Publications

06 Mar 2024
News

A Peek at the MBA Experience

Career Coach

Mike Beveridge

Mike enjoys helping students understand and navigate the consulting recruiting process as well as careers within the agribusiness and grocery retailing spaces. Having worked in these industries, Mike can provide insight into how firms... View Details

Profile

Frank Spencer

Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with Spencer and other members of his... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate; Services

Career Coach

Ashley McCray

Ashley wants to help students explore the opportunities available to HBS students in the entrepreneurship/VC, CPG, and consulting industries. Ashley has over a decade of career coaching experience and she loves helping students at every... View Details

September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
Case

Emmet Stephenson: Profile of an Entrepreneur

By: Ashish Nanda

Profiles the career of a Emmet Stephenson, the founder of over a dozen successful companies, as a model of entrepreneurship and management. View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career

Jul 23 2015
Testimonial

Challenge Your Thinking and Transform Your Future

03 Dec 2020
HBS Seminar

Negin Golrezaei, MIT Sloan School of Management

October 2004
Background Note

Lifestyle Representations: An Exercise

Instructs students in the completion of an exercise that calls for a visual representation of their current lifestyles. Teaching Purpose: To assist in career development. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career

Find at Harvard

October 2004 (Revised June 2006)
Background Note

A Note on Analyzing and Choosing a Job Offer

Provides insights and observations into the process of analyzing and choosing a job offer. Teaching Purpose: To assist in career planning. View Details

Keywords: Job Offer; Personal Development and Career

Find at Harvard

Hassina is trained as physician and psychologist in Amsterdam and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Stanford University before coming to Harvard to further pursue a scholarly career in healthcare management. At Stanford, Hassina studied social and functional... View Details

27 Apr 2022
News

How to Decline a Job Offer

Career Coach

Jade Haynes

in technology and startups. Jade can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the job experience will look like, and how they can help meet your personal criteria in a post-MBA career. She is happy to help with career... View Details

August 2005 (Revised December 2005)
Case

Coach Knight: The Will to Win

By: Scott A. Snook, Leslie A. Perlow and Brian DeLacey

Successful college basketball coach Bob Knight was fired from his long-time role as basketball coach at Indiana University and hired in the same role at Texas Tech. Considers these events in the context of his long career and provides a context for discussing various... View Details

Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Selection and Staffing; Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Power and Influence; Sports; Indiana; Texas

02 Nov 2015
Video

Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015)

May 1998
Teaching Note

Development Relationships TN

By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy

The final class of the Career Development module of the Self-Assessment and Career Development course (SACD) uses the topic of mentoring and developmental relationships to encourage students to think beyond the point of finding and accepting a suitable job offer. The... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Job Offer; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Strategy

November 1989 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center

Describes a manager's role in developing a staff group responsible for enhancing the efficiency of Xerox's worldwide logistics and inventory management systems. Illustrates a range of management strategies for upward and lateral influence in a complex organizational... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management