Life Experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Finding Pride

their names: My friends Jeff Eisberg (MBA 1979), one of our founding members; Bart Rubenstein (MBA 1979); Raul Companioni (MBA 1980); Bob Anderson (MBA 1982); Jim Savage (MBA 1977); Paul Williamson (MBA 1983); and Phil Kanner, life... View Details

05 Oct 2021
Blog Post

First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders

alumni-founded e-commerce startup for his HBS internship. Yet what might seem like a direct entrepreneurial path was anything but. Westphal’s life and career have crossed country lines, cultures, and industries, and continue to lead him... View Details

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

an HBS alumnus in Vienna, Georg Kasperkovitz (HBS MBA 1999), and decided to highlight Slovakia's experience when we realized that the flat tax was one of the hot topics. Meanwhile, we were witnessing "reform fatigue" within the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating our Student Fathers

Today and every day, we celebrate our student parents who balance academic requirements, career pursuits, and family life while at HBS. Our campus is a community, and we strive to create a welcome and inspiring environment not just for... View Details

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

How I incorporated my experience in the Asian American community at HBS into co-founding Fish Sauce. Wilson Kyi (MBA '18) graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering and worked... View Details

29 Jan 2015
Blog Post

Ask about the FIELD Immersion during your next interview

From Argentina to China, over 900 first-year students recently wrapped up a 10 day immersion experience with organizations around the globe. The immersion is part of the FIELD curriculum where student teams develop a new product or... View Details

Profile

Rocio Parra

behavior. I wanted to transition to a marketing manager role in the consumer marketing space, for which getting a business education was necessary. How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? My HBS classes such as RC Marketing... View Details

Keywords: Retail

Career Coach

Michele Biamonte

Michele (HGSE, Adult Development '05) combines her professional experience in finance, talent management and higher ed admin to help students and alumni optimize their self-assessment, career exploration and personal branding process. She... View Details

Keywords: Education; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All)

November 2006 (Revised March 2007)
Case

Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman

By: Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson

At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 fashion company, Liz Claiborne put her life savings on the line to form Liz Claiborne, Inc., a partnership that included her husband. A decade later, in 1986, Claiborne was CEO of her own... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Leadership; Gender; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career; Apparel and Accessories Industry

Educators

Purchase

Strategic Brew simulates real life challenges facing the strategist. It allows users to experience and internalize the process of strategy formulation, execution, and communication in a simulated context and to see how these processes interplay with other... View Details

04 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy

our wind, solar, and battery storage development efforts in a few different regions. I got a lot of really amazing experience from an operator perspective, and I learned about how renewable energy projects are built and all of the... View Details

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when stretch goals are misguided. Q&A.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Aug 2015
Blog Post

What’s it Like to be an HBS Partner?

Deciding to go to business school is a big, life changing choice. And, as it turns out, so is your partner deciding to go to business school with you. So what’s it like to be a partner at HBS? We connected with two members of the HBS... View Details

15 Sep 2020
Blog Post

One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech

Harvard’s new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences joint degree program confers an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master of Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School in the Harvard Department... View Details

Stefan H. Thomke

Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

23 Feb 2018
Blog Post

How to thrive as an Introvert at HBS

from my interactions and recharge.Happiness at HBS is not about having the “right” personality type. It is about defining the experience for yourself. The only reason some students feel pressure to be overly-social is because they think... View Details

14 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What I Learned at SVMP

The Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP) at HBS is a one week management training program for rising college seniors. It’s designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education, and give college students a sneak peek into View Details

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Class Profile - MBA

on the many perspectives and life experiences our students bring to their classes from all over the world. From academic assignments to casual conversations, the unique qualities of individual lives enrich... View Details

Career Coach

Connie Walsh

Connie (Kellogg '94) works with students and alumni who have had a wide variety of backgrounds and interests. Connie has 20+ years of business experience at Fortune 100 companies as well as healthcare, start-up and NFP organizations. She... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Retail; Social Enterprise; Technology

26 Oct 2016
Blog Post

From Product Development to Business School

stopped pursuing the technology and set out on developing our own solution, a move that—I’m sure—crushed the team at the laboratory: watching what they thought was a sure partner and lucrative contract slip through their fingers. This is why I decided to come to... View Details

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