Career Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Dec 2023
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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

and excitement about future opportunities. Kyle Leahy (MBA 2011) In young adulthood at Georgetown University, Leahy set out to uncover where her career path would lead, double majoring in English and Math. This academic combination... View Details

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What Can You Do to Foster Gender Equity?

deeply. We found that gender biases affect women at all stages of their careers and create barriers to advancement. Identifying and understanding the commonalities in many women's experiences is an important first step to overcoming the... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

CA 25 of 65 Carol Green Dennis The Harker School San Jose, CA CA 26 of 65 Lionel Green Renaissance Valley Academy Hemet, CA CA 27 of 65 Willa Greenstone Westridge School Pasadena, CA CA 28 of 65 Charles Hanson Menlo School Atherton, CA Subjects: World Economic History,... View Details

08 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

confidence to explore several career paths, knowing that the MS/MBA would always be a future option. My final decision to pursue the MS/MBA came towards the end of my deferral period, at which point I wanted... View Details

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

intersection of accounting, strategy, and finance, and learn how to evaluate a business’s performance, prospects, and value to make strategic investment decisions that generate financial success. 8 weeks, 5–6 hrs/week Pay by August 14... View Details

05 Jun 2023
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Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

decisions that impact vast members of the population, it may be time to start informed discussions on reasonable control measures.” Francois Fouche Goosen put it bluntly this way: “One can only regulate if you can convince all... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

a second-hand truck for $120. This purchase set McLean on his lifelong career in the transportation industry. McLean soon began hauling dirt, produce, and other odds and ends for the farming community in Maxton, where reliable... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Properly considered, this final role of general management leads to our third module: Operating the Business Model . For many of you, your careers will evolve in the setting of small, entrepreneurial firms. More than half of HBS graduates... View Details

15 Feb 2024
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How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Carol Wright

graduate school was in my future. It helped guide my decision process regarding my job and other activities I pursued in the deferral years. What job(s) did you work during your deferral? I deferred for three years, and during that time I... View Details

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Public Education Leadership Project

backgrounds, industries, and school districts across the U.S. Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Gain... View Details

June 2020
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Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Briana Richardson

With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has... View Details

Keywords: Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk and Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Personal Development and Career; Technology Industry; California

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

research. Mr. Burgstone also serves as Faculty Chair and Adjunct Professor of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in his career he was co-founder and CEO of SupplierMarket, a... View Details

December 2013 (Revised November 2015)
Case

(Re)Building a Global Team: Tariq Khan at Tek

By: Tsedal Neeley

Tariq Khan arrived home after a nearly 16-hour meeting. He was grappling with whether to take the global sales and marketing team manager position that had been offered to him, and had spent the entire day with the senior leadership of his potential new team. He wanted... View Details

Keywords: Global Teams; Language; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Problems and Challenges

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22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

the way the system is. They have to see X number of patients a day. So the patient feels completely burdened by the system. And then, of course, they're fearful that they're not making the right decisions because they don't have the right... View Details

20 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

reporting on results and management's decisions. Surprise Six: Pleasing Shareholders Is Not The Goal Warning signs: Executives and board members judge actions by their effect on stock price. Analysts who don't understand the business push for View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

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Impact Stories - Impact Stories

Breakthrough Therapies: Risk and Reward Professor Josh Krieger Preparing for a Career in Consumer Health Elena Avramov Play How the nudge movement can improve healthy behavior John Beshears Beyond Medical Devices: Filling in the Gaps at... View Details

28 Apr 2015
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3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School

the scientific merit or understand manufacturability. I am often asked to help friends understand the technology better, and evaluate the business plan. They gain leadership skills and a broader perspective on business Carol: I loved my job, but it was too much in the... View Details

January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
Case

Forecasting the Great Depression

By: Walter A. Friedman

What is proper role of professional economic forecasting in financial decision making? The case presents excerpts from three leading economic forecasters on the eve of, and just after, the stock market crash of October 1929. The first set of excerpts is from Roger... View Details

Keywords: History; Mathematical Methods; Personal Development and Career; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis

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27 Jun 2011
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Recovering from the Need to Achieve

real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even lack strength to deal with life's failures. A former chief... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

July 2024
Case

Roja Garimella: Developing a Founder's Judgment

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti

Roja Garimella’s path to becoming a founder was anything but straight. Setting her sights on a career in medicine since childhood, she committed to medical school with her acceptance to college. And yet, throughout her studies, she continually explored alternative... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Judgments; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry

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