career management - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2018
Teaching Note

Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 416-031, 416-032, 416-033, 416-034, 416-035, and 416-036. View Details

09 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

to be so close to the steel production process, and it provided valuable insight about what makes the process so challenging and yet high priority to decarbonize. Perhaps most interesting was the role that policy played in the outlook of steel decarbonization for the... View Details

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of the first book but takes the study of brand relationships outside of traditional realms by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

a controversial $25 million acquisition. Spinoffs followed, jobs and divisions were cut. Now, PE investments are relatively mainstream, representing 15 percent of assets under management by the end of 2023. Moonfare pioneers PE platform... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

a well-worn career path for his cohort at Trinity College, one of Sri Lanka’s most prestigious private high schools. It wasn’t a traditional high school experience, however; between the ages of 16 and 18, Mawilmada guesses he attended... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

a management consultant and author who is writing a book titled "ReSpiriting Work," notes, "Another important factor is the aging of the American population. The baby boomers are coming into their fifties, which is a natural time to start... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 Sep 2021
News

Back to School

helped him focus. After high school, Simmons majored in political science at Yale, then went to work on Wall Street. “I wasn’t as thoughtful about the kind of career I wanted when I graduated as I should have been,” he says of his first... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

Part of it is this unconscious bias. But we just need more women to feel comfortable writing checks.” Dan Morrell: Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) has spent much of her career as an entrepreneur and tech executive and was well aware of the... View Details

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management unit), he pointed out that none of these ideas was a business.... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

just seems like there's a lot going on in kind of this part of our life. Any advice in all your research that you've really gleaned from managing this moment in time for those of us who feel like we're at the peak busyness both of family... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Films HBS Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit More Baker Library Exhibits Baker Library Special Collections For nearly 50 years, African Americans on the HBS faculty have forged extraordinary careers that... View Details

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

availability and access to talent, financing sources, legal and regulatory environments, local culture, and exit markets. Career Focus: Global Entrepreneurship (GV) is a course for a variety of students. First, individuals potentially... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

saw—that's a ton of fun," he said. There was general agreement on this point, but land and buildings aren't always part of the equation when it comes to calculating the industry's appeal, added Vincent J. Constantini, founder and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

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Africa - Global Activities 2020

with a unique opportunity to support the career goals of our graduates. In pursuing their dreams, the recipients of this fellowship are making an important impact on the African continent. We are grateful to be able to support them in... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation

include a mechanical engineering degree from MIT and patented novel technologies for self-driving vehicles. “But I don’t want to just make an app that delivers Instacart items five seconds sooner. My career vision is to tackle difficult... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

decision to buck the industry standard and invest in employees. “Our business model gives employees a career path,” she says, noting that half of the company’s top managers started as sales associates. As... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 1998
News

Short Takes

universal participation later on," notes Austin. "Over 60 percent of the recent graduates in the 25Ð 29 age group are involved with nonprofits; toward the other end of the career - ages 55 and above - almost 90 percent are involved, and... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2003
News

Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus

his generosity. “Frank Batten’s remarkable career as an entrepreneur, chief executive officer, and philanthropist is an inspiration to us all,” Summers commented. “Through his extremely generous gift, he has set an example for others in... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank

05 Jul 2011
News

The Business of Champions

outstanding performance this year. One fan watching with particular interest was Ken Baumgartner (MBA ’02), investment director at Wellington Management in Boston. He along with Gord Kluzak (MBA ’98) is not only an HBS alum but also a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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