Early Career Experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2001
News

Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal

former president of the club early last fall, Dolan was invited to take on the role. “I gladly accepted,” he recalls, “and was eager to rekindle my ties with HBS.” Dolan, a native of Maryland, studied at the School from 1976-77 but took a... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Online Management Course | HBS Online

Management in Business (CLIMB) CLIMB enables new and experienced leaders to ignite their careers with a combination of vital and forward-looking business skills, self-reflection, and an immersive cohort-based learning View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

last June, he has been a prime example of the positive results of that litmus test. Daniel first heard of McKinsey & Company at a career panel he attended during his senior year at Wesleyan University, where he majored in mathematics. But... View Details

January – February 2011
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Stop Holding Yourself Back

By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei

After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics

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01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

a microphone, and an extensive record collection with money earned working for their father. Ferguson moonlighted as a DJ in college on the weekends to earn extra money but never considered a career in the music business. Instead, he... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

responsibilities – like being a good son or having a financially stable career for instance – deserved the sunlight. For 26 years, this meant putting a lock on my self-expression. I only applied to colleges on the East Coast far from... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

here will make the MBA experience very different from many of the students, but as long as your priorities are clear you can make it work and you will likely find more people around to help than you imagine. HBS mama memory? I started... View Details

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

“I think the digital nomads are probably more likely to be Millennials, early career workers who want to travel the world and work, or empty nesters,” Choudhury says. Several countries, including Croatia,... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

that researchers can potentially invoke to supplement other resources available to them. We propose a framework of antecedents for the use of professional social networks by academics. The framework captures researchers’ relevant personal and professional View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

provided more substantial coverage than what I previously had from school versus on the job. Emily Stebbins External Vendor Data Relationship Manager, Index & Data Solutions at BlackRock Jumpstart your career by gaining the skills and... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

spending two years at HBS and making lifelong friends, Whitney’s early career at Bain Capital, and the investment business he helped found and build, Gauge Capital. As a young family, we were thrilled to... View Details

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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives

types of companies might be adjacent to that and would benefit from your expertise. Identify the kind of company you want to work with—large, small, public, privately held, early stage, mature, and so on. Think about what matters most to... View Details

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

Careers Balancing Work & Life Careers Balancing Work & Life Achieving the right work-life balance is important, and sometimes it takes practice to achieve what works best for you. Striking the balance... View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

jerks, nor does this behavior reflect their authentic selves. Rather, these individuals likely had very negative experiences early in their lives that cause them to have difficulty in managing their anger,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

significantly reduces dishonesty. When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance Authors:L.P. Tost, F. Gino, and R. Larrick Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the impact of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

profiles. They then write their own profiles, imagining their lives from the perspective of 10 years after graduation. “There is so much energy—but also angst—around those cases, I started to think about whether I should develop a course aimed at helping students... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

14 Sep 2018
Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

and data science. We even have a political-science-major-turned-software-engineer who learned to code at Dev Bootcamp. 2. There’s a wide range of industry experience I also expected everyone to come from a big tech company. While there’s... View Details

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

consumer believes." Along with Michael Norton, professor of marketing, Avery explores those extremes in a recent HBS teaching note, Learning from Extreme Consumers. The researchers developed the concept as part of the Field Immersion View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

take advantage of someone in an anxious state," says Brooks. "Although participants who weren't anxious could see through it, the anxious people could not." All of these experiments point to the importance of recognizing... View Details