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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
hopes he might find some early stage treatments that might prove helpful for his son. Rodakis had a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology and had spent the early part of his View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
this “working on material” session (as comedians would call it) with a sneak peek into how we are reconceptualizing career development post-pandemic and the implications for us and our organizations. Build the Life You Want: The Art and... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
The U.S. Job Search for International Students
given student’s unique career vision, they are going to utilize different approaches to the job search, and a lot of this revolves around timing. Some companies, typically the large MBA employers – such as large consulting, financial... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 22 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
I Found My Future at HBS and You Can Too
plunging in and out of puddles of melted snow. My future career was far from my mind, but even at that young age, I was contemplating the world and my place in it. In Appalachia, opportunity ebbs and flows with the demand for steel and... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
of directors of Medtronic, Inc., a company known for its commitment to effective corporate governance, must prepare for the departure of Chairman & CEO Bill George and the retirement of four long-time directors. The company had experienced rapid growth in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Program FAQs - Summer Venture in Management
management degree can have on their professional and personal lives, and we want this experience to be used as a personal and career planning tool. If I am employed, how will taking time off to attend SVMP... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
built her career on increasingly large line leadership positions, such as the president of ABC Network, and has no experience in getting things done without line authority. The case lays out the steps she... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2014
- Article
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today's senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they'll pursue and which they'll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams. "Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 3 (March 2014): 58–66.
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
Africa. 3 Unilever's total employment was over 350,000 in the mid-1970s, or around seven times larger than that of Procter & Gamble (hereafter P&G), its main rival in the U.S. detergent and toothpaste markets. A World-wide Investor An View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- Op-Ed
Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't
focus more narrowly on specific initiatives and projects. They usually rely on their managers (or in many cases, BTLs) for a cross-enterprise view. Developing these types of leaders is more important than ever, specifically for employee retention. It’s no longer common... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
those skills prepared him for business and law school, as well as for his career in both fields. After being admitted to Harvard Law School, Ogunlesi realized that his aversion to numbers might hinder his success, so he submitted an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Reframing to signal competence For the study, the researchers set up five experiments to tease out how reframing emotion as passion affected both perceptions of competence and... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
Even the most loyal, long-serving employee may consider resigning from a job once or twice in a career in order to reboot or get ahead. Large organizations can offer more lateral opportunities to further your development, but the higher... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
overlap between those two pursuits. But over the last 15 years, Roosevelt, now a managing director at Barclays, says he has seen “a remarkable convergence” of his career as an investment banker and his deeply held passion—inherited from... View Details
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About - Business & Environment
materials about business & environment More on Curriculum Leadership Michael Toffel Faculty Chair; Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Professor Michael Toffel has been interested in how companies can reduce their environmental impacts since the... View Details
- February 2022
- Article
Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and William L. Skimmyhorn
Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase financial distress due to increased borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan.... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Savings; Automatic Enrollment; Choice Architecture; Nudge; Financial Distress; Retirement; Saving; Borrowing and Debt; Behavior
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and William L. Skimmyhorn. "Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt." Journal of Finance 77, no. 1 (February 2022): 403–447.
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Rafaella Mazza
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? An internal feeling of inquietude regarding my career path and future opportunities and a desire to “go back to school” as a growth platform. Also, the support of mentors who believed I... View Details
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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
focuses on the care of all of these children with cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists all of whom are supported by specialized nurses, perfusionists, respiratory therapists, social workers and others who have accumulated vast View Details