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firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

fantastic job raising sponsorship funds. All in all, we will pursue both paths in the future to engage our alumni in-person and virtually.” The club has established a fairly selective process for evaluating potential honorees, according... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Dec 2016
News

The Story Behind the Stories

business school? Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: I really believed that business is among the most powerful forces changing the world for the better. And also, for the worse, but I wanted to be part of the for the better part. And really, have a View Details

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

outside innovators? A: The first main advantage is the presence of multiple parallel paths to solve an innovation problem. In both markets and communities, external innovators will explore innovation landscapes that are often unknown and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

Personalized Medicine,” a Harvard Business Review article that outlines an agenda that could hasten the transition from “trial-and-error” therapies for life-threatening illnesses to a more targeted line of attack. Aspinall began her View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

share the same ethnic, educational, or career background are more likely to syndicate with each other. This homophily reduces the probability of investment success, and the detrimental effect is most prominent for early-stage investments.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

What We’re Reading

Meaning, by Viktor Frankl, about four years after HBS, when I was reflecting on a major career decision point. While the book is rich with insights, two big concepts continue to shape me today. First is the idea that two people can... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

they do form.' And that's a positive approach, where you're focused on explaining the positive and what brings it about." Similarly, when researching the career paths of minority executives in the 1990s... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

2008 Financial Crisis ultimately found more interesting career paths than some of the previous sort of standard choices that we’d all thought about. I think there was a lot more stress and uncertainty, but... View Details

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

lucrative gig that taught him a lot about business but ultimately landed him in prison. Once he’d served his 14 months, Blakeman sought to build a career and turn his life around. But when his criminal record kept him from getting a job,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

her post-conflict Afghanistan. Nawabi had lived in exile in Europe for three decades and had a successful career in fashion. Explores the challenges facing Nawabi on her return to her native Afghanistan—as a woman pursuing an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of the last decade, half of the patented inventors in Silicon Valley could trace an indirect collaborative path to one... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on them for the rest of their... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

13 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

However, there is also considerable good news. More women are on career paths with high earnings potential today than ever before.7 They have yet to close the earnings gap completely, but their increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

2004). Young alumni also have been featured at the regional events. Among those who have spoken about the impact of HBS on their careers have been: Eric Calderon (MBA 2013), Carolyn Wolff Dorros (MBA 2003), Lisa M. Gunther (MBA 2000),... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

forgotten sectionmate. Following are brief updates on some of the more far-flung members of the Class of 1977. Whether their life journeys have led them to distant parts of the globe, down untraditional career paths, or on quests for... View Details

02 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

entrepreneurial path into healthcare. I wondered what would be possible if we thought about women’s health more expansively and holistically, beyond avoiding or achieving pregnancy. I entered the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science... View Details

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

briefly returned to Goldman Sachs after graduation before choosing a new career path as a firefighter in San Diego. He also runs an online mentoring program for high school students, PrepWell Academy, which... View Details

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