Personal Development and Career - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Monica Higgins' research, teaching, and course development activities all focus on the study of careers. Her work speaks to a particular subfield within the careers academic audience-one that adopts a 'relational' approach to career theory. A relational model is... View Details

28 Nov 2012
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A Novel Approach to Business Books

March 2023 (Revised April 2023)
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Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Sarah L. Abbott

Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised locations and $654 million in annual system-wide sales. Sun had spent years working to get “the right people in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Family Business; Franchising; Health Care; Women-owned Businesses; Growth And Scaling; Organization; Franchise Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; United States

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05 Mar 2019
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Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

military members who seek credentials as they enter civilian life. The JD/MBA is a strong credential, but I urge veterans not to think of it as a tab or badge to be added to a long list of professional and View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

nearby Hingham, Massachusetts, that she helped create and successfully led over the past eight years. Bourneuf came to HBS eager to gain exposure to developments in the broader business environment View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

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Christine Van Dae

Christine is the Associate Director, Market Intelligence in the HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) Office. In her role, Christine oversees the collection and... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

utilizes the one asset that exists in abundance in even the poorest and most fragile social sectors - people's self-initiative. It increases the productivity of the person engaged in economic activity,... View Details

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Research in Black and White | Baker Library

Blout, a biochemist and Polaroid’s associate director of research, to create a film coater. The coater, included in every film pack and applied by consumers to their images with a swab, served as a washing... View Details

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

operations. Through its financial incentives, personal and professional development initiatives, and worker-appreciation programs, NatureSweet... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2000 (Revised September 2005)
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Coca-Cola Company (A), The: The Rise and Fall of M. Douglas Ivester

By: Michael D. Watkins, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

Chronicles M. Douglas Ivester's 26-month term as chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Co., and how he navigated the company through a series of what some considered "small crises." View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry

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Working Groups, Upcoming Event, and Resources | About

curriculum; understand responses to recent events and the lessons learned; and develop opportunities to educate and engage the community.... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

organization, they do so with the full expectation that the experience will further their own development, both personal and professional. When Meredith L. Weenick (HBS '02) arrived at HBS, she had seven... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

24 Jul 2000
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Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

number of very sharp and very important junctures." Critical Junctures The first critical juncture was the invention of the printing press, which made it possible to have a media industry to begin with. The second major juncture... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

(mergers), turnarounds, crisis management, scaling, reinvention, and career action planning. The course will develop skills in diagnosing, designing, View Details

Leslie A. Perlow

Leslie A. Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She leads the Crafting Your Life Special Project, dedicated to helping individuals make purposeful life choices while gathering... View Details

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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library

observation aptly characterizes her own abilities as an inspiring mentor and leader. In her short life, she contributed to major developments in a pioneering photographic technology View Details

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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

three most visited countries in Europe year in year out, with tourism making up 13% of GDP. Amid such rich cultural heritage lay the foundations of the birth and development of modern capitalism to which... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

Wildlife to Winetasting "The driving force behind the region's growth is South Africa," says HBS professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the faculty chairman of the conference and the author of a 1997 comprehensive case study that looks at the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

17 Apr 2024
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New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

gives them a personalized geo-tagged best practices schedule to help increase the per-acre yield of their lands. Therefore, the two major outcomes from Bagh-e are increased financial inclusion and per-acre... View Details

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