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  • Program

Building a Legacy

solutions to your wealth management challenges Develop an action plan for initiating an intergenerational transfer Implement best practices for separating operating assets and family office assets Make key hires or use outsourcing to... View Details
  • July 2003 (Revised January 2004)
  • Case

Carol Brewer's Investments

By: Richard S. Ruback and Julia Stevens
Following her husband's death in 1994, Carol Brewer took over the management of her family's investments. This case describes the decisions Brewer made during this process, including her choice to seek active account management, her selection of an investment firm, and... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Retirement; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Management; Personal Finance; Investment Banking; Investment Return
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Driving Corporate Performance

with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

regimes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50186 Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates By: Shu, Pian Abstract—Using detailed data on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • September 2005
  • Case

Martha Goldberg Aronson: Leadership Decisions at Mid-Career

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
In 2005, Martha Goldberg Aronson must decide whether to accept an overseas posting in a functional role with Medtronic Corp. The move would be a professional stretch, but would entail leaving a position with a plan half completed and moving her young family overseas.... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Leadership
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Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career... View Details
  • December 2004 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

Extend Fertility

By: Myra M. Hart and Sylvia Sensiper
Focuses on the search for opportunity, the generation and evaluation of business concepts, creation of a business plan, and the start-up process. Follows experienced entrepreneur Christy Jones as she combines her business skills and personal experience to generate new... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Gender; Business Startups; Biotechnology Industry
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  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

models will transform adaptation, and she offers career advice for those in climate tech and applied AI. Read the Transcript Previous Episodes Closing the Loop by Recycling Apparel: Reju CEO Patrik Frisk 18 JUN 2025 | Climate Rising... View Details
  • July 2010
  • Case

Fidelity Retires in Canada

By: Robert C. Pozen and Edward Warren Scott
The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision about what to do with its retirement business there. Although Fidelity as a fund manager has made some headway in Canada, the competition has been very tough for the administration of retirement plans—a separate... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Funds; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Retirement; Competition; Financial Services Industry; Canada; United States
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  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

conformity comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we mindlessly accept rules and norms rather than questioning and constructively rebelling against them, we ultimately end up stuck and unfulfilled. As leaders, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

of "organized" retailers such as Pantaloon. Pantaloon's management faced some exciting opportunities as well as some potential competition both from global retailers planning to enter the Indian market and from large Indian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

his career studying survival. “We are all day-to-day survivors. We are alive today because from childbirth our behaviour has adapted to our own particular environment,” Leach writes. “The danger arises when we are forced outside of our... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 29 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)

living expenses were also an adjustment for us. Our monthly budget in Boston was significantly higher than what it had been in Louisiana, for the same standard of living. How did you approach your career search? Was it influenced by... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

work done," says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. “Teaming is the engine of organizational learning.” The problem: Stable teams that plan first and execute later are increasingly infeasible in the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 24 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Part-Time Employees Want More Hours. Can Companies Tap This ‘Hidden’ Talent Pool?

workforce, since an ever-growing proportion of college and graduate school enrollees are women, he adds. This planning is even more necessary with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Fuller cautions. As computers automate more... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Web

MBA Experience - Health Care

by faculty and includes the latest facts and figures about where students are securing internships and full-time positions. Health Care Career Days Offers panels and presentations designed to introduce students to diverse health care... View Details
  • Program

Advancing Women of Color in Leadership

relationships with people who are like and unlike yourself Develop your own career vision and action plan Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

company you may start yourself. Which comes first in your journey? For those doing early career path planning and knowing they want to do both a startup and a mature company at some point, there’s always the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

require digital transformations to be more iterative than other forms of corporate change. Leaders need to catalyze change rather than plan for it. That means creating the initial conditions for the organization to achieve its ambitions... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • Web

Help - Alumni

crediting policy for planned gifts? HBS will give credit to the donor and donor's class for the full face-value of an irrevocable life-income gift. Such credit is given also for a bequest intention, properly documented, in the 50th... View Details