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- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
you arrived at HBS, were you planning to go into a health care career? What influenced your decision to pivot into that industry? Before coming to HBS, I worked at Procter & Gamble as an operations manager. While my first job (only... View Details
- 06 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Amy Hernandez Turcios (MBA 2020)
pivoted into strategy. That’s where it became painfully evident that in order to become the Latina executive I knew I wanted to be one day, I needed to own my voice. I needed to find a way to have comfort with raising my hand in meetings... View Details
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Meet the Tech Club - Recruiting
organize sessions tailored to the needs of both students transitioning into tech and those with existing tech backgrounds. Examples include Tech Functions 101, Pivoting into Tech, PM Mock Interviews (in partnership with CPD), Startup... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
Jakurskis were inspired to support junior faculty during a pivotal point in their careers. “By investing in associate professors, Maria and I feel we are helping HBS sustain and further its world-class faculty,” says André Jakurski,... View Details
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Dana Hoffmann
provides tenants with the quality of a rental broker but without the exorbitant cost. We decided to pivot and create a tool for consumers, using a platform of qualified tenants. When did you launch Portico? We View Details
- Profile
Eryn Schultz
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I decided to apply to business school because I wanted to pivot away from strategy consulting and move into an operations focused role at a mission-oriented organization. While I had... View Details
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Jacqueline Beato
a pivotal step toward the MBA by participating in HBS's Summer Venture in Management Program. The program immersed Jacqueline in a week of case studies. "After that," says Jacqueline, "I just knew that this is where you go... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu
out an internship and later a full-time role, even if they weren’t always in perfect alignment. An Opportunity for Reflection For Nyantekyi-Owusu, the decision to spend two years at HBS was driven by a desire to pivot and a need to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building
as a pivotal point of discussion towards reducing global carbon emissions. The push to decarbonize the building sector stems from statistics compiled by sources such as Architecture 2030, which indicate that activities related to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19
alumni will fit within those industries. When we survey our students each year about what drives them to apply to our MBA program, moving their career forward is consistently listed as one of the top three reasons. Some students want to View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Dance Dance Revelation
directors? If you don’t fall, you’re not trying hard enough: When was the last time we encouraged our employees to push an idea so far that their results or recommendations seemed outlandish? And how can we make them feel safe enough to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
have succeeded, one is still in its nascent stages, and one is "pivoting," Cook said. In lean-start-up lingo, pivoting means taking a major change of course based on user feedback—the idea being that it's easier to change the... View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Going the Distance for Investment Excellence
students come together and learn from each other. Sometimes you just know what’s right and pivot toward that.” In fact, HBS was the only graduate program Cameron applied to. He appreciated that HBS wasn’t a finance-only... View Details
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
became a successful lawyer working for the Israeli Supreme Court. She had hoped she could combine law and business together, but, “I realized that being a lawyer meant working from the sidelines. And I want to call the shots myself.” After View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
previous two months began receiving phone calls about internship cancellations. Difficult choices were made all around as organizations and students scrambled to pivot in a landscape that remained uncertain. Yet, for Humana, a Fortune 500... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
students as summer and leadership fellows at Lincoln Center and now at ABT. And shortly before her 10th HBS Reunion this year, she hosted a private rehearsal and reception at ABT for leading donors in her class. “My time at HBS was eyeopening, energizing, inspiring,... View Details
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
exchanges and influences occurred through many channels—from the Chinese art and antiquities that Americans exported home, the ways in which wealthy traders gave back to their communities, and the archive of records merchants left behind that reveal a View Details
- 05 May 2025
- Blog Post
Meet the Tech Club
One Capital, Stack Overflow, Perplexity, and Hebbia. Internal Development and Workshops: Throughout the year, we organize sessions tailored to the needs of both students transitioning into tech and those with existing tech backgrounds. Examples include Tech Functions... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
meet great people, and practically apply the knowledge I’d gained in the HBS classroom. Making an Industry Pivot Post-Internship The startup experience put me at a career crossroads by August 2021. Going in, I had convinced myself that... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
that businesses are much more flexible than any of us thought. Early in the crisis, I interviewed a number of executives in HBS’s Owner/President Management program, who run small and medium-sized businesses around the globe, and listened to their stories of how they... View Details
Keywords: April White