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Shantanu Rege
Inclined toward math and physics and eager to learn among "the smartest people," Shantanu Rege went to the Indian Institute of Technology, "keen on engineering and looking forward to a PhD and a career in academia." In... View Details
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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
he wants to “gain more satisfaction regarding connections made and knowledge gained in the development landscape of Detroit and cities like it. I was born and raised in Detroit. I see this a great jump-off point for a View Details
- 26 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health
Health Care During the internship, I had the opportunity to interview 30+ employees from their on-the-ground workforce to better understand their drivers of satisfaction and opportunities to improve efficiency. Through this, I gained... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
PTO experiments. These team members were much more likely than their colleagues on teams not participating in PTO to rate their overall satisfaction with work and work-life positively. For example: 51 percent (versus 27 percent) were... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
pursued a variety of career aspirations. Heffernan trained as a doctor (graduating first in his class), practiced briefly, and decided that medicine was not the right fit. He tried investment banking with Goldman Sachs for a few years,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
expand its pool of women, minority, and international applicants. Toward that end, the Women's Student Association, for example, is helping MBA Admissions identify women who might not otherwise consider HBS in their career plans. Multiple... View Details
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Diversity & Entrepreneurship: Race & Gender Gaps Persist - Race, Gender & Equity
included, seem to be happy with their career path: they are less likely than other employed alumni to be considering changing jobs. Likelihood of Alumni Leaving Their Current Organization They also report higher View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
graduate school, earned a master's in education, and is currently substitute teaching in anticipation of a full-time position. As the father of now seven-year-old Alex, Cassell has already found satisfaction contributing to his son's... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
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Akshay Ghulati
Akshay Ghulati's career has been a hybrid of continuity and the conquest of new territory. After graduating from Wharton, he initially returned home to New Delhi to work in his family's real estate business. "I started a new division... View Details
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How to Onboard Recently Graduated MBAs - Recruiting
toward a new ambition. “Many MBAs are switchers,” notes Kristin Brennan, HBS Career Coach. “They’ve used their education to go from one functional area to another. That can be exciting, but as new hires they’re navigating a new set of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
home office in London’s Berkeley Square is a long way from Salem, Massachusetts, where Lewis’s father was a fireman. “My career happened because someone took a chance on me,” he says, alluding to that long-ago summer internship. In... View Details
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Ameel Somani
career in business." After graduating from college, Ameel pursued investment banking. "It was a good fit, because it allowed me to think about many different businesses," he says. As an analyst at CIBC, "I learned to... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
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Pitching In for Female Leaders
doing my job and what the rules and regulations and my job description dictated. And that was the point when I sat down and I thought, there must be thousands of other women in the world who are facing very similar challenges in their personal lives, as well as their... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
friends were in the minority among their HBS classmates, many of whom aspired to join Wall Street. As it turned out, “entrepreneurial resourcefulness,” as Puritz calls it, has served them well throughout their careers and in the launch of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
Navigating this road is very challenging, because it forces us to understand ourselves and screen out many of the external forces that profoundly impact how we think about our careers and our lives. This approach takes courage and hard... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
the workforce-management platform that Auerbach cofounded in 2016. Earlier in her career as a consultant she had seen the effects of inflexible workplaces. Around her, many of her top women colleagues were dropping out of the workforce... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
and retraining, and employee satisfaction surveys periodically measure how well the company is meeting its stated goals. “Today, as I travel around the country, it’s what binds us together,” says Rogers. “We really practice what we... View Details
- August 2023
- Technical Note
Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling
By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives; Human Needs; Satisfaction; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; Music Industry; Education Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Perlow, Leslie, and Hannah Weisman. "Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling." Harvard Business School Technical Note 424-023, August 2023.
- 01 Apr 1997
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The Businesslike Gourmet: Karen Page on America's Foodservice Industry
ten careers for the 1990s, with 50,000 to 85,000 new chefs needed annually. What's behind this boom? A big factor has been women entering the work force; they don't have as much time for shopping and cooking. Today, that traditional... View Details