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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

alumni from top business schools with flexible work opportunities and consulting projects at a variety of organizations: Business Talent Group Expert360 GLG Guru Catalant Werk Past Program Resources How... View Details

07 Apr 2023
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Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

want to, and having different levels of understanding is something that will be invaluable in my career. You took advantage of your time at Harvard to intern in both the consulting and venture capital... View Details

06 May 2022
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Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

(planting trees where there were no trees previously) all play a role in taking in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But, it can be a challenge to efficiently and accurately... View Details

18 Mar 2022
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Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

career shaped my view of climate change and the energy transition because it showed me that technology alone isn’t enough and that several stars must align to make real impact.... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

heart of Wall Street, forced Lehman Brothers to relocate its operations. Lehman employees worked in temporary sites in Jersey City and Manhattan until the firm moved it operations View Details

01 Sep 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak

(photos courtesy of Sunny Stroeer) “When your Monday morning looked like this you know it’s going to be a good week,” Suzanne “Sunny” Stroeer (MBA 2011) wrote on Instagram recently. Her view: Sunrise from... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 Jul 2015
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From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again

leaving HBS? I went into consulting right after school. About three months in I got a call from Teach For America to see if I'd be interested in running the region down in... View Details

16 Feb 2024
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As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

overhaul of how policymakers, educators, and employers devise, construct, and manage career pathways, which are the routes aspiring workers take as they graduate from education and training View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

13 Mar 2023
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Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

energy transition and to offer jobs and commercial opportunities to people and businesses that are currently dependent on the energy sector. What’s next for 44.01? How do you... View Details

25 Jul 2016
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Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS

many retail speakers as I could, typically 1-2 presentations a week, covering everything from large fashion brands to small e-commerce start ups. I found I always learned at least one useful thing per... View Details

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

October 2017
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Still Leading (B10): Louis Gossett Jr.— A New Role Erasing Racism

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Louis (Lou) Gossett Jr.’s exemplary life included a groundbreaking career in entertainment and a bold and audacious goal to erase racism. From the Broadway stage to television and the movie screen, Gossett earned major accolades in his field, notably becoming the first... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Advanced Leadership; Change; Transition; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Prejudice and Bias

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30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

that tend to feed into top MBA programs as well as in leadership positions in major organizations.” Rice found HBS to be a strange and wondrous place. Strange, he says, because, compared View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

continued to engage with HBS students and drive career opportunities for them—as evidenced in the connection made between Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) and Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999). View Details

Keywords: Becca Carnahan

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

"Residential Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity" with Serguei Netessine. Christian Kaps : Winner of the 2024 People’s Choice Flash Talk Award at the INFORMS Early-Career Sustainable Operations Workshop for “Power vs.... View Details

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

interconnections across the organization. The second is transitioning from the role of a doer to the role of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

17 Apr 2023
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Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future

Climate Stories Episode #14 – Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future Climate Story #14 examines sustainable manufacturing and retailing from the... View Details

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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog

spring course, Strategies for Value Creation (SVC) 1417, students cannot take both of them. Career Focus This course provides a general management perspective on corporate finance and is designed to improve... View Details

02 May 2023
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From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

your MBA experience From the first day of my MBA, my classmates knew that I loved music and wanted to explore careers in Entertainment and Media. On the professional front, I... View Details

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