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- October 2004
- Exercise
Dyad Exercise
Provides instructions for an exercise in which two students exchange their self-assessment data for analysis. A rewritten version of an earlier exercise. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
Clawson, James G. "Dyad Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 405-062, October 2004.
- August 2002
- Exercise
Written Interview Assignment, The
By: Monica C. Higgins, David A. Thomas and Shoshana Zuboff
Sets the stage for self-assessment as an integral component in the process of career development. View Details
Higgins, Monica C., David A. Thomas, and Shoshana Zuboff. "Written Interview Assignment, The." Harvard Business School Exercise 403-052, August 2002.
- August 2003
- Case
Amy Kelly's 48-Hour Diary
The response of former Self-Assessment and Career Development student Amy Kelly to the "48-Hour Diary" assignment. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
Higgins, Monica C. "Amy Kelly's 48-Hour Diary." Harvard Business School Case 404-009, August 2003.
- 06 May 2025
- Blog Post
HBS Career Journeys | Bryant Warmate (MBA 2024)
Bryant Warmate (MBA 2024) shares how reflective self-assessment through CareerLeader and coaching guided his transition from renewable energy engineering to consulting, combining technical expertise with business acumen to pursue... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Is Overconfidence a Motivated Bias? Experimental Evidence
Why Don’t Women Self-Promote As Much As Men?
Requests for self-assessments of one's performance are pervasive throughout one's career. Why do women engage in less self-promotion than men when asked to describe their performance? The authors of a recent study show that it is not as simple as gender... View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- News
Microfinance Spurs Sustained Growth—but Not for Everyone
- 17 Apr 2024
- Video
Career Journeys | Bryant Warmate
- March 1998
- Teaching Note
Personality Types: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (TN)
By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy
Describes a class design for teaching students about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The Ideal Organization exercise is the centerpiece of the class. It demonstrates that people with different cognitive types have distinct preferences for the type of... View Details
- September 2003
- Module Note
Managing the Competing Goals of Work and Life
By: Leslie A. Perlow
Outlines how instructors can facilitate discussion within the Managing the Competing Goals of Work and Life module to encourage students to begin a process of self-assessment that focuses on personal values, career development needs, and workplace culture. View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Culture; Work-Life Balance; Value
Perlow, Leslie A. "Managing the Competing Goals of Work and Life." Harvard Business School Module Note 404-063, September 2003.
- October 2004
- Exercise
Career Orientation Instrument
This self-assessment exercise helps students explore how they engage with and make meaning of their careers. Specifically, it allows them to examine their relationship to their anticipated general career area--business. Includes a 35-item survey, scoring instructions,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
Higgins, Monica C., and Shoshana Dobrow. "Career Orientation Instrument." Harvard Business School Exercise 405-058, October 2004.
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 24 Sep 2015
- Webinars: Career
Transitioning Beyond Your First or Second Post-HBS Job
Are you thinking of making a job change? Unlike other career moves, the moves early in your career may be different than those later in life. Conducting honest self-assessment and redefining your career vision are often essential to determining next steps in an early... View Details
- Research Summary
One aspect of my research is highly quantitative, based on the construction and analysis of psychometric instruments, and another relies on the qualitative data obtained from the interview process. I look upon both psychometric and interview-derived data in terms of a... View Details
- March–April 2013
- Article
Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations
By: Tsedal Neeley
How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Status and Position; Loss; Spoken Communication; Emotions; Attitudes; Behavior; Globalization
Neeley, Tsedal. "Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations." Organization Science 24, no. 2 (March–April 2013): 476–497.
- 2011
- Book
The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
By: Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen
Some people are just natural innovators, right? With no apparent effort, they discover ideas for new products, services, and entire businesses. It may look like innovators are born, not made. But according to Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen anyone can... View Details
Dyer, Jeffrey H., Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen. The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2011.
- May 2003
- Case
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
By: John A. Quelch
Didier Cherpitel, CEO of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), is implementing a new strategy that will fundamentally change the role of its International Secretariat. The organization is in the early stages of implementing a best... View Details
Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies." Harvard Business School Case 503-059, May 2003.
HBS Online: Negotiation Mastery
Michael Wheeler, working with the HBS Online team, created Negotiation Mastery: Unlocking Value in the Real World. It is a flexible, highly-interactive online course which prepares participants to close deals that might otherwise be dead-locked, maximize value... View Details
- March 1994 (Revised December 1998)
- Background Note
Managing Your Career
By: Linda A. Hill
Designed to serve as background reading for the "Managing Your Career" module of the second-year MBA elective Power and Influence. Describes the way in which managers learn and develop through on-the-job experience. Outlines a model for launching a "success syndrome"... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career
Hill, Linda A. "Managing Your Career." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-082, March 1994. (Revised December 1998.)
- May 1998
- Teaching Note
Development Relationships TN
By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy
The final class of the Career Development module of the Self-Assessment and Career Development course (SACD) uses the topic of mentoring and developmental relationships to encourage students to think beyond the point of finding and accepting a suitable job offer. The... View Details
- November–December 2022
- Article
Can AI Really Help You Sell?: It Can, Depending on When and How You Implement It
By: Jim Dickie, Boris Groysberg, Benson P. Shapiro and Barry Trailer
Many salespeople today are struggling; only 57% of them make their annual quotas, surveys show. One problem is that buying processes have evolved faster than selling processes, and buyers today can access a wide range of online resources that let them evaluate products... View Details
Dickie, Jim, Boris Groysberg, Benson P. Shapiro, and Barry Trailer. "Can AI Really Help You Sell? It Can, Depending on When and How You Implement It." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 6 (November–December 2022): 120–129.