Job Search - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2006
News

2006 MBAs Go to Work

Martin, associate director of MBA Recruiting Services, notes that 88 percent of students report that the job they accepted was their first choice in terms of function. “We ask students to prioritize their career View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2008
News

A World of Information at Your Fingertips

users and returning subscribers. The School recently upgraded eBaker by making it easier to use, cutting the price of OneSource by $50 a year, and making more databases available without charge. Among current users of the eBaker service, View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Aug 2019
News

Helping Veterans Build Careers

designated more than $28 million to nonprofit grantee partners, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. At HBS, Goldenberg served as co-president of the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA) and has since... View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Strategic Networking

career information by other HBS graduates. So what’s the best way to leverage the power of those connections? The answer really depends on your objectives, says Christine Sullivan, senior program manager of Alumni Career Services. In any View Details

Keywords: Networking

27 Mar 2020
News

CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis

Fortunately, existing post-graduation job offers for second-year students haven’t been affected yet, but many Class of 2020 members are still looking for jobs, and about 500 first-year students are still View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Books

Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job by Robert S. Gardella (Harvard Business School Press) As fast as the business world is changing, so too are the techniques for searching for the right... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Dec 2004
News

GLF Showcases London

Career Services, previewed the new service, which will feature the ability to search jobs by industry, function, geographic region, salary range, keyword, and type of position. Modeled after the View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1998
News

Booting Up

strong economic potential. But when it came time to search for an entrepreneurial opportunity in earnest, Thornton realized she didn't have to travel much farther than her own closet to find her niche. "As someone who wears a size 11 1/2... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Kyruus’s search engine enables consumers to find the best providers for their health care needs. Since he was eight years old, Graham Gardner, MD (MBA 2007) knew he wanted to be a doctor. Once he completed his training as a cardiologist,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2008
News

Career Services Shifts into High Gear

Many members of the Class of 2008 were just settling into new jobs as reverberations from the financial crisis were felt around the world. While employment figures for the class remain strong, MBA Career Services has continued its support... View Details

01 Jun 2019
News

Case Study: Mind the Gap

The facts of the ever-widening skills gap are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the US, Europe, and China, says Przemyslaw Berendt (PLDA 18, 2014). And judging by the $1 trillion spent on... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Dec 1996
News

Meditations on the Bottom Line

about Kripalu's search for an executive director, she jumped at the opportunity - and not a moment too soon. "The search process was almost over," she says. Despite her eleventh-hour bid for the View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics

is now one of the three largest executive search firms in the world, with billings of almost $300 million last year. At the 2002 HBS Alumni Achievement Awards panel discussion, held in Burden Auditorium October 3, award recipient Margie... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole process needed... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2006
News

Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources

Cooper Most of us know to search the online Alumni Directory for a classmate’s contact information, but have you ever explored the many other features of the HBS Alumni Web site? It’s full of information on programs, services, and... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
News

The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari I found myself frequently searching Google for things I read about in the book, which extended the time it took to read it, but I always view this as a great sign. Among the highlights for me: We all share... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

New Career Tools for Alumni

submit. “We’re pleased with the way the database expands the value proposition to alumni and employers,” says Christine Sullivan, director of Alumni Career & Professional Development. The Hub also offers alumni the ability to search for a... View Details