career - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 2022
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Is there a typical long-term career path for people who become entrepreneurs through acquisition? What choices do searchers and investors make subsequent to their first search? The former searchers profiled here identified five common longer-term career paths and... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Investment Portfolio; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry

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Vanessa Wu

Vanessa is happy to support fellow students in exploring and navigating career options in management consulting and energy & sustainability space. Vanessa started her career as a consultant at BCG after... View Details

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Lobna Dawoud

During her RC summer, Lobna interned at an investment bank and specialized in Financial Institutions Group. She is passionate about helping students with career visioning, setting a recruitment strategy, interview prep, networking tips,... View Details

27 Apr 2022
News

How to Decline a Job Offer

26 May 2021
Video

Megan Maloney (MBA 2022)

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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

22 Dec 2014
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Donna Khalife

06 Mar 2024
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A Peek at the MBA Experience

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

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

21 Nov 2023
Cold Call Podcast

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

Keywords: Re: Linda A. Hill; Air Transportation

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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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

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Adam Bronfin

situations. He enjoys assisting students who previously came from the industry and are looking to further their career in real estate at HBS and beyond. He is also able to help students looking to pivot from an unrelated field into real... View Details

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Laurie Matthews

Whether working with clients on their own leadership development or focusing on navigating a particular career juncture, Laurie helps her clients crack their own codes to figure out how to make the most of their professional and life... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entrepreneurship; Hospitality; Retail

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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

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Tricia Peralta

Tricia has always been passionate about healthcare, social impact, and strategy, and has explored career paths including corporate strategy, management consulting, project management across private, public, and social sectors.... View Details

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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

Hassina Bahadurzada

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

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Jeffrey Noonan

Jeff enjoys helping students better understand the different stages of investing and pursue the stage that is right for them. Having considered post-MBA careers across VC, growth, PE, and public markets Jeff is well versed in the... View Details

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