career management - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jul 2021
News

Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

winner is Amy Kadomatsu (MBA 1998), CEO of ComplySci, a leading RegTech company providing compliance solutions to more than 1,200 financial services and professional services companies globally. For the entrepreneur sector, the winner is Maneesha Ghiya (MBA 2005),... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2005
News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

he is a former Ironman triathlete who, egged on by his children, once toyed with the idea of auditioning for Survivor. Of his current job, Riley observes, “I’m not making a career of this, and there’s a certain freedom, even power, in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

01 Dec 2010
News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

behavior, the area where he has devoted his professional career at HBS. He also came to understand “how being an academic in many ways resembles being an entrepreneur, in that I have the opportunity to decide what ideas to pursue.”... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment. After a few fits and starts... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

business. And then would be responsible for executing, meeting and reporting out.” SEPTEMBER 11 Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), a managing partner of the Boston Celtics, recently helped create Boston Celtics United for Social Change, a $25... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

and HBS professor Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational layer. F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No... View Details

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

was very different when you started your first business in 2000. And I wonder if you can talk about your career evolution—how your professional experience sort of offered you a perspective on the ideas that you elaborate on in the book?... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

important and contentious subjects where intellectual breakthroughs are possible. 1. Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an area in which business historians have made important contributions, but in which most of the recent conceptual work has been done by... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

post-doctoral fellows Courtney Purrington and Kim Eric Bettcher. In their working paper, The American CEO in the Twentieth Century: Demography and Career Path, they chronicle the evolution of the CEO title, citing its first official use... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

interplay between men and women in a number of different organizations, and I tried to write something that would derive examples from all those organizations, as I've managed to do in subsequent big projects. But in talking with a good... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993... View Details

12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

for five years before moving over to Xerox in 1978. “I like to learn,” Barron has said. “And I like to do.” That straightforward philosophy led to a multifaceted, 21-year career at Xerox, where she held senior leadership roles in the... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) by New York Governor George Pataki. For Whitehead, this may be one of the most challenging assignments in a remarkable career in which he has served as cochairman of Goldman Sachs, deputy secretary... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

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