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- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
part of the 25 employees of MBA Career and Professional Development. “It’s an all-hands-on-deck situation,” says Director of Employer Relations Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA ’03). Logistics and prepping aside, the week represents a prime... View Details
- 24 Jun 2016
- News
Reinventing Pharma
2004) began her career as a research scientist. Eventually expanding her responsibilities into business development led her to HBS, where she hoped to solidify her understanding of the intersection of science and business. Following... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
students sold their souls for employment to the tune of familiar songs such as “Be Our Guest” (“Be Depressed”), sung by students upon learning their fate from Career Services, and “Soul Man” (“Soul Plan”), as the devil hatched a View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
gave up. What are your post-HBS plans? I plan to stay in this sector my entire life. I’d like to use Catalyst Alliance as a means to attract more MBAs into social nterprise — I want to contribute to making it as appealing as the private... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
myself in a difficult situation,” says Powers. Such internships enable MBA students to gain valuable work experience, explore career options, and apply their classroom learnings. As the economic consequences of the pandemic took hold,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
for the NHL. The league will benefit from a surge of interest and support similar to what American hockey experienced after Team USA's hockey gold medal in 1980." Kluzak, who plans a career in investment... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
citizen, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, attended Wharton during his service, and then studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Although he had planned on a career in teaching, a job offer from... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
Photos by Bridget Corke “Pleased, but not satisfied.” That’s how Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) describes the drive that helped him to overcome homelessness as a young man in South Africa, get an education, and build a successful career... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler (HBS Press) Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
to reach a nurse who has paged him. Then, apologizing for his fatigue after thirty sleepless hours, he settles into a chair in a quiet corner to reflect for a few moments on his decision to enter medical school at the age of 45 after a fulfilling View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Striking a Balance
Alvin J. Silk The struggle to balance career and family was all too familiar to the late Diane Doerge Wilson, whose memory is being honored with an HBS professorship funded by a gift from her husband, Alvin J. Silk. A senior consultant at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
navigating boy’s clubs and being the only person of color in the room. “So I appreciated the warnings about the industry but that’s been my whole life,” she says. While Bond, who is 45 years old, saw being a business executive like her father as a potential View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
unhappy? He then challenges his students to consider what they have learned at HBS that will help guide their own choices about career and family. In 2010, at the request of one of his students, Christensen shared his thoughts about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
McCance First to Serve as Entrepreneur in Residence
first three years of the HBS Business Plan Contest, serving from 1997 to 1999. “HBS has had a tremendously positive effect on my career and my life,” he says. “The Entrepreneur in Residence Program was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
place was capable. With every job I took, I figured out who could take over for me before I even started. Succession planning was an absolute.” Swan left Nickelodeon three years after giving birth; now the mother of two daughters, she is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Clubs: Capital Improvements
When he began planning the event, HBS Club of Washington, DC, president Antonio Alves (PLDA 15, 2013) envisioned the club’s first annual Leadership Gala as a modest outing that would boost awareness of the club in the Greater DC area. By... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
Stone Herman, and I'm class of 1997. My professor, Carl Sloan, who was our lead professor, gave the advice that you will probably achieve greater monetary and overall career success than you initially thought possible, but you'll have to... View Details
- 20 Jun 2008
- News
Risk and Reward
sure what went wrong with Big Brown. But his owners say they plan to race him through the end of the year. When Big Brown is retired, he will stand at stud at Robert Clay’s (OPM 4, 1980) Three Chimneys farm www.threechimneys.com in... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Limestone Coast of South Australia, where he had just been hired as CEO of the Wattle Range Council, a position similar to that of a city manager in the United States. “I felt like it was the first time in my life that I had made a View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
idea (no business plan necessary) in thirty seconds, with the two best ideas getting a second, longer hearing of two minutes. The winning concept was an online site that encourages teachers to share lesson View Details