career paths - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2019
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Remembering William Wilder

extensive renovations to update the building and make it ADA accessible. Home to a succession of departments over the years, Wilder House today is occupied by the HBS Career & Professional Development Office. Following service in the... View Details

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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Matter—No Matter Where You Are Shilla Kim-Parker 2009 As if 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.... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and she wanted to continue building her career in business. She also had a yearning to uncover her passion, and so exposure to different industries and business challenges through the case study method... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Oct 1999
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The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

business boot camp. Around the time of our last reunion, his extensive, twenty-year study of our class culminated in The New Rules, a book that not only documented our careers but also revealed the cataclysmic nature of the changes taking... View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

2016 Harvard Business Review Press HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company By: Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff Abstract—Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office

lives because they are actually able to put deliberate markers around their days and weeks once they get past the change curve of, "I’m actually working 100 percent remote." THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s coverage of the View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

04 Oct 2021
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Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

goal – earning his MBA at HBS. Morgan Sheil’s Road to HBS Morgan Sheil’s path to HBS began as an undergraduate chemical and biomolecular engineering student at University of Maryland. She was accepted into the 2+2 program and set out... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital

13 Jul 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature

years of their careers at McKinsey & Company. Clifford says his natural tendency toward collaborating drew him to consulting as a career path after his graduation in 1956.... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

10 Jul 2018
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Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

recruiting platform. “When I was about to switch gears and look at other meaningful career possibilities, I found Citadel in the listings.” There, she saw a title that resonated with her. “It said, ‘Talent Strategist,’ which was exactly... View Details

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Samuel Racana

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I grew up in a very international home and I learned early on that I wanted to explore a career outside Sweden. After a few years in Latin America, working... View Details

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Prita Kumar

turns in investment banking and private equity, “hoping that I would love that career path because it was filled with extremely intelligent people and highly analytical work.” While Prita did “work with... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Funny Business

Before she became a comedy writer, Claire Friedman (MBA 2014) followed the path of any good econ major, working at Goldman Sachs for five years and enrolling at HBS with plans to go into the business side of entertainment. While working... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Jan 2016
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Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

insights from this and other events via video and print, as well as on social media. Many of these resources and publications can be found on our webpage. The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative also leads major study of the career and... View Details

30 Jun 2017
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Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

time for something new. Although she had been involved in volunteer efforts in education, the arts, and economic development since high school, Pitter-Armand’s path to a career in the nonprofit sector wasn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 1998
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A Marketable Skill

assertive." As an undergraduate at Northwestern, she discovered an aptitude for design while working in the college print shop. Following that path to New York's Pratt Institute, she earned a master's degree in package design. "At Pratt... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

successful retirement is knowing when you're ready, you have to be in an equilibrium, you have to be able to say, OK, I've accomplished in my career whatever I want to, I need to. My advice to myself was I wanted to make sure that I wrote... View Details

11 Jun 2020
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Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital

this is the right career path for them. Investing in a Summer Intern, or a Summer Project Bringing on a summer intern is a great opportunity for venture capital firms to benefit from students’ analytical... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

09 Apr 2024
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IFC India: JSW Steel

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course... View Details

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Africa - Global Activities 2021

academic experience to the people she has met—in furthering her ability to pursue economic development as a long-term career path that will have impact. “Articulating your ideas in very clear and convincing... View Details

20 Dec 2019
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Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

not expect myself to become interested in biotechnology. Growing up in Vancouver, Canada, with Taiwanese immigrant parents, I considered the path of becoming a medical doctor. However, a volunteering experience at the hospital of the... View Details

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