Career Planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

business will pay for the services of your graduates if they don’t ask the hard questions? Meeting others who can advance your career isn’t all there is, maybe that is what “nobody really understood.” Timing is everything. Light, “an... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

post-secondary education to support and expand areas like career and technical training, and encouraging expansion of research and development in the US. There are a lot of areas of common ground. And there are a lot of opportunities to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

higher income, where there might be more of an incentive due to higher returns. Only about half of those censured for abuses, however, were fired. And half of those found a job at another firm within the next year. “The career prospects... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

Clairol in 2001 for $5 billion and Germany's Wella in 2003 for $7 billion—P&G's largest acquisitions ever—are already paying off by making the company's beauty-care division one of the most profitable beauty-care operations in the world. A history major at Hamilton... View Details

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

and healthy, and ensuring we didn’t close down. After a dizzying first few weeks of response and adaptation, we took a breath and reached out to McKinsey & Company to help us forecast demand . We needed projections and we needed to View Details

12 Feb 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

about their career dreams when a bright-eyed 11-year-old boy shared his plan to be a scientist. “I want to bomb the enemy,” he told her. Mendhro pressed him about his response until he confided: “I don’t... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

Egypt. "It felt like the opportunities for career growth were more available in New York," Enan recalls. "And the other trade-off was around quality of life. I loved going to the theater with friends, taking improv and writing classes.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

26 May 2022
News

Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

Nagarjuna adds that this year it was particularly challenging to organize this capstone event given the pandemic. “We fast-tracked all aspects, from planning to execution, in order to have the event organized in time,” he says “Noom was... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

decide, for example, when to disclose plans for the merger, what restrictions to place on insider use of information, what counts as fair and proper accounting and taxation, and how to treat employees who may lose their jobs. "In M&As;... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

Profile

Dana Hoffmann

Before she applied to HBS, Dana Hoffmann seemed to be on a dream career trajectory. With a master’s degree in applied mathematics, she had worked as a financial analyst at Symantec, the Silicon Valley security software giant, and was... View Details

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

as a business student at nearby Brigham Young University, pursing a degree in organizational behavior. The original plan was to go into accountancy, but a finance internship was enough to convince her that just crunching numbers wasn’t... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

29 Apr 2016
News

The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)

outcome.” As an accomplished sailor, what parallels, if any, do you see between sailing and your career? “I think athletics always have close parallels to business. Some examples I have noticed throughout my (very short) career include:... View Details

September 2017
Case

Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal

In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details

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25 May 2023
Blog Post

6 Best Practices for Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Interview Process

Inclusive Video Interviews When having an in-person interview, the backdrop is generally at your office or on campus. However, with virtual recruiting, interviews will often occur using video calls where the background may be the candidate’s home. If you View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Apr 2019
News

Leading Schools That Change Lives

from 6 percent to 15 percent in the last seven years and continues to grow. “We’re not yet where we want to be,” he stresses, “but we’re making meaningful progress on a challenge that’s been historically difficult for schools.” Helping Kids Beat the Odds Kennealey’s... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 1996
News

"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

team-based projects in the areas of Business History (The Dynamics of Capitalist Revolutions); Leadership, Values, and Decision Making (LVDM); Quantitative Methods (Lectures and Problems); Applied Personal Skills; Career Development; and... View Details

05 Jun 2017
News

Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

new skills that boards should be developing for issues such as digital or cyber security,” she says. “And now I have a clear and personal action plan for moving forward, including what career choices I... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

into a much-needed windfall for a host of cash-strapped nonprofits. Since cofounding Working Assets in 1985, Laura Scher has helped the company channel nearly $20 million to organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Amnesty International, View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jan 2003
News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

to lymphoma and later as a practicing physician in his native Switzerland. Both his years in medicine and the business career that followed have focused on helping people. So when researchers at Novartis came up with a drug that promised... View Details

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