Personal Development and Career - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 1993 (Revised April 1994)
Case

David Melcher

By: Shoshana Zuboff

David Melcher contemplates changing his career at midlife. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Transition

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January 2009
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Yieldex CEO Tom Shields was hired by the company's technical founder, Doug Cosman, in October 2007. One of Shields' top priorities is finding a vice president of engineering to manage the company's software development efforts. Shields and Costman disagree about the... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Applications and Software; Engineering; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Development; Information Technology Industry

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August 2023
Case

Salma Qarnain: Spaceships to Broadway

By: Leslie Perlow, Mel Martin and Hannah Weisman

Salma Qarnain, daughter of Pakistani Muslim immigrants, is an engineer trained at Stanford and MIT. She began her career building spacecrafts but 30 years later finds herself pursuing her calling, acting on Broadway. The case explores Qarnain’s career path, family... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships; Theater Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Talent and Talent Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Boston; California

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Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

coaches. In that role, she also led the Career development program team and doubled career development programs... View Details

14 Sep 2011
News

The Church of B-school

David A. Thomas

David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change. He recently served as a... View Details

Keywords: biotechnology; consulting; consumer products; education industry; financial services; media

21 May 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) reflects on how her experience at HBS shaped her career and inspired her to make a difference in her home region of Asia through impact investing. How has your education at HBS helped... View Details

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

percent increase in new patents between firms in those places. “Even in a hybrid world, even in a world of work-from-anywhere, we still need to occasionally meet colleagues in person for social purposes.” Choudhury View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

November 2022
Technical Note

Leader Action Orientations

By: Ryan Raffaelli, Akshaya Varghese and Laura Weimer

Leaders are responsible for planning and executing actions that advance organizational goals. As individuals gain career experience, they tend to develop and rely on implicit mental models that shape how they go about “getting things done.” Without knowing it, most... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Prejudice and Bias; Cognition and Thinking; Decision Making; Behavior

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Career Coach

Roshan Tathed

how these industries recruit, what the job experience will look like, and how they can help meet your personal criteria in a post-MBA career. He is happy to help with career... View Details

Career Coach

Imam Akinlade

tech, Imam can share key insights into how to assess each of these industries against your personal post-MBA job criteria as well as what to expect in each of these industries from sourcing to recruitment View Details

15 Oct 2014
Blog Post

HBS Class of 2016

Fall is such an enjoyable time of year at HBS - the campus is buzzing with excitement as the new school year begins. Over the past month, our office of Career and Professional View Details

Career Coach

Shub Chhokra

Having worked across all these industries, Shub can provide insight on how these industries recruit, personal brand positioning, cover letter/resume reviews, career visioning/mapping, View Details

04 Jun 2012
News

New vaccine delivery process wins Harvard University President's Challenge for social entrepreneurship

01 Apr 2022
Video

Professor Regina Herzliner: Innovating

21 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products

Director and Career Coach Katja Frey – Recruiting Relations Manager Get to know Lauren and Katja, the Career & Professional View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

A Good Place to Start Driving Digital StrategySunil Gupta explores how traditional businesses can make the leap into the digital age. American Capitalism: New HistoriesHistorians are taking a new look at capitalism in light of its adoption in most of the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 22, 2022
Article

The Great Resignation or the Great Rethink?

By: Ranjay Gulati

Unsettled by the pandemic, most people are considering our jobs with fresh perspective. Some are quitting, in what has been dubbed the Great Resignation. But, for many, it’s more of a Great Rethink. Do we really like our employers’ culture? Do we feel that we’re fairly... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Personal Development and Career

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28 Nov 2022
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College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

attendees are given the ability to participate in a case method session with HBS faculty, a leadership discussion, a career and professional development event, View Details