Talent Development And Retention - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

the best of Silicon Valley’s tech talent to reimagine the delivery with Hollywood’s creatives to make the sizzle. “I have half of that equation,” Katzenberg says. Although Whitman completed his picture, he figured there was no way she... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

didn’t have a few months prior. One had lost her star software developer to a rival. This, Schultz thought, was the perfect framing: Take all of the historical entrepreneurs he was focusing on for his book View Details

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

your own, authentic way. Whatever your field or family structure, you will learn to cope with transitions at home and at work, deal with guilt and worry, negotiate for advancement View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Apr 2016
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The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

it. My preferred artistic medium is music—I played the piano and violin and sang competitively from age five through high school. I don’t have as much time for it anymore, but, growing up, it helped me to... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

operations, remotely disinfecting public buildings and hospitals. "The White Knight drones were in R&D for the last two years; we developed and manufactured them in the last... View Details

22 Nov 2024
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Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

classmates. The conversations usually spilled over into the hallway after the class ended. What’s the best advice you could give an incoming HBS student? Lean into your interests both inside and outside the classroom. You are surrounded... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival

business of The Beatles and how they were able to take their rights back, and how creatively prolific they were and commercially successful. It was the first time I thought,... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It

management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

example, input from our alumni community—in particular, members of the African American Alumni Association—was critical in helping us develop the Racial Equity Plan and will continue to be essential as we... View Details

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