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- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
industries and roles completely from what I'd been doing before school, and the financial crisis was really hard for me. It took about a year to find a job, and I took the first reasonable offer I got. The first job was a bad fit. It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors
better search and retrieval of information. Committee members are also developing survey questions and coordinating interviews with career liaisons and club career coordinators to assess alumni awareness, preferences, and needs in career... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
almost any job and then that very rapidly declines and your career is subsequently path dependent, so I certainly didn't appreciate how much it impacts the overall trajectory of your life if you have a failure earlier on. I am one of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
brought Levitt to HBS, when Edward Bursk, editor of the Harvard Business Review, asked the young University of North Dakota professor and author of a recent HBR article, “The Dangers of Social Responsibility,” to stop by the magazine’s offices on his way to a View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
insane amount of energy. To ensure that I can handle everything on my plate, I have developed a routine of prioritizing what really needs to get done. Another similarity between these jobs is that they both are in the spirit of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
of risk capital are contributing increasingly to a massive expansion in new business, all underpinned by a deep social change and a willingness to “do things differently,” especially among the young. Drawing on his experiences and more than 100 View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
efforts to systematically sabotage the project and steal SVB's business model. This book provides actionable advice drawn from meticulous notes Wilcox took from interviews with Party and non-Party members, the business elite, and domestic... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
that keep executives awake at night. But before you can do that, you have to find out what keeps them awake at night. Who did you talk to? At this point, my research associates and I have interviewed over 250 people in the United States... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
BULLETIN: We should probably begin with the most obvious question: Is the job turning out to be what you had expected? CLARK: I'd have to say yes, but more so. I assumed there were many things I had to learn about the School and its... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Helping the Unemployed Find Work and Self-Esteem
neighborhoods. “A chap once came in and told us he had nothing presentable to wear to an interview that afternoon,” Reed relates. “So one of our guys just took off his own suit and gave it to him!” On Friday afternoons, the staff would go... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
operations of their complicated, not-for-profit institutions. "The job of running a museum is much bigger and broader than it once was," observes HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, an expert on nonprofit management who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
and interviews with 91 American media members, this book discusses journalistic values in the digital age, taking a hard look at the ethical challenges of the job while offering hope for the ways journalism... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
revitalize the region’s ecotourism industry. “What was missing in that environment were business skills,” recalls Diamond, whose HBS admissions interview (conducted by phone from the Belize town of Punta Gorda) was interrupted by a balky... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of '97 Placement Statistics Similar for September and January Cohorts
Preliminary placement figures (as of August 1997)* Total September Cohort January Cohort Average satisfaction with job offer (on a scale of 1-low to 7-high) 6.1 6.1 6.1 Average number of companies contacted 20 19 21 Average number of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
More Alumni Books
Growing Up with Harry: Stories of Character by Sherman Baldwin (MBA ’97) (iUniverse) How You( ) Are Like Shampoo for Job Seekers: The Proven Personal Branding System to Help You Succeed in Any Interview and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
Robert S. ("Bob") Gardella cheerfully admits that he found his position as assistant director of Alumni Career Services (ACS) in the most unlikely way: through an ad in the newspaper. Now his job is to help give HBS alumni the skills and... View Details
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