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Mohamed Farid
process—the due diligence and other support work. For me, it's boring. I'm more interested in finding cool companies to invest in than the process of closing the deal." Celebrating the nonconventional paths In fact, Mohamed's career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
I’m on a train right now. Obviously, I look at the experience in a slightly different way than I used to. I now spend almost all the time talking to people who are working on the train and to our customers. The story I tell, which is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
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Starting Off on the Right Foot
When business and career psychologist James Waldroop counsels young executives who are starting assignments in a new company, he urges them to act like anthropologists. “For the first six months on the job, your assignment is to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2022
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Regrets Are Inevitable. Start Learning From Them.
- 26 May 2016
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Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
creator of All in the Family. “I had no experience in the entertainment business, I had never been to Hollywood, and I didn’t know anyone there,” says Horn. “He said, ‘You’re perfect,’ and hired me. He wanted a blank slate.” Perenchio was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Jul 2019
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A Category Leader
created to give people who work in our stores as beauty experts a career path and leadership opportunities. Even today, we have staffers who started as sales associates 15 years ago who run half the country and are leaders in our company.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress
connections are between successful young entrepreneurs and up-and-coming members of the same generation who share comparable career experiences and expectations. Similarly, he says, at Blackhouse, he advises... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Farah Ahmed
at the diversity of learning opportunities available to her. "In the last year,” she says, "I’ve learned so much from classmates, cases, and international school projects. My experience at HBS goes way beyond expectations and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Research Brief: Great Expectations
their goals, and they may even get credit for performance they haven’t actually achieved. “You can do poorly and still be cut more slack if other people think you’re passionate for your work,” he notes. The flip side of this experiment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Next Level
recalls, and then offered her the job. In retrospect, Bond appreciates the warning, and she knows her longtime boss was just looking out for her. But as she speaks about the experience seven years later, in her bright office on the... View Details
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Lauren Burrows
institution. How did your overall HBS experience shape your goals & career path? My two years at HBS gave me the time and space to reflect on and clarify what really mattered to me, both personally and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
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Advancing Opportunities for Others
Carla Harris (MBA 1987) is vice chairman of Morgan Stanley and a 2018 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview she talks about using her stature as an African American business leader to support leadership opportunities for women and people of... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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John Schupbach
For many people, rejection by seventeen medical schools would discourage the further pursuit of a career in medicine or health care. But John Schupbach decided not to turn from the path. Instead, he took on the most challenging course he... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
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Brett Laffel
Lastly, while I loved my job, I also loved having the opportunity to return to an academic environment and challenge myself via fascinating discussions both in and out of class and via course projects that I was able to choose for myself on my own. How has your HBS... View Details
- 13 May 2022
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Approach Your Personal Brand Like a Project Manager
- 30 Sep 2020
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3 Tips for a Smooth Transition into Retirement
- 27 Apr 2017
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Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World
tuition. “They said, ‘We’re not going to buy you a car but we are going to pay for your education.’ It wasn’t until I was older that I really understood the importance of that,” he says. An awareness of how challenging it is for students to be fully engaged in the HBS... View Details
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Jason Flood
chemotherapy treatments to address his cancer. Today, Jason is cancer-free, but the experience proved transformative. “It was draining,” Jason says, “but it was a communal experience with a whole bunch of... View Details