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  • 11 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

and consider your long-term career path. “The career trajectory is quite path-dependent. And the choices that you're making today are going to affect the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Alumni Books

Stephen H. Baum (MBA ’65) with Dave Conti (Crown Business) What made Jack Welch, Gordon Bethune, and Cathy Black extraordinary leaders? Based on interviews with more than two dozen CEOs and a career of serving and observing CEOs as a... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Portrait Project

Dan Shanoff

their cool-dad basketball coach—this is how I will judge my success. Let's reconcile that concept with my $100,000 investment over the last two years. Thank goodness I figured out that Excel freaks me out; I realized I must spend my View Details
  • 19 May 2016
  • Blog Post

5 Lessons from Business School

will be forced out of your comfort zone daily Each day in class, you will take a position on a variety of choices presented in case studies. HBS requires you to defend that position while being open to critically listening to opposing... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

as a strategic issue," Merton says. "They had been offering unions the choice of a dollar's worth of salary or what they thought was a dollar's worth of benefits. Most unions picked the benefits, which were in fact worth... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • September 1985
  • Background Note

Finding a Job with a Small Company

By: Howard H. Stevenson
Describes a process of self-evaluation for working in small companies, discusses small company issues, focuses on some basic search techniques, and ends with a little how-to section. The goal is to facilitate the process of securing a job in a small company and to show... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Recruitment; Work-Life Balance; Interests
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  • December 2009 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

Iris Running Crane: December 2009

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Iris Running Crane, an MBA candidate, must choose among three different job offers in private equity. One is with a top-tier megafund buyout operation; the second with a geographically focused mid-market fund; and the third with a one-time top-tier fund that is trying... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Compensation and Benefits; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Financial Services Industry
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  • Portrait Project

Shibani Joshi

experience. Whether it involves a career goal or personal dream, I realize that following my passion is the most important decision I can make for myself. With each choice I make, I realize I inch closer to... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Comings and Goings

46% (New York City: 24%) (Boston: 11%) Western United States: 16% (California Bay Area: 8%) Central United States: 15% Europe: 9% Asia/South Pacific: 6% Southeast United States: 4% Latin America: 2% Other: 2% Career View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 May 2016
  • Blog Post

Finding the Path: Making Space for Reflection During Recruiting

that a hobby, even a passionate one, is not necessarily a good career. Hobbies are straightforward – the only requirement is that you enjoy them. You don't have to be good at them, you don't get paid, and no one makes you do them for 8-10 hours a day. A View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • Alumni WDYDWYD

Heather McLetchie-Leader

One such inflection point came when I left business and chose to pursue an academic career in religious studies. I can’t say that I was raised religious. I don’t know exactly what “being religious” means. I grew up in the Caribbean amid... View Details
  • January 1999
  • Case

Prague Post, The

By: Paul A. Gompers
Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is under pressure from competition and a Czech Republic recession. She must decide how to return the paper to... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Competition; Financial Crisis; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry; Czech Republic
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  • September 2008 (Revised April 2009)
  • Supplement

Martha Goldberg Aronson: Challenges at Mid-Career (B)

By: William W. George
Martha Goldberg Aronson of Medtronic is trying to decide whether to accept the offer from Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins to become senior vice president and chief talent officer. Aronson returned from an executive role in Europe just 18 months before as vice president,... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Job Design and Levels; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Work-Life Balance
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  • 08 May 2019
  • News

Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities

company’s customer experience and devised a workshop introducing staff to brainstorming and ideation methods. Currently, she is a participant in the Venture Incubation Program at the Harvard Innovation Labs, where she is developing a startup that helps young adults... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)

My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
  • 29 May 2013
  • Blog Post

A self-discovery journey

manufacturing plant? Really? Now, get a team of smart MBA student mates and let them talk about what your arbitrary choices seem to indicate while you silently write their conclusions. Discuss with them about it afterwards. It sounds... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008

smile. “Wherever your career choices take you, try not to forget to be home Sunday evening for dinner with your family.” Preceding Moore, student speaker David Rawlinson (MBA ’08) compared graduation to a... View Details
Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

that, in addition to professors at HBS, there were several classmates who, through their choices and examples, had tremendous impact.” What advice do you have for fellow alumni considering a career change?... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • March 2020 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Hannah Riley-Bowles and Michael Norris
In 2019, Nadine Vogel, founder and CEO of Springboard Consulting, a firm that worked with Fortune 500 companies on issues related to disability and their workforce, faced the decision of the best path forward to grow her small company. Should she build more and better... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Market Entry and Exit; Consulting Industry; United States; Florida; New York (state, US)
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  • 19 Oct 2022
  • News

If I Were You

Try something else. But really open your eyes. Xavier Paternot (MBA 2002): Xavier Paternot, 2002. Make career decisions based on your, on your guts and your, and your heart, and not on- on your head. Hang Li (MBA 2006): Hang Li, MBA,... View Details