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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

Careers Balancing Work & Life Careers Balancing Work & Life Achieving the right work-life balance is important, and sometimes it takes practice to achieve what works best for you. Striking the balance... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

classroom with a completely different perspective than I came in with," he recalls. Sant's career path led him through a series of finance positions in the Bay Area before he moved to Washington, DC, for a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Specialization. With our past participant discount, you'll receive 30% off your second and third courses for a total savings of $1,110 . Here are three learning pathways we recommend based on your career goals and stage. Leading Corporate... View Details

22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

pursuing career paths in nonprofit, public sector organizations, and for-profit social enterprises which often have compensation levels below the MBA average. Qualified alumni may apply at any time during... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

career path and hope for this community,” he says. The students may fill an acute need for workers in the near term, but that isn’t necessarily the endpoint. Jamaal, 15, plans to attend medical school.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Drew Keller

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? We’re at an interesting time in history where the role of business in society is being challenged and the assumptions on which we have built our economic system are being questioned.... View Details

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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

Highlights The T-Shaped Leader Time Allocation Exercise Transitioning to a New Role Show Hide Details Concepts Capital "L" Leadership Transitioning to a New Role Featured Exercises Learning Path Tool assessment Time allocation exercise... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this world, everyone has to start... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds

ShermansTravel Media. Photos by Simon Simard Photos by Simon Simard Daniels, on the other hand, had never considered herself a born entrepreneur. She worked at McKinsey & Company before attending HBS and returned to the firm after graduation, building a 17-year View Details

Keywords: April White

04 Jun 2012
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The Business of Life

sets out to follow. An emergent strategy involves the decision to follow a new path when opportunity knocks unexpectedly, or when an unexpected roadblock arises. In work and in life, the question is always which View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 2022
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11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

responsibilities – like being a good son or having a financially stable career for instance – deserved the sunlight. For 26 years, this meant putting a lock on my self-expression. I only applied to colleges on the East Coast far from... View Details

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Bryan Stromer

which path and career seems most exciting to me. What is your most memorable classroom moment? This semester I am taking Business, Government, & the International Economy (BGIE), where each class session... View Details

31 Mar 2011
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From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

years to finish college. “We want to play offense, we want to innovate, pilot, template it, build for scale, and go." —Mark Norman, Zipcar The meandering and seemingly random path that Osher took in his View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

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Dusty Register

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? Skillset and network diversification after having worked in a relatively narrow career field for the past four years. I was hungry for a new challenge,... View Details

Keywords: CPG

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Philippe Rival

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? After six years of working as a civil engineer, the importance and value of adding management skills to an existing engineering and technical base became apparent to me. The MBA was the... View Details

24 Oct 2019
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Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions

paths are you and your classmates pursuing? JD/MBAs pursue a variety of career paths after graduation in both law and business. The program tends to attract a diverse set of... View Details

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

get intimidated, which served me well throughout my career in Fortune 500 companies, startups, and now as an entrepreneur. That case was the fork in the road of my career, and I have been in marketing ever since. It gave me confidence to... View Details