Career - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2025
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Virtual Fireside Chat: Planning for a Successful Career Break and Return

28 Nov 2017

Career and Professional Development Overview Webinar

This webinar will provide an overview of the Career and Professional Development resources available to HBS MBA students. View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 10 Apr 2025
Webinars: Career

Virtual Fireside Chat: Planning for a Successful Career Break and Return

Whether you're actively considering a break or simply want to be prepared for the unexpected, this conversation will provide valuable tools and strategies for navigating your career with confidence. View Details

06 Sep 2017
News

Class Matters: The Role of Social Class in High-Achieving Women's Career Narratives

11 Mar 2016
Blog Post

2+2 Admit Experiments with Career Options

found myself considering consulting. Knowing that I had been accepted in the 2+2 Program, however, gave me the confidence to speak with my career counselor about other potential opportunities. Ultimately, I took a summer sabbatical to... View Details

24 Sep 2008
Working Paper Summaries

CEO and CFO Career Penalties to Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts

Keywords: by Rick Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal & Suraj Srinivasan

2000
Other Unpublished Work

Career Concerns and Staged Investment: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry

By: Malcolm Baker

I develop a model in which career concerns lead to inefficient reinvestment decisions. Managers have incentives to inflate interim returns by continuing bad projects and delaying write-offs. In the venture capital industry, the syndication of follow-on investments can... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Valuation; Venture Capital; Investment; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Quality

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May 2003 (Revised March 2006)
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Carol Fishman Cohen: Professional Career Reentry (B)

By: Myra M. Hart, Robin J. Ely and Susan Wojewoda

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships

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January 2024
Case

Mariam Braimah: Designing a Career in Tech

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley Bowles and Michael Norris

In 2022, Mariam Braimah, a digital designer working at Netflix, is considering the next move in her career. She has spent several years at Netflix, and in her spare time, using her savings, has founded a design-focused fellowship program and a consumer insights company... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; Nigeria; United States; New York (city, NY); San Francisco

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18 Nov 2014
News

It’s Not Your Kids Holding Your Career Back. It’s Your Husband.

01 Nov 2017
News

In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

01 Oct 2001
News

HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions

Just before the MBA reunions last spring, a group of women graduates met for a new program that provided a special opportunity to discuss their business and leadership goals in the broader context of their lives. Titled Charting Your Course: Alumnae View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Professional Services

Oct 08 2019
Testimonial

Adding New Skills to a Successful Career

02 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Preparing for a career in investment banking

Besides, there were better times to go into banking, or so people say. The first was checking out my actual possibility of getting a job in the US as a foreigner. Needless to say, Career & Professional Development reached out to the... View Details

July 2018
Teaching Note

Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail

By: Ryan Raffaelli

In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details