career experience - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

not currently in the full-time workforce. Many of the women who chose to leave their professional careers had approached Clark during his recent visits with alumni groups. They told him they felt disconnected from business and from HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job

opportunity. How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs Women who are star performers on Wall Street tend to fare better than men after changing jobs. Why? They place greater emphasis than men on external business relationships and conduct better research on potential... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

own experiences and offered expertise as well as personal reflection on this all-too-common dilemma. Myra Hart a professor at Harvard Business School and an expert on gender in organizations, described her research and the outreach she's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

In his novel I Come as a Thief, Louis Auchincloss introduces us to Tony Lowder, a lawyer in his early forties. Tony and his wife have two children. He works for the New York office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, but his job is just a resting spot. Tony has... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development ‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview What do you think? What was the most difficult View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

You're a successful senior executive with 20, 25 years of experience under your belt. You've made your mark and stand just 1 or 2 rungs from the position of CEO. Now what? As faculty chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

June 2011
Teaching Note

Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman

Teaching Note for 808167. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Experience and Expertise; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Entrepreneurship; Telecommunications Industry

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March 2011
Article

The New Path to the C-Suite

By: Boris Groysberg, L. Kevin Kelly and Bryan MacDonald

Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business realities. Exactly what abilities do firms want in their leaders—now and in... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Leadership; Management Skills; Personal Development and Career

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29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

economists dispel any uncertainty about whether it’s a tenable career path—the data suggest that there might be more economists hired in tech companies than in policy schools in recent years. To lure an economist As competition for talent... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

extremely positive (they reaped significant benefits). According to BCG's CEO, Hans-Paul Bürkner, the process unleashed by these experiments "has proven not only to enhance work-life balance, making View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

to understand that employees on the favored side of a policy shift could experience anxiety or insecurity, even though it seems counterintuitive. "They know about those who are disfavored, but seldom do they recognize that those who are... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

September 2000 (Revised October 2002)
Background Note

Professional Services Module Seven: Becoming a Professional

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry

Discusses strategies for balancing private and professional life. View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Success; Work-Life Balance

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12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while serving... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

common tool in experimental economics, the dictator game has one player determining how to split an endowment between himself and another player.) The prediction bore out. In a series of experiments involving 154 participants, those... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

and other people with whom they have strong relationships and who take the time to understand them as individuals. With this support, they develop the strength, confidence, and self-awareness to gravitate toward paths that fit their passions and skills. As discussed... View Details

November 15, 2022
Article

Using Simulations to Upskill Employees

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Trond Aas, Alex Hunt and Huw Newton-Hill

Reskilling employees tops the agenda in many organizations, according to a LinkedIn report. Korn Ferry estimates an 85-million person talent shortage by 2030, and McKinsey likens the challenge to the shift from agricultural to manufacturing work that occurred in the... View Details

Keywords: Employee Engagement; Managing People; Talent Development; Training; Human Capital; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Retention; Personal Development and Career

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15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School assistant professor John Beshears. The piece is based on a field... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

retired." This led Illysa to comment, "One more reason we must choose not only our careers but our work places carefully: who do we want to become?" Heidi Olson wondered "if the change in hormones when gaining power is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Dec 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

bad behavior causes memories of those acts to gradually become less clear—a phenomenon they call “unethical amnesia.” Research Papers Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing This study in rural West... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

December 1981 (Revised February 2010)
Case

Mike Miller (A)

Mike Miller, Harvard MBA '78, resigned his first job out of HBS within six months because he believed his personal values and learning objectives could not be accommodated. Students may discuss the problems of anticipating corporate culture, learning the ropes,... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Values and Beliefs; Jobs and Positions; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics

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