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  • Career Coach

Becca Carnahan

Becca (HGSE, '13) is a career coach, writer, and entrepreneur passionate about helping students and alumni find fulfillment and joy in their work. She spent 12 years at Harvard Business School, most recently as Associate Director, Recruiting Operations in Career &... View Details
Keywords: Education; Publishing / Communications / Advertising
  • October 2023
  • Supplement

Making Progress at Progress Software (B)

By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias; Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Technology Industry; United States; Bulgaria
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Will I Stay or Will I Go?: Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L Milkman
We develop an integrated theory of the social identity mechanisms linking workgroup sex and race composition across levels with individual turnover. Building on social identity research, we theorize that social cohesion (Tyler, 1999; Hogg and Terry, 2000) and social... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Ethnicity; Race; Groups and Teams; Identity; Resignation and Termination; Gender; Cooperation
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  • 11 Apr 2014
  • Blog Post

HBS in San Francisco: Get a Recap on West Coast Recruiting

In March, HBS ventured to the Bay Area to host a series of recruiting and networking focused events. In response to our students’ enthusiasm towards exploring opportunities on the West Coast, HBS Career & Professional View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology
  • November 2009
  • Case

METRO Cash & Carry in China, 2008

By: Tarun Khanna
In April 2008, the country head for METRO AG's Cash & Carry wholesaling operations is considering the most appropriate model for expansion in China, where METRO has operated stores for small business professionals for eight years. In addition, METRO is actively... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Emerging Markets; Distribution Channels; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Retail Industry; China
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  • 26 Mar 2015
  • News

A wake-up call for tomorrow's top 1 percent: rebuild America's middle class

  • 16 May 2014
  • Blog Post

Leveraging Big Data to Improve Recruiting

Organizations everywhere are turning to Big Data to make smarter decisions. But how can you leverage it to improve the recruiting process? As the Assistant Director of Market Intelligence within the Career & Professional View Details

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • 29 Nov 2018
    • Blog Post

    "There's No Substitute for Finding the Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

    James says, "A lot of the personal development lessons we learned from professors, or among our peer groups and counselors, helped me look at my core motivations and make the right choices – after making a few wrong ones. I would've... View Details
    • 23 Apr 2019
    • Blog Post

    Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books

    HBS Career & Professional Development is excited to share with you some of our favorite books from the Harvard community that will help you propel your career forward. Covering topics including authentic... View Details
    • 15 Oct 2014
    • Blog Post

    HBS Class of 2016

    Fall is such an enjoyable time of year at HBS - the campus is buzzing with excitement as the new school year begins. Over the past month, our office of Career and Professional Development has gotten to know... View Details
    • 03 May 2016
    • Blog Post

    Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Renee Pappastratis

    Tell us about your role at HBS. As a Recruiting Relations Manager in Career and Professional Development, I engage daily with organizations looking to develop and refine their recruiting strategy at HBS. The... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail
    • 20 Sep 2010
    • News

    RX for Change

    • 20 Oct 2016
    • Blog Post

    An Interview with Associate Director, Phillip Andrews

    What did you do before you came to CPD? Before I joined the Career & Professional Development (CPD) team, I spent two years as a case researcher working with faculty to View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • September 2015 (Revised March 2016)
    • Case

    Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

    By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joseph Fuller and Michael Roberts
    The case provides a vehicle for teaching about both corporate intrapreneurship and the use of lean startup methods. It tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business... View Details
    Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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    • 13 Jan 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

    to generate fresh momentum and bring in independent perspectives. It is easy to decipher the purpose. The team in action, after all, is the team portraying the downturn. But how effective is Big C change in reality? The answer may lie in View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
    • 25 Nov 2014
    • Blog Post

    Checking out Dublin's Tech Scene

    Career & Professional Development recently spent a week in Dublin at the 4th annual Web Summit. It was evident from the attendance and energy at the conference that the technology and entrepreneurship... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

    as the result of exporting jobs to China, India, and other developing economies. Still others argued that the issue relates to end objectives, not the means, of achieving greater productivity. Jim Noon characterized the first point of... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • June 1996 (Revised November 1996)
    • Background Note

    Economic Gains from Trade: Comparative Advantage

    By: Robert E. Kennedy and Nancy F. Koehn
    How nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David Ricardo formally developed the theory of comparative advantage, it has become one of the principles most widely... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Microeconomics; Trade; Cost Management; Business and Government Relations
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Pros vs Joes: Agent Pricing Behavior in the Sharing Economy

    By: Jun Li, Antonio Moreno and Dennis J. Zhang
    One of the major differences between markets that follow a “sharing economy” paradigm and traditional two-sided markets is that the supply side in the sharing economy often includes individual nonprofessional decision makers, in addition to firms and professional... View Details
    Keywords: Two-sided Market; Sharing Economy; Behavioral Economics; Revenue Management; Hospitality; Two-Sided Platforms; Price; Behavior; Experience and Expertise
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