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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
talking to classmates, I found that the experience of losing status impacted them strongly.” Her observations might have ended there had she not taken CareerLeader, a business career self-assessment survey, just prior to matriculation and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When Mary Lindley Burton (MBA 1976) came to HBS in the mid-1970s, the Smith College religion major “felt like a fish out of water.” What saved her, she says, was a second-year course on View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
value to a large proportion of alumni: careers, lifelong learning, and networking. Careers: Click on Careers on the Alumni homepage and you will find an array of services and resources, including career counseling, self-assessment tools,... View Details
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Partners & Families | MBA
partners for professional and personal development: Two 40-minute 1:1 coaching sessions, Career Leader Self-Assessment Tool, Electronic LinkedIn makeover, Job Search Resources, Harvard Job Boards, and Baker Library (1:1 consultations with... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
basic self-assessment tool that nonprofit board members can use. Calling it the "Four by Four Report," Herzlinger suggested that nonprofits ask themselves four specific questions and address the answers to their four constituencies:... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
This kind of success is not achieved through the single-minded pursuit of any one of these things as if the goal were "never enough." In other words, the endless pursuit of any one of these goals may actually diminish one's success, as View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Career Tools & Resources | MBA
various student-led clubs, which network with organizations. Focused Job Search In a student's second year, they will work closely with their career coach to continue to adjust based on their summer experience. Whether it means readjusting their job search or... View Details
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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
self-assessment approach. For many leaders, deciding to join a corporate board is an exciting time when you intentionally step back from leading teams and instead, use your hard-won experience to advise and guide . While making this shift... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
have one piece of paper with an introductory sentence, brief notes on four or five points that you want to make, and a conclusion sentence. You advise against doing too much career planning. Why? I think people should keep their options open. An annual View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Minority Executives in Corporate America. From 1993 to 1998, he taught and developed materials for the widely subscribed second-year elective, Self-Assessment and Career Development. The course uses cases, experiential exercises, and... View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog
power. The exposure to the development and uses of power in many different social settings including the private, public, social enterprise and non-for-profit sectors, and at various points in history will allow a comprehensive analysis of power in action. In addition,... View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
staying true to yourself. The author sets out a series of questions in each of the areas, illustrating the impact of self-assessment through vivid accounts of real executives. Although the questions sound simple, people are often... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
from a script. Instead, have one piece of paper with an introductory sentence, brief notes on four or five points that you want to make, and a conclusion sentence. Q: You advise against doing too much career planning. Why? A: I think people should keep their options... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
for examining this question. Results indicate that nonnative English-speaking employees experienced status loss regardless of their English fluency level. Yet variability in their self-assessed fluency-an achieved status marker-was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
maximizers as we are negotiating, creating the most value we can, and then when it's all over flip on the satisficer button and bliss out," says Wheeler. "But that's not easy." This is where the second part of the app comes in. Once the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
entrepreneurship, and we also highlight the relevance of social networks, self-assessed skills, and attitudes toward risk. Moreover, we find that regulation plays a critical role, particularly for those individuals who become... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
in the morning” — Parker missed managing people, not a priority for junior investment bankers. “I realized that money, by itself, was not enough of a motivator for me.” (He came to the same conclusion after writing a 100-page View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
resonates with me and in terms of being at my own crossroads, trying to figure out where I should go next," says Kraus, who this fall is coteaching the MBA elective Founders' Dilemmas and is working with Senior Fellow Timothy Butler on a new entrepreneurial leadership... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
meet and network with other LGBTQ alumni. What was your favorite/most impactful class at HBS? Paul: There was a class in 1980 called Self-Assessment and Career Development. I came out in that class and that changed my life. John: My... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
making his job easier, he said. Dorrance led seminars on leadership for his women soccer players, ran leadership self-assessments and team ratings, and then let teams choose their own captains. Leaders find the best people they can,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter