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- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Take the time, propose an hour meeting with someone regularly, if they’re a mentor, and they’re willing to do it. DM: Taylor, what is the advice that Byron has in this book that you think is most relevant to your HBS classmates? TB: One... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
experiences, and the meaning of leadership. Click on each heading below to read their responses. What career advice do you have for today's female MBAs? As a trailblazer, how did you proceed when there was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven children of a Polish immigrant, began his Goldman View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
cofounded a telecommunications company. I Quit, and Choose Work That Aligns with My Soul by Karyn Pettigrew (MBA 1990) (KPConsulting) A motivational speaker, coach, and consultant, Pettigrew helps people align their careers with work that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
organizing the Lean In Community (on Facebook, of course). Some of her advice is useful no matter one's gender, given Sandberg's disparate career stops at Facebook and Google, the Treasury Department, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
An effective job search needs to be enormously disciplined, says Neil S. MacKenna (MBA 1949). Over the last two decades, hundreds of HBS alumni have benefited from MacKenna’s experience as an outplacement professional and the founder of View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Department at Gibbons PC In Newark, led a conversation about the responsibilities of managers and companies when an employee has been named in a complaint. Panelist Kenna Baudin (MBA 1994), head of U.S. private equity at executive search firm Egon Zehnder, gave View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik led the formation of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, an informal group that attracted a committed corps of like-minded students. They gathered weekly to discuss start-up ideas and seek advice from local VCs and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
GE’s Immelt Urges MBAs to Dream Big, Work Hard
Immelt In June, Class Day speaker Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA ’82), chairman and CEO of General Electric, sent 878 MBA graduates off into the world with a pep talk in which he cited competitiveness and creativity as keys to business success. Immelt also dispensed lots of... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
But he credits a dedicated community of social workers, as well as his birth and adopted families, with helping him eventually flourish. That gratitude helped spark his career in community service and his deep interest in exploring how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho
return to prior employers. Median total compensation was $140,000, up slightly from last year’s $138,125 for the Class of 2006. For future job seekers, this fall MBA Career Services, in conjunction with student club leaders, introduced... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Brigham Young, thinking that I should give back. Years later, I came out of my experience at Harvard empowered and determined to give back.” That thinking reshaped Frey’s career path, and, after a brief return to California, he left Cisco... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
just a numbers cruncher. That was the first time I had ever considered my Harvard MBA to be a career liability. Producing a television show well requires a surprising amount of general management expertise. So much of the job is analyzing... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
color, diversifying boards, and leveraging diversity in organizations, as well as one called Thrive, which is designed to encourage career advancement for underrepresented minorities with 5 to 7 years of experience (with an emphasis on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Paulson Sees World of Opportunity
most successful of you will embrace change.” A 32-year veteran of Goldman Sachs who was named the firm’s chairman and CEO in 1999, Paulson urged his audience to pursue careers in areas that may not be trendy but that best conform to their... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
better." Graduating from HBS at the dawn of the psychedelic '70s, the Class of 1971 nevertheless seemed to follow in the footsteps of generations of MBAs before them, opting for careers on Wall Street or in manufacturing, real estate, or... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 10 May 2023
- News
Alumna Snags an Emmy
my internship at YouTube during HBS that I realized I could make a career out of these interests. The YouTube TV team was just starting to form in summer 2015 with a goal of reimagining cable TV and I was really intrigued by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
such as declining female enrollment at business schools and the pressures of balancing work and family. "Women students would come to me for advice on career and lifestyle decisions," she says. "It felt good... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Signify, Symmons, and Haier and interviews with thought leaders and business executives from top companies including Amazon, ABB, Tesla, Samsung, and Google, this book provides practical advice for product-making companies as they embark... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
least short term," Weedon explains. "Despite the demanding weekday evenings of our members," concludes Weedon, who runs BoardSearch, a top-level executive search and career transition advice firm, "our... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean