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17 Apr 2025
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Career and Workplace | Working Knowledge

01 Sep 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

(photos courtesy of Sunny Stroeer) “When your Monday morning looked like this you know it’s going to be a good week,” Suzanne “Sunny” Stroeer (MBA 2011) wrote on Instagram recently. Her view: Sunrise from the snowy summit of Torreys Peak in Colorado, more than 14,000... View Details

Keywords: April White

September 2008 (Revised March 2009)
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Traversing a Career Path: Pat Fili-Krushel (B)

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Deborah M. Kolb and Cailin B. Hammer

Pat Fili-Krushel has agreed to take on the job of first executive vice president of administration for AOL Time Warner, leading corporate human resources, internal communications, real estate and facilities, and other administrative roles for the combined company. She... View Details

Keywords: Conflict Management; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States

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September–October 2022
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Seeking Purity, Avoiding Pollution: Strategies for Moral Career Building

By: Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan

This study builds theory on how people construct moral careers. Analyzing interviews with 102 journalists, we show how people build moral careers by seeking jobs that allow them to fulfill both the institution’s moral obligations and their own material aims. We... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Moral Sensibility

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08 May 2025
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HBS Alumni Career Video | Sidhant Misra (MBA 2020)

22 Jun 2022
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Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

When people contemplate a career change, astute thinking alone won’t necessarily take them in the right direction. Instead, when career changes and other huge life-changing experiences are at stake, people... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

6:30 PM – 9 PM IST, 20 Apr 2015

New Delhi Alumni: Determine Your Career Elements & Connect with HBS

Join members of HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) and fellow HBS alumni to network and gain insight on key HBS innovations and initiatives. Participate in an interactive career visioning exercise led by Professor Tim Butler to discover what matters most in... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Career Services Steps Up Alumni Support

Last fall, as world economies began to tremble from the collapse of the financial sector, HBS Alumni Career Services enhanced its suite of career offerings for alumni. “We anticipated an increase in the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

04 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy

resources have been most helpful to you in exploring your career options? There are so many different resources at HBS, from the faculty and classes to fellow students, CPD, and BEI. From the beginning of my RC year, I got involved in... View Details

February 1990
Teaching Note

Self-Assessment and Career Development, Instructor's Note

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Personal Development and Career

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6 PM – 8 PM CET, 26 Feb 2015

London Alumni: Determine Your Career Elements & Connect with HBS

Join members of HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) and fellow HBS alumni to network, participate in a professional development exercise to determine your essential career elements, and gain insight on key HBS innovations and initiatives. View Details

June 2020
Case

Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)

By: Laura Huang, Elizabeth Jiang and Brandon Yu

Career Karma is a startup focused on helping individuals looking to transition careers into computer engineering roles or similar fields by preparing them for formal technical training programs, or “coding bootcamps,” that would lead to a successful career pivot upon... View Details

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April 2007
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Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers (TN)

By: D. Quinn Mills and Carole Winkler

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Leadership

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6 PM – 8:30 PM +04, 15 Apr 2015

Dubai Alumni: Determine Your Career Elements & Connect with HBS

On April 15th at the Capital Club in Dubai, Professor Tim Butler, Senior Fellow and Director of Career Development Programs and Lauren Murphy, Director of Career & Professional Development, will share resources available to you and guide you through a quick exercise to... View Details

January 2005
Case

Building Career Foundations: Kevin Williams (B)

Presents an interview with this HBS alumnus about the success of his Chancellor Beacon Academies and his life in Miami. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Miami

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20 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability and addressing the... View Details