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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
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
Alumni Impact Stories Martin Aares MBA 2001 | Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact "As leaders who make a difference, the private sector can have huge influence over the future of our planet. We are changing the conversation by showing a... 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
- 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
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
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
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- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
of his childhood. A classmate introduced Westphal to a friend in VC in Brazil and immediately, the VC partner knew the right person to introduce him to, Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999), founder of Facily. A Non-Linear Path to Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
founded by Willie Woods (MBA 1993), after each launching their careers in investment banking. “Joining ICV was a great experience and eye opening for us because we were used to being in majority environments,” said Tingle. “Also, at a... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
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
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
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
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
they do form.' And that's a positive approach, where you're focused on explaining the positive and what brings it about." Similarly, when researching the career paths of minority executives in the 1990s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
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
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2008 Financial Crisis ultimately found more interesting career paths than some of the previous sort of standard choices that we’d all thought about. I think there was a lot more stress and uncertainty, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
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
- 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
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
outreach. They thought the podcast could educate those interested in careers at the intersection of business and climate change by exposing them to the myriad of paths such a View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
lucrative gig that taught him a lot about business but ultimately landed him in prison. Once he’d served his 14 months, Blakeman sought to build a career and turn his life around. But when his criminal record kept him from getting a job,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
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
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
When Apoorva Pasricha (MBA 2019) assumed her role with the City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Office of Technology & Innovation as an HBS Leadership Fellow in August 2019, her mandate was to implement San Jose’s ‘Smart City’ road map. "My entire View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)
years Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans?Growing up, I was an awkward and nerdy kid (and still am). After classes, you could find me making flamethrowers, rock candy, and California snowballs for Chemistry... View Details
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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
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 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to... View Details