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12 PM – 1 PM EST, 21 Jan 2016
Webinars: Career

How to Snag - and Keep - Your Dream Job

In the old days, a good career was linear. It began at prestigious universities and progressed through prestigious organizations, with few diversions or deviations along the way. Now, a career is like a collage, and prestige in jobs matters far less than impact. Life's... View Details

Career Coach

Kelsey Young

Kelsey worked in impact roles for five years prior to business school and switched careers from traditional finance to impact investing in 2022. Kelsey can help student navigating various recruiting processes including: 1) exploring a... View Details

Venture Capital Journey

Venture Capital Journey (VCJ) is an MBA elective field course for students who plan to embark on a career in venture capital. The focus of the course is to provide students with frameworks, tools, a network, and hands on experience in preparation... View Details

Career Coach

Vinit Hase

Vinit, a consultant turned seasoned operator, has amassed diverse experience across five global regions before attending HBS. He is dedicated to educating students from various backgrounds about Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (EtA), also known as search funds.... View Details

27 Apr 2022
News

How to Decline a Job Offer

August 2011 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Mary Griffin at Derby Foods

By: Anthony J. Mayo and Joshua D. Margolis

Mary Griffin, Vice President of Consumer Products, must provide feedback to one of her direct reports, Simon York. York is a strong performer, but he has displayed some poor interpersonal skills in the manner in which he interacts with his team and the production... View Details

Keywords: Outcome or Result; Training; Interpersonal Communication; Labor and Management Relations; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Teams; Managerial Roles

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05 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Working as a Software Engineer in Industrial Technology

Tell us about your career prior to HBS?I like to joke that prior to HBS I went from a career in abstract to applied philosophy, with an ever increasing focus on the applied. I started out on a very academic... View Details

Keywords: Technology

21 Nov 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Cold Call: Building a More Equitable Culture at Delta Air Lines

Keywords: Re: Linda A. Hill; Air Transportation

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

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Naiyya Saggi

Organizations gave me exposure to lively debates around the best models for creating wide-scale societal impact and the role of business in doing so today. It would be an understatement to say that HBS has shaped merely my career path.... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Consulting

02 Nov 2015
Video

Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015)

24 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

job, she realized that there was something missing—she knew that she needed more to give her career an edge. “I could sense an increasing appetite for data and data-driven managerial decision-making,” says Ho. “I felt that this was a... View Details

Keywords: Technology

Dec 21 2015
Testimonial

Gaining Personal Insight Through Professional Development

Career Coach

Mimi Sax

Mimi enjoys assisting students who are interested in pursuing careers in social impact but are unsure of the specific opportunities available coming from an MBA program. She is well-equipped to help students explore View Details

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

06 May 2014
Blog Post

What is #LifeatHBS really like?

Who are Harvard Business School students? What are they passionate about and what do they like to do for fun? Through our student profiles and Recruiting Report, we often highlight the unique career visions of our students and how they... View Details

Career Coach

Troy Peterson

Troy (HBS’19, West Point ‘08) has 15+ years of experience in technical program management, organizational leadership, and product development & operations. Troy has worked in roles across the tech ecosystem from startups/growth (OpenAI & Stripe) to big tech... View Details

19 Dec 2014
News

Harvard Family, Work Survey Points To High Expectations, Disappointing Results For Women

11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

at HBS. Before we kick off the ABCs, let us introduce ourselves. We are HBS CPD – Harvard Business School Career & Professional Development. A – Aldrich. Aldrich Hall is one of our main academic buildings where most MBA classes are... View Details

Apr 03 2018
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