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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
Frida Polli (MBA 2012) came to HBS as a neuroscientist in search of a business problem to solve, and she found it during the recruitment season. All of these companies and job-seekers searching for hints of a good fit in handshakes and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 07 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience
me graduating with a specialization in computing. In my senior year, I picked up a job at a small business selling open source services. This combination of baseline coding skills and open source knowledge... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Everyone’s Business By Julie Battilana Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, and Tiziana Casciaro Simon & Schuster Power is one of the most misunderstood—and therefore vilified—concepts in... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
people often don’t have the financial wherewithal and broad general skills to leave behind a job where they are intimidated. Working in fear is a terrible way to live, and a secret ballot can ameliorate much of that fear. Michael A.... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
educated, and provided with artisan skills. Doing well by doing good is important to us and we support a good cause through our supply chain." What's been the best and most challenging part of building the business? "The best part of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
her well at Catalyst, the 75-person nonprofit global research and advisory firm she joined as president in 2003 (Lang was named CEO in 2008). Committed to breaking the proverbial glass ceiling once and for all, Catalyst, founded in 1962, works with View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
press coverage in the Economist, the Guardian, and the New York Times. That motto is also what propelled the 26-year-old creative force to journey 6,400 miles to Boston to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School. “The art scene in the... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy, manufacturing, and marketing. I began to rely increasingly on... View Details
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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 28 Apr 2025 How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs tag All Industries All Locations Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies For large numbers of Harvard Business School MBA graduates, the first post-degree position is... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
lifelong learning in the climate space. There’s so much momentum, why not capitalize on it now. What do you see as HBS’s, and BEI’s, role in confronting climate change? BEI and HBS can act as a conduit for providing information about what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
presentation based on his book, Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success, and Professor Weiss presented a session based on his book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
shift from her previous strengths to her new ambitions. At Path, a mobile application startup based in San Francisco, Cynthia joined as a business analyst, but during her five-year tenure, moved to design... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog
of the full semester version. The content centers on the management of innovation, strategy, and growth of a firm from the perspective of the general manager. The central puzzle in this course – and something we will see frequently in our... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
well-thought-out decisions.'" Given the prevailing lack of specificity about their duty, most boards gradually develop an implicit understanding of what their job should be. As long as the business was... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
And I think a lot of us have this expectation: Well, I’m gonna get that consulting job or that finance job out of HBS, do it for a couple years, then I’ll figure out what I want to do. Like yeah that View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
there was a good fit between my background and the requirements for leading this agency. In the aftermath of 9/11, I also had a desire to get back into public service. How did you approach the job? I took this on as a turnaround. With most View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
from ancient DNA), extending health lifespans – ‘curing the disease of aging’. We also look at feeder technologies that act as accelerants to the core technologies. These include ubiquitous networks that collect data on everything... View Details