career path - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2018
Supplement

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (B): The Commitment Decision

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

Sandra Brown, a middle manager at a biotech company who has led internal and external movements for change over the last few years, faces a decision. Whether to continue to work for change at the company or move on to pursue new opportunities elsewhere, where her new... View Details

Keywords: Digital; Stakeholder Engagement; Managing Change; Career Path; Health Care Industry; Quality; Leading Change; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions

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Career Tools & Resources | MBA

receive 1:1 support throughout the more “tactical” elements of their summer experience search—including resume and LinkedIn prep, interview practice, and guidance on negotiations. Student Fellowships HBS supports diverse career View Details

20 Jan 2022
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Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability and addressing the... View Details

March 2018
Supplement

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (C): Raising Quality in a Healthcare Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

Using digital and social media tools and lessons learned from prior change campaigns as a middle manager in a large biotech company, Sandra Brown continued in a new role in the quality division, engaging staff in a quality movement at the company. She had found a new... View Details

Keywords: Digital; Grassroots Movement; Managing Change; Career Path; Stakeholder Engagement; Engagement; Health Care Industry; Quality; Leading Change; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Social Media; Health Industry

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15 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture

Rachel Sanders (MBA 2017) started her professional career working in healthcare focused investment banking. After spending four years working at Raymond James focused on middle market transactions, M&A, and the intersection of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

01 Jun 2024
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Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 22 Mar 2018
Webinars: Career

How to Prepare for and Transition Back from a Career Break

A career break may be the furthest thing from your mind right now. But looking ahead, there are expected and unexpected reasons why you might take a break from your career. What steps make sense to take now, in order to lay the groundwork for a successful career... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance

Constance “CJ” Jones (MBA 2008) had a tough time as a student at her middle school in Durham, North Carolina. Often the only person of color in the academically advanced classes, she felt rejected by both her white and her black peers for being different. “I didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; public education; leadership; charter schools; career paths; work-life balance; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Assistance The Program supports graduates pursuing career paths in nonprofit, public sector organizations, and for-profit social enterprises which often have compensation levels below the MBA average. View Details

11 Oct 2021
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Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

years at HBS, allowed her to pick up experiences, skills, and knowledge that would help her carve a path from chemical engineering and supply chain to climate operations strategy at KKR Capstone and climate investment at KKR ESG. Sheil’s... View Details

07 May 2015
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Career Change: From the Military to Consulting

Exposed to new functions and industries through case studies, classmates, and the resources of our Career and Professional Development (CPD) Office, nearly 70% of HBS students will pursue ventures very different from the ones that led... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions

develop effective strategies for building new leadership roles in business and nonprofit organizations. Many participants, whose careers had diverged from more traditional business paths when their... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Professional Services

17 Jun 2025
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Balancing Career Stability with Creative Pursuits with Jeff Roslund (MBA 2013)

more risks earlier in my career. I was so focused on quickly paying off loans and maximizing earnings instead of defining success more on my own terms and recognizing the immense value of time. I’ve learned that a career View Details

20 Feb 2019
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Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals

Think About Your Next and Last Job(s) The first step in transition is to assess what’s out there. I recommend veterans to research potential career paths extensively before determining what education or... View Details

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Career Support & Exploration Funds | MBA

Career Support & Exploration Funds Attending Harvard Business School is a profound and life-changing experience. So it’s no surprise that so many students change career paths... View Details

June 2018
Teaching Note

Sandra Brown Goes Digital

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This Teaching Note presents strategies for teaching the Sandra Brown case series, which follows Brown's... View Details

Keywords: Change Leadership; Change Management; Digital; Engagement; Stakeholder Engagement; Grassroots Movement; Health Care Industry; Career Path; Innovation; Leading Change; Management; Innovation and Management; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality

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15 Mar 2019
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PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

Read Parts 1 and 2 of Military Transition and the JD/MBA: Part 1: Setting Career GoalsPart 2: The Path to your Goals Applying If I haven’t scared you off yet, you want to get down to brass tacks—how you... View Details

05 Mar 2019
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Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

degrees that are popular in the private sector combines a significant list of career options that the typical transitioning veteran seeks to preserve through the transition process pending a final decision about what View Details

06 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman; Legal Services

March 2018
Case

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (A): The Promise and Perils of Social Movements in a Healthcare Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This case follows her career at the company and describes the challenges she faced as a change agent,... View Details