career choices - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

choices around success. In addition to the moral difficulties that are posed by celebrity's narcissism and materialism, there are seeds of self-destruction in the celebrity approach to high achievement. Many people and organizations under... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
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Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum

By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Strength and Weakness; Negotiation Deal; Personal Development and Career

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Jon Schechter

management at the company,” he says. “Many of them were HBS alums. I wanted to emulate their leadership skills.” After eight years at Amazon, Jon wanted “a bigger role for myself. Education is an accelerated way to learn leadership.” With a wife, a young daughter, and... View Details

Keywords: Tech

01 Jun 2013
News

Notes from W50

away with the guilty feelings that arise from the conflicting demands of career and motherhood. But we can ban the words 'having it all' from the English dictionary." —Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO, Facebook "Measuring progress will... View Details

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Linda Leung

California, Berkeley, she realized she did not want to make physics her career. “Science in theory,” Linda says, “was more interesting to me than science in practice. As a career scientist, I wouldn’t be able to create the kind of... View Details

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Fereshteh Zeineddin

family settled in Vancouver in 1994. She considers herself extremely fortunate to have been exposed to three distinct cultures. "I love people, I love learning about the world by listening to their life experiences," says Fereshteh. "To prepare myself... View Details

29 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 29, 2006

for three years at a major consulting firm where she learned to adopt the demeanor of her male colleagues in order to fit in. Some of her male classmates are critical of her masculine, aggressive style in the classroom. As she begins to plan for a new View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Exploring California’s Climate Frontier: E&E Club’s Bay Area Trek

manufacturing process—from raw metal sheets to fully assembled vehicles—allows the company to streamline operations and move quickly to meet demand. The level of automation throughout the plant was remarkable, showcasing how Tesla’s strategic View Details

10 Dec 2015
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Working with Professors at HBS

Prior to joining the HBS Class of 2014, I worked in strategy and planning at HBO and spent a summer at Univision in the office of the CEO. Media has been my industry of choice ever since I was exposed to it in high school through the... View Details

23 Jul 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Transforming the Workplace for People with Disabilities

Keywords: Re: Lakshmi Ramarajan; Consulting

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

organize our data and translate it into something actionable. We're still at the stage where we're building infrastructure for it and, unfortunately, too often it's garbage in, garbage out." Lahkani asked panelists where they believe the best opportunities lie for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing International Trade and Investment Course Number 1166 Professor Meg Rithmire Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Course Overview The course approaches economic interdependence from the perspective of firms, asking students to consider... View Details

01 Oct 1997
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William K.L. Fung

Not many newly minted MBAs would hesitate if they were asked to play a major role in shaping the future of a multimillion dollar company, but 25 years ago, William Fung Kwok Lun wasn't sure it was the right choice for him. "When I got out... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

03 Aug 2017
Blog Post

“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”

wanted to use the summer to test my interest.” Working with Kurt Piemonte, a Corporate Relations Director in Career and Professional Development at HBS, Rahil began sorting his way through the startup opportunities posted on View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

on MBAs. Here’s a closer look at three of this year’s offerings. Investing for Impact Professor Shawn Cole, Finance, and Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi, General Management A rapidly growing share of asset owners and managers are making investment View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

08 Sep 2016
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4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS

choice to pursue an MBA not only to grow my business skillset but also to explore other career paths that would become available upon graduating from HBS. When I arrived to HBS, I (like most classmates)... View Details

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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting

the complexities of balancing work and life. One particularly impactful moment was meeting Qasar Younis (MBA 2008), CEO of Applied Intuition. His perspective on career choices left a lasting impression for... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

clips of alumni interviews. As a result, Garvin says, "The conversations began on a higher plane. Students asked more detailed and personal questions about how to determine if this career trajectory was right for them. Alumni were quite... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

"leverage" that technology can provide, commenting that "who says that if I want to service my client I have to be at my desk in my office?" Tom Dolembo, who has "no choice but to be 24/7 and technologically... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice

increasing complexity that today¹s managers face, Defining Moments provides examples, action steps, and a flexible framework that managers at all levels can use to make the choices that will shape not only their View Details

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