career path - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

identify and choose career paths been explored Using brain scan results to guide careers and to recommend those who have the requisite neural structure likely to enable them to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

in the midst of a successful career in financial services with the Capital Group Companies, attended the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with some HBS friends. A believer since childhood in the power of storytelling on the big... View Details

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“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference. While working... Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are Shilla Kim-Parker 2009 As if foreshadowing the View Details

21 Mar 2012
Op-Ed

Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline

professional sports a "legitimate" career path in Asian-American families? Or how many Asian-American families might steer their children away from basketball because they see it as a... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Mar 2018
Blog Post

“Mission + Profit: What’s the Balance?” asks SECON 2018

Sheryl started her career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs before moving into journalism and most recently, a founder of an anti-trafficking non-profit organization. Her latest book, A Path Appear,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Nonprofit / Government; Technology; Entrepreneurship; Health Care

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet

Navigating this road is very challenging, because it forces us to understand ourselves and screen out many of the external forces that profoundly impact how we think about our careers and our lives. This approach takes courage and hard... View Details

11 Sep 2015
Blog Post

What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?

prospective students to know about the program? Tian: There is no specific career path that the JD/MBA degree sets you upon, no job opportunity that is open only to both degrees. At the end of the day, it's... View Details

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

path for criminal justice. A family dinner-table conversation about the concept of recidivism eventually led Anderson to pursue a business education, jobs working on private-sector approaches to the problem, and ultimately to found her... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

10 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

undergraduate students with the skills they need to succeed in corporate America. Fellows get one-on-one mentorship from an advisor, participate in a weekly speaker series on topics like career prep, mental health and leadership, and... View Details

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

engaging in real earnings management and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Negotiating the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2017
News

Finding Purpose in Profit

careers as an attorney and as an Anglican priest. “I knew that I wanted to lead and to fight for justice and social good,” she observes. “Ironically, I’m doing that now, but on a far different path than I... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; B corporations

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Hiroshi Mikitani

When Hiroshi Mikitani decided, at age 31, to leave a good job at the Industrial Bank of Japan in Tokyo to start a company, he raised more than a few eyebrows. In Japanese culture, where the group is favored above the individual, entrepreneurship is a rare View Details

18 Sep 2015
Blog Post

A Peek Inside Peek Weekend

career would take me. I was thinking about my summer and how best to use this time to explore my options. I did not, however, think about the more intangible and quite profound value that the program would add to my life. More than simply... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

01 Jun 1997
News

HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus

attractive career path for many HBS students. Students fall into two camps, Hoegh explained, with regard to the Internet. "The first group is interested out of fear," he said. "Employers expect them to be... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner

Profile

Jon Schechter

management at the company,” he says. “Many of them were HBS alums. I wanted to emulate their leadership skills.” After eight years at Amazon, Jon wanted “a bigger role for myself. Education is an accelerated way to learn leadership.” With a wife, a young daughter, and... View Details

Keywords: Tech

30 Mar 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Adrian Obleton

Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? I was able to make choices and take risks that I otherwise wouldn’t have. I felt free to leave a toxic work environment because I knew that I was coming to HBS. Also, I felt... View Details

03 Aug 2017
Blog Post

“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”

which Rahil met his internship employer. “My internship search wasn’t really constructed on a traditional path with research, interviews and offers,” says Rahil. Instead, his TEM class provoked a change in direction. “I had never worked... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

Profile

Andrew Kinard

the deal." Andrew applied for the joint JD/MBA program and a new kind of career path emerged. "Lawyers play an important role," he says, "but I want to focus my efforts in creating value,... View Details

21 Dec 2018
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