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11 Jan 2024
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My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

table were Yosemite, Point Reyes, Grand Canyon, Puerto Rico, Denver, and many other incredible locations. I was in the middle of a few other interview cycles for various health care roles, and I was completely torn. Do I accept the role with NPS, or continue to engage... View Details

24 Aug 2020
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My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort

As a senior at Hamilton College, I debated what career path to take. Should I go to Medical School? Maybe get a PhD? Or should I dive straight into the business world? I was a Biology major with four years... View Details

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Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

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 career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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How I Got to Google

conversation with your engineering team, but that’s a skill you can build for yourself. + ONLINE web-only content SS: What is a typical career path once you land that PM job? PR: It’s a little bit confusing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Herman I. Safin

political reforms of perestroika -- Safin's educational and professional background has prepared him well for a career in the global economy. The winner of the first public elections ever held at his high school, Safin served as student... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

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Ben Steiner

paying Rwandans to grow trees. “I’m thinking of my career path in thirds,” says Ben. “The first third is about learning, which is what I’m doing now. The second will be about earning – perhaps in finance or... View Details

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Alex Furleigh

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I was ready for a change. Having spent my entire career before business school in operations—helping organizations do better with the resources that they... View Details

02 Oct 2016
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Peek Weekend: The Family Business Cohort

where these discussions happen with professors all the time. In addition to professors, Peek gives participants access to a dynamic group of students and uses cohorts to group students with others grappling with similar career questions.... View Details

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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Starting a For Profit Social Enterprise... View Details

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On Course | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

2015) 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

01 Dec 2014
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Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships

because education provides the leverage to change people’s mindsets and enable them to be successful.” Cenat believes that business can be a catalyst for social change, and she is deeply grateful for the HBS financial aid that has set her on a View Details

Keywords: fellowships

01 Oct 1999
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The View from the Pit

limitations when making career choices. "I have my own definition of success that is internally driven and has the support of my family," he says proudly. Like Barrett and Baldwin, Hightower's path to... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

reality, articulate the vision and set the strategic path to it, enshrine the institutional values, demand performance, empower the people, and then get out of the way and say thank you.” A leader should also be a good listener, encourage... View Details

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ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

John M. Lotz (MBA 1971) Pangaea Publishing Group In your lifetime, almost everyone serves in natural, informal leadership “roles:” parent, mentor, coach, teacher, husband, wife, friend, counselor, and more. In your lifetime, you will observe and judge leaders. In your... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

27 Aug 2019
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A Shot at Success

in 2018 that crystalized the vision for Trey Athletes, which creates cohorts of student-athletes and introduces them to former athletes whose career paths can be models of success. Reynolds was building a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2008
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James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

decades in the investment world, service on nonprofit boards and think tanks, and management of the financial turnaround of both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, not to mention a midlife decision to study the cello. Wolfensohn believes his... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very easy to leave HBS and continue... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

03 Jun 2020
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Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

driver's seat – of a submarine. For six years he served as a Nuclear Submarine Officer in the Navy and then made the transition into consulting for three years with EY. While at HBS, Peters took advice from his professors and reflected on different View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Jun 2016
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Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

A Roundabout Path To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without... View Details

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