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- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
base. In the winter, nothing was better than curling up in front of a Spangler fireplace—the warmth, the hot chocolate, the large weird art on the walls, the comforting flow of foot traffic—it made studying almost too enjoyable.” What View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
experiences, and the meaning of leadership. Click on each heading below to read their responses. What career advice do you have for today's female MBAs? As a trailblazer, how did you proceed when there was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
Immelt In June, Class Day speaker Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA ’82), chairman and CEO of General Electric, sent 878 MBA graduates off into the world with a pep talk in which he cited competitiveness and creativity as keys to business success. Immelt also dispensed lots of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik led the formation of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, an informal group that attracted a committed corps of like-minded students. They gathered weekly to discuss start-up ideas and seek advice from local VCs and... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
the firm's culture as well as to nurture its leadership by overseeing career development and appointing the heads of our offices and practice groups." Looking ahead, Gupta observes that despite the current wave of megamergers, "We believe... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
just a numbers cruncher. That was the first time I had ever considered my Harvard MBA to be a career liability. Producing a television show well requires a surprising amount of general management expertise. So much of the job is analyzing... View Details
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
my internship at YouTube during HBS that I realized I could make a career out of these interests. The YouTube TV team was just starting to form in summer 2015 with a goal of reimagining cable TV and I was really intrigued by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
such as declining female enrollment at business schools and the pressures of balancing work and family. "Women students would come to me for advice on career and lifestyle decisions," she says. "It felt good... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live, work, or travel in Asia; that's... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
say to people out there with a mental illness who have kept their condition a secret at work? What sort of advice would you give them? Switz: I would first, suggest compassion with themselves. It's very difficult to navigate how and when... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
skills in the house, spent his after-school hours submitting hundreds of job applications on her behalf. But even after following all the advice he could mine from Google and the public library, they didn’t get any call-backs. It was Ng’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
least short term," Weedon explains. "Despite the demanding weekday evenings of our members," concludes Weedon, who runs BoardSearch, a top-level executive search and career transition advice firm, "our... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
An effective job search needs to be enormously disciplined, says Neil S. MacKenna (MBA 1949). Over the last two decades, hundreds of HBS alumni have benefited from MacKenna’s experience as an outplacement professional and the founder of View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
if or when they want them. In terms of similarities between the generations, when we asked our 4,005 respondents for advice for women of color in the workplace, the universal answer was never give up. With this level of ambition, we... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a real estate investment company investing in foreclosed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
help might you get?” is really the first task for so many parents, including me. JH: And what other advice would you have for parents who need a sort of reset at this moment? DD: So if you’re listening to this, raise your hand if you feel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
Anderson: Solicit help from a support network when making a significant career change. Monday can be a madhouse, says C. Collins (“Andy”) Anderson III (MBA ’85), DVM, Diplomate ACVS. He set a humeral fracture that a pointer incurred while... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Paulson Sees World of Opportunity
most successful of you will embrace change.” A 32-year veteran of Goldman Sachs who was named the firm’s chairman and CEO in 1999, Paulson urged his audience to pursue careers in areas that may not be trendy but that best conform to their... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
Illustration by Gisela Goppel Illustration by Gisela Goppel By Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) My entire career has been a series of pivots: a friend who convinced me to join his firm, a conversation on an airplane that turned into a new job, a... View Details