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  • 07 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

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

that thinking about a job as a relationship could serve job seekers in other fields. If you are reading this, you probably have the good fortune to have made some choices about the jobs you took or are going to take. Prestige and money... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education
  • 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
  • September 1996
  • Case

Craig Parks (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Lisa J. Chadderdon
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Moral Sensibility
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  • August 2020
  • Case

Gerald Chertavian

By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
Gerald Chertavian (HBS 1992) finds himself at a personal crossroads. It is 1999--the height of the dot com-bubble--and Chertavian and his business partners have just sold their Internet-based business for $83 million. His share of the sale’s proceeds means that he has... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • Article

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Katherine L. Milkman
Using a field experiment in a 401(k) plan, we measure the effect of disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement
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  • 26 Jan 2015
  • News

Love what you do

Throughout her career in the media, BBC Worldwide North America COO Ann Sarnoff (MBA 1987) has set an example for her two children by making choices that make her happy. (Published January 2015) View Details
  • Portrait Project

Nneka Ezeigwe

lucky, mostly, but a big part of me wishes I had the choice to grow up in the land of my birth, wishes I had the choice to attend high school and university with childhood friends, wishes I had the View Details
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

The Difference Fellowships Make

loan-forgiveness programs, can make career choices based on their passions rather than their ability to repay debt. The goal of the fellowship program is simple: recruit the most talented people and expand... View Details
  • January – February 2011
  • Article

Stop Holding Yourself Back

By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics
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  • January 2025
  • Article

Automatic Enrollment with a 12% Default Contribution Rate

By: John Beshears, Ruofei Guo, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and James J. Choi
We study a retirement savings plan with a default contribution rate of 12% of income, which is much higher than previously studied defaults. Twenty-five percent of employees had not opted out of this default 12 months after hire; a literature review finds that the... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Savings; Defined Contribution Retirement Plan; Automatic Enrollment; Retirement; Saving; Income; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of all time. Grossman has been called... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Career Coach

Victoria Chen

Victoria enjoys helping others navigate career choices in any of the following industries: media & technology, management consulting, and start-ups; or serve as a soundboard to those who are still making up... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

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

that when given the choice to brag or to humblebrag, it's better to straight-out brag. "When people first join Twitter, one of the first things they notice is that a lot of people humblebrag," says Francesca Gino, a professor in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

2006 MBAs Go to Work

Martin, associate director of MBA Recruiting Services, notes that 88 percent of students report that the job they accepted was their first choice in terms of function. “We ask students to prioritize their View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • March 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

Gene Lee Navigates the Darden Takeover

By: Joshua D. Margolis, H. Lawrence Culp, James Barnett and Aldo Sesia
Following a full takeover of Darden Restaurant’s Board of Directors, Darden COO Gene Lee is weighing an offer to become interim CEO. View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Crisis Management; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We document the loan provisions in 401(k) savings plans and how participants use 401(k) loans. Although only about 22% of savings plan participants who are allowed to borrow from their 401(k) have such a loan at any given point in time, almost half had used a 401(k)... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Finance; Retirement; Financing and Loans; Microeconomics
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  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001)

strengths and added a new level of purpose to my commitment to offering a more personalized advisory service. Every pivot, layoff, and career choice has underscored for me the importance of planning,... View Details
  • 03 May 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

company results as their own personal results; and do the reverse too, dealing with family as just a company exercise." Tak Okamoto suggested that the concept poses real problems for managers. As he put it, "I judge 'just enough-ness' on the marginal utility... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Portrait Project

Tian Tian

choices. I am lucky to live my life with options. If luck is endowed, we too often forget to cherish what we've got. I've been trying out various career paths until I am confused; I've been adventuring new places until my body fatigues of... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

An Environmental Epiphany

energy. Bulletin editor Dan Morrell spoke with Kortenhorst about his career path and how the world can make renewables a reality. READ MORE Dan Morrell: Jules, tell me a little bit about what Rocky Mountain Institute does, and what your... View Details