career planning - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

tenure on the board and a prior career in investment banking/investment management are associated with proposing standards perceived as decreasing accounting "reliability"; while contributions to the Democratic Party are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

work. Alfred Chandler: The road that led me to write Inventing the Electronic Century had a bit of a twist and turn. I originally planned a single study in comparative institutional history called "Paths of Learning: The Evolution of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

07 May 2018
News

What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

a lot of doors. - Peter Tufano "Most of us spend the lion's share of our careers teaching thousands of people the way to earn millions of dollars," observes Peter Tufano, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

and CEO of a multi-billion dollar division of Otsuka, a Japan-based pharmaceutical company. His ascension to this leadership position followed a thriving career in academic medicine as a professor. After a decade in the academy, he began... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Commodity Trading Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen StorliHarvard Business School Case 813-020 Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

the final stages of a 10-year plan of rejuvenation under CEO Kim Lopdrup. When he took over as CEO in 2004 the chain was closing restaurants and suffering declining same-store sales and declining customer satisfaction. But in 2010, even... View Details

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

an inability to ignore the sunk costs associated with the stocks' past underperformance or a conscious desire to protect their careers by not admitting prior mistakes. Furthermore, we present evidence that selling off loser stocks helps... View Details

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