many obstacles to start her business and guide it to success. Today, there are more than 3.5 million Mary Kay beauty consultants... View Details
Keywords: Business Start-ups; Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Business Startups; Work-Life Balance; Success; Religion; Family Business; Personal Development and Career; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    John C. Mulliken

    Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

    John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

    The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details
    • September 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    Cathy Benko: WINning at Deloitte (A)

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer
    Jim Quigley, CEO of Deloitte and Touche's consulting practice, asks senior partner Cathy Benko to lead Deloitte & Touche's much publicized Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women (WIN). Benko, already the Lead Client Service Partner on one of Deloitte's... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Leadership Development; Talent and Talent Management; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Consulting Industry; United States
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    • 18 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS

    After five years working in venture capital and private equity, Laura Little (MBA 2015) was eager to make a career change. With a budding interest in early-stage healthcare, Laura enrolled at HBS to pursue her passion. These days Laura is... View Details
    • 17 Sep 2015
    • Blog Post

    Why We Recruit: Innosight

    ambassadors, since they can speak to how HBS prepares you for a career at Innosight.    Give us your elevator pitch – what is the one thing students should know about working for you? We are a growth strategy View Details
    Keywords: Consulting
    • 18 Sep 2017
    • Blog Post

    Recruiting HBS MBA Students in 2017-2018

    As we look to a new school year, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your interest in our students and share some thoughts as the recruiting season begins. After almost 15 years in Career and Professional Development, there are a... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 07 Jul 2015
    • Blog Post

    From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again

    A native Miamian, HBS alum Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012) spent the early part of her career working as a Teach for America corps member in her hometown. Maxeme later went on to work in the New York City Mayor’s Office and the Bill and Melinda... View Details
    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

    goals for this summer? First and foremost, I want to leverage the skills I have acquired from consulting and my first year at HBS to help my team at CHAI increase the management capabilities of its programs. I also want to explore a View Details
    • 20 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports Corp.

    college basketball player at St. John’s University. He then pivoted his career path into investment banking, corporate strategy, and management consulting before circling back to the game he loves. Now at... View Details
    • 13 Jan 2020
    • Blog Post

    Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

    tech companies on digital and technology transformation with McKinsey and Company, and previously worked as an engineer deploying rapid prototyping devices for Intel and Apple. Yuval discusses his path to HBS, experience at Harvard Business School, and View Details
    • 23 Jul 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Transforming the Workplace for People with Disabilities

    Keywords: Re: Lakshmi Ramarajan; Consulting
    • 31 Aug 2021
    • Blog Post

    Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)

    The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details
    • Web

    PhD Programs - Doctoral

    PhD Programs The start of your PhD program launches your journey to a career in business academia. Students in our PhD programs are encouraged from day one to think of this experience as their first job in business academia—a training... View Details
    • 26 Apr 2022
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto

    wanted to be able to experiment and take career risks and HBS seemed to allow me to do that through the 2+2 program. The second reason I applied to HBS is because it felt like there was zero downside. In fact, the way I thought about it... View Details
    • August 2023
    • Case

    The Ethical Tightrope: When to Disclose the AI Shortcut

    By: David G. Fubini, William Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
    In this short vignette on ethics in consulting, John Child, a new Associate at a prestigious firm who is eager to impress, decides to use an AI tool to expedite his analysis and craft his presentation due to a short project timeframe. Feeling uneasy about his decision... View Details
    Keywords: Ethics; Personal Development and Career; Decisions; Consulting Industry
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    • 15 Oct 2014
    • Blog Post

    HBS Class of 2016

    essential to your organization. Your parameters can be tightly focused (targeting students with previous manufacturing experience hoping to pursue a career in Singapore) or broad (all students with View Details
    • 20 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

    What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2021, over 60 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that... View Details
    • Career Coach

    Ellen Harris

    (including those from ExEd leadership programs AMP,GMP, PLD) as well as those without traditional business backgrounds, especially people transitioning from military. With an unconventional 25+ year career path, Ellen especially likes to... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting; Consulting