MBA Class Of 2017 - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Feb 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)

about their loan repayment journeys. Les Williams Class: MBA 2005 Industry: Impact Investing Recipient of the 2020 Best King Award for Service Could you please share a little bit about your upbringing and... View Details

29 May 2013
Blog Post

Gaining Career Traction

with a fabulous career coach at HBS, and she has been extremely helpful in generating ideas of connections at particular districts and charter management organizations. I still have a long way to go in my career search, but I do feel as... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

30 Nov 2016
Blog Post

Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

there some small community of people I could save within that timeframe? There wasn’t. And yet, here I am, a proud member of the class of View Details

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment

that’s defined many a veteran’s service has been passion and it’s encouraging to see that many companies are embracing of, and willing to leverage, the passion of a Vet. -Ahron Oddman, MBA 2015 View Details

2007
Text Book

Teaching the Moral Leader: A Literature-Based Leadership Course

By: Sandra J. Sucher

This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral Leader," an MBA elective taken by thousands of HBS students... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Curriculum and Courses; Moral Sensibility; Body of Literature; Books; Leadership; Personal Development and Career

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07 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Attending Peek Weekend

the Peek experience. Participants were divided into one of three cohorts: STEM, Family Business, and Women’s Colleges. The diversity among Peek participants led to deep, meaningful discussion that resembled the View Details

24 Jan 2018
Blog Post

10 Reasons Why HBS Peek Weekend was worth the trip across the pond - a british perspective

and the MBA so brilliant. Here, we will recall some of the many notable memories from our Peek Weekend experience. But the best way to truly understand the impact of Peek is to... View Details

June 2021
Case

Linda Oubré at Whittier College

By: Debora L. Spar and Haley P. Brown

The case follows President Linda Oubré (HBS MBA Class of 1984) as she seeks to move Whittier College towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.
In 2020, the student body of Whittier, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles County,... View Details

Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Women And Leadership; Education; Higher Education; Diversity; Race; Leadership; Change Management; United States; California; Los Angeles

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25 May 2018
Blog Post

9 Reasons to Look Forward to Your HBS Commencement

On May 24, the Class of 2018 took their last steps as MBA students and crossed over the Commencement stage into the role of an HBS alum. This... View Details

30 Aug 2019
Blog Post

3 Growing Pains from my First Year at HBS: Academic, Social, and Career

Miho Sakuma (MBA '20) is from Tokyo, Japan and graduated with a major in history at Williams College. At the Class of 2020 welcoming reception last year, Dean Nohria told us that HBS will transform us in... View Details

05 Sep 2014
Blog Post

CPD on the Road in Manila

I recently visited Manila to meet with organizations regarding recruitment of MBA students and alumni. The Philippines is a vibrant market for business professionals and youth is a key part View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

Web

Reunions - Alumni

for viewing and purchase on a private, secure website. Find a reunion Choose a degree MBA Executive Education PHD & DBA Choose Class Year 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 View Details

11 Sep 2017
Blog Post

7 Lessons from My Time at HBS

How many times have you missed an opportunity because you were shy? It happened to me many times both at work and in my personal life. During a sales class at HBS, a Professor pushed us to "just ask" in order to overcome our... View Details

18 Nov 2016
Blog Post

CPD Global Market Update: Singapore

As a global financial hub, one of the largest ports in the world and the gateway to Southeast Asia, opportunities are abundant for MBAs in Singapore. On a recent trip there, I found a vibrant start-up scene... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

14 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

like an engineer but was never interested in making a long-term career out of it. The North Star that has guided my career decisions has always been entrepreneurship. I decided to pursue an MBA to build upon... View Details

Teaching Interest

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Dominika has experience teaching graduate-level courses, e.g., HBS MBA course Driving Profitable Growth with Prof. Gary Pisano, as well as undergraduate-level courses, e.g., Harvard College course Men, Women, and Work with Prof. Mary Brinton. Dominika also oversaw and... View Details

26 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details

20 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Thinking About an MBA? Think About Your Purpose

success. Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the... View Details

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

entrepreneurial ideal of attaining financial success without having to give up the reins of the company. When To Found About 4 to 5 percent of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

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