career advancement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

For several decades, the career path of Alfred L. Cheauré (MBA '71) was fairly straightforward. A first-generation immigrant American from Germany, Cheauré grew up in New Jersey and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his 27-year... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

addition, he has held important administrative positions at the School, chairing Exec Ed's Advanced Management Program and its International Senior Managers' Program, as well as the MBA Program's Production and Operations Management unit... View Details

05 Jun 2017
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Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

new skills that boards should be developing for issues such as digital or cyber security,” she says. “And now I have a clear and personal action plan for moving forward, including what career choices I should make in the coming years to... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

23 Apr 2018
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Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

hooked.” Scholarship with Relevance Condo says he “bumped into” the idea of a pursuing career in academia in the early 1990s, while earning his master’s at INCAE, Latin America’s renowned business school. INCEA uses case-method teaching... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2018
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From Das’s Desk

address critical needs arising at certain inflection points for alumni along their career or life paths. Together, we can develop programs and learning opportunities that create value for you, when you need it. Together, we can develop... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

25 Apr 2018
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success

and the resultant lack of minority role models, is what prompted Rice to develop MLT while still a student at HBS. He realized just how close he had come to missing the opportunity for a career in business, because, despite coming from a... View Details

18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

together,” she remembers. That interest led her to study finance and accounting at the University of Pennsylvania. After college, she joined Morgan Stanley as an analyst. “I found investment banking to be exciting and fast-paced,” says Lien. She decided to get an MBA... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

professorship is both a tribute to Fitzhugh's career and a means for HBS to build upon his efforts by attracting and retaining faculty whose research focuses on issues of diversity. "Naylor Fitzhugh was a pioneer in his professional... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2013
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Case Study: A Place at the Table

inclusive culture? And how should HBS change over the next 10 years to accelerate the advancement of women leaders who make a difference in the world?" The authors conducted some 60 interviews for the case, resulting in stories that run... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 May 2017
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Going the Distance

where he worked 13 years for Cisco Systems during its meteoric rise. His passion for engaging with customers led him to run a global support organization for Cisco’s biggest customers. While at Cisco, the company sent him to HBS’s View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

trusted brand in business. Building a Winning Career: A complete guide to securing and thriving in your ideal senior role By William Cowan (MBA 1972) Stradis Pty LTD Do you know how to seek out and win your next executive role? Are you prepared to take the next steps... View Details

19 Jul 2013
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All in Good Time

focused on creating social equity and economic self-sufficiency, Silbert has a simple take on what ties her career together: "I'm a problem solver. I love digging into an issue and the analytical rigor of doing a scan of existing research... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

forgotten figures to light, and how her finance career prepared her for assembling an art exhibition. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Denise, can you just tell me about the process by which you began thinking about a View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Karmic Kickstart

up an advanced and highly aggressive cancer. Even with a hideous year of surgeries and chemotherapy, the best I could hope for was a 50 percent chance of surviving the next five years. I was forced into an abrupt fire sale of the business... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

24 Feb 2011
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Show Time

in 2010 when, at peace and surrounded by her family, she took her own life under Oregon’s assisted-suicide law. Curtis, who had a modeling career before attending HBS, worked for many years as an administrator and lecturer at Oregon... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up

create given their love of the outdoor life. Still, it was a strange alliance between a scruffy, eccentric outdoorsman and two clean-cut East Coast, Ivy League Republicans on the fast-track for careers in finance or politics. After... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

24 May 2017
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John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963

2006 Named Chair, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada 2013 Appointed Officer of the Order of Canada 2016 Receives Harvard Medal Dean Emeritus, Harvard Business School John McArthur’s informal manner charms, disarms, and deflects—and very often, quietly View Details