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- 11 Sep 2019
- Podcast
How carefully managed career restarts can benefit individuals and employers
Life events, personal interests, and a host of other factors lead people to step away from work. The key is how to handle reentry. Carol Fishman Cohen, HBS ‘85, draws on her own experience to consult and write about what it means to come back from a career break in... View Details
- October 2006
- Article
Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets
By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Beth Bechky
O'Mahony, Siobhan, and Beth Bechky. "Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor Markets." Academy of Management Journal 49, no. 5 (October 2006): 918–941.
- 20 Nov 2019
- Video
Career & Professional Development Webinar
- 2007
- Chapter
Career Patterns and Organizational Performance
By: Monica C. Higgins and James R. Dillon
Traditional research on careers examines how organizations and individuals affect career outcomes. This chapter reviews several specific ways in which career histories have been found to influence organizational outcomes. While we incorporate both upper echelons... View Details
Higgins, Monica C., and James R. Dillon. "Career Patterns and Organizational Performance." Chap. 21 in Handbook of Career Studies, edited by M. Peiperl and H. Gunz, 422–436. Sage Publications, 2007.
- March 2018 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
McKinsey & Company: Early Career Choices
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
Teaching Note for HBS No. 618-034. View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in Clean Energy
Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new ideas and practical, effective solutions. BEI has established a network of 5,000 alumni whose... View Details
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
(HBS 2003), Managing Director of Career & Professional Development (“CPD”). At the time, Kristen was expanding CPD’s employer relations and career coaching teams in an... View Details
- 04 May 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann
seeking a position within the nonprofit space and specifically for an organization that had mission and purpose in their DNA. I was fortunate to find a position in the marketing department for HBS’s Career Professional Development team. I... View Details
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
manage and advance their careers in the less predictable world of contract labor. But how do you land those kinds of jobs? In "Stretchwork: Managing the View Details
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Careers - Alumni
Drive: Embracing Entrepreneurship with Kait Stephens (MBA 2020) Kait Stephens (MBA 2020) came to HBS with the goal of becoming a founder and left having launched Brij, a platform... Lifelong Learning: Career View Details
- Research Summary
Career and Personal Renewal at Mid-Life
Carl S. Sloane has been studying mid- and late-life transitions in careers and life structures. Two central issues identified in his research, and reflected in the instructional materials for the executive education workshop Age of Options, are (1) the relationship... View Details
- August 2002
- Exercise
Career Choice-Making Case 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
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Personal Development and Career
Higgins, Monica C., David A. Thomas, and Shoshana Zuboff. "Career Choice-Making Case Assignment, The." Harvard Business School Exercise 403-054, August 2002.
- 17 Aug 2010
- News
Career Trends
- 09 Jun 2022
- Video
Welcome to Career & Professional Development
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Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry
Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.
Professor Higgins has written... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Gaining Career Traction
with a fabulous career coach at HBS, and she has been extremely helpful in generating ideas of connections at particular districts and charter management organizations. I still have a long way to go in my... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Career Highlights
Christensen gladly gave up the certainty of planned lectures for the ambiguity of free-flowing discussion driven by his students. HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS 1943 Earns his MBA 1953 Earns DCS degree and is appointed an... View Details
- November 2017 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago (Abridged)
By: Joshua Margolis and Michael Norris
In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, considered his future in Chicago politics. With an unpopular governor and mayor soon up for reelection, should Summers consider running for higher office? Summers reflects on his time growing up in gang-controlled... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development; Career Journey; Career; Career Management; Leadership; Leadership Development; Government and Politics; Personal Development and Career; Public Administration Industry; United States; Chicago
Margolis, Joshua, and Michael Norris. "Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 418-034, November 2017. (Revised February 2019.)
- 03 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Video | Lindsay Muller (MBA 2024)
coaching in her pivot from consulting to health care, from early career planning to managing the strategic yet introspective process of navigating multiple offers. Discover more View Details