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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
New Career Tools for Alumni
Ready for your next career move? Present your experience and qualifications to prospective employers through the Alumni Career Hub’s Résumé Database. Designed to facilitate the hiring process, the database allows recruiters to identify... View Details
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
businesses." Wulf hastens to say that the research is by no means a death knell for general managers, but their jobs may change. At the least, they will likely find themselves in more meetings than ever before. "The general... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
open-source software have been companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple. Talk about the role of contests. This kind of crowdsourcing has a strong historical precedent. In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi won a competition to determine who... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
interest of privacy, I have used pseudonyms for the participants.) Williams, an African-American, was born and raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Washington, DC. After earning his bachelor's degree at one of the nation's leading colleges, he began his career as a... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Brooke Carter (MBA 2019)
guiding north stars, and I am confident I would have relentlessly pursued them regardless. However, I think 2+2 enabled me to have perspective when most people aren’t as fortunate. Your first job post-undergraduate can be all-consuming,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Enjoying the Chance to Reconnect
Despite the significant demands of his job as a partner in the fast-growing New York venture firm Thrive Capital, Patrick Chun appreciated the opportunity to be a major gifts cochair for his 5th Reunion. “It’s great to reconnect with... View Details
- Web
Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events - Recruiting
consider hosting a company event . The key to a successful event is the dialogue between students and recruiters. Company events provide the perfect platform for organizations to engage students in discussion around company values, job... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
of Milwaukee (her father worked at the Miller brewery), Gehrke attended Northwestern University, where she was introduced to poster design while working in a print shop. From there she went to the Pratt Institute for a master’s degree in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
running the equipment to the plant manager, and there were definitely some heated conversations. I had moments of frustration, but managed to keep those feelings to myself. I had to understand that people in general, myself included, sometimes don’t like change. When... View Details
- Profile
Colt Stander
Chances are there haven’t been many MBA candidates who have designed eyeglasses for Nickelodeon and Geoffrey Beene, or the mobile console for a micro-ablation tool used in surgical suites. “I’ve had the unusual experience,” Colt Stander... View Details
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
Throughout, students will develop a process for recognizing the elements that have, and have not, changed fundamentally in the era of information access and exploitation. Career Focus This course is designed to help students consider how... View Details
- 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 and product development, becoming... View Details
- 02 Feb 2022
- News
AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say
Photo via Pymetrics Photo via Pymetrics A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights the efforts of Frida Polli (MBA 2012), a neuroscientist and CEO of Pymetrics, an AI-powered recruiting and job matching platform, to employ... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
computer problems on a website, companies that design those interactions purely to cut costs don't succeed. But when they actively partner with their customers to deliver a better service experience," she relates, "that's the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
MBA students to connect with HBS alumni are all part of the latest EC enhancements designed to address the changing needs and interests of MBA students. Course Development After completing the MBA Program's required courses, students... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
imperative. IBM’s “new collar” program is one example on a large corporate scale; it creates points of entry for people who lack traditional credentials. The pool of people in this category is vast: Any job posting that requires... View Details
- 09 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from CPG to a Self-Driving Car Startup through my Summer Internship
accurate – April rolled around and, like clockwork, so did an internship opportunity at Cruise, a self-driving car company (hence my futuristic commute). After WesTrek, I realized I wanted to work in San Francisco at a tech startup with a socially conscious mission.... View Details
- 10 May 2015
- Blog Post
Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur
space early as a first year student when we would have random meetings there for FIELD 1. Every moment, room and resource within the first floor iLab center has been thoughtfully designed to assist entrepreneurs. The center has truly... View Details