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Alumni Career Guide - Alumni

Volunteer Alumni Career Guide What are Alumni Career Guides? These are alumni who are willing to connect with current students to share industry knowledge and career advice.... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

MBA Career Office Wins Award

The MBA Career & Professional Develop-ment office has received the 2009 IBM Excellence in Career Services Award. The award “recognizes academic career centers that provide... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Management

27 May 2025
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Alumni Career Video | Elenor Mak (MBA 2007)

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10 Feb 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development

Christensen discusses economic theory and personal happiness. WORKING PAPERS Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L. Milkman study processes of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

03 Jun 2025
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Alumni Career Video | Lindsay Muller (MBA 2024)

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28 Oct 2022
News

HBS Announces New RISE Career Fellow Program

April 1998 (Revised June 1998)
Teaching Note

Self-Assessment and Career Development, Instructor's Course Overview (TN)

By: David A. Thomas and Emily Heaphy

An overview for the Self-Assessment and Career Development course. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career

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April 1989 (Revised October 2005)
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James Burke: A Career in American Business (A)

By: Richard S. Tedlow and Wendy Smith

Presents an historical overview of the professional career of James E. Burke, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson. Examines the corporation's handling of three major occurrences--the Tylenol poisonings in 1982 and 1986 and the acquisition and subsequent sale of... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Marketing Strategy; Ethics; Personal Development and Career; Crisis Management; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; United States

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15 Apr 2025
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HBS Career Journeys | Jonathan Lee (MBA 2024)

Jonathan Lee (MBA 2024) shares how he leveraged career coaching to transition from the Army to private aviation infrastructure, using insights on negotiation to navigate his next steps. View Details

13 Nov 2024
Video

Retiring Well: Considerations at Every Career Stage

05 Apr 2018
News

Refreshing Your Career to Gain New Opportunities

04 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19

Kristen Fitzpatrick (HBS '03) is the Managing Director of HBS Career and Professional Development (CPD). In this role, she also coaches alumni and MBA students. Through her interactions with recruiters over the past decade, Kristen is... View Details

28 Jun 2022

International Perspective Series: Career Opportunities

Meet a Career Coach from the MBA Career & Professional Development Office at HBS to learn about the extensive global network and how to navigate the job search whether you wish to remain in the US after... View Details

December 2001
Case

Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (B)

By: Myra M. Hart, Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Harden and Susan Saltrick

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Business Startups

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March 2004 (Revised May 2004)
Case

Jack Smith (A): Career Launch at Toyota

Jack Smith had a stellar career at Chrysler managing major design teams and manufacturing plants before deciding to join industry leader and benchmark Toyota. It is his first day on the job; what will his orientation entail? Cursory walkthroughs and introductions... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry

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04 Jun 2015
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Why Career Switchers Make a Great Hire

Why hire a career switching MBA? They deliver results, and will excel on your team. Hiring a "Career Switcher" infuses new energy into the group. Many MBA students come to HBS to make such a switch, and to follow their passion.... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

COVID-19 is claiming an unexpected career toll among scientific researchers, and particularly on women, new research shows. If you are female, have young children, or work in a lab, you are more likely to feel the career-crunching effects... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

22 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Video Blog: My Experience with Career Services at HBS

View Video TRANSCRIPT Xonana Scrubb: So my first touchpoint with career services was right in the beginning of the school year. I came into school with an exploding job offer. Not something I particularly recommend, but it was a great... View Details

April 2007
Case

Leadership Forum: Building Great Careers - Video

By: D. Quinn Mills and Carole Winkler

Leadership: Can I learn it, how do I do it, and how can I use it to advance my career? How is today's world different from the one our teachers entered years ago, and how does that affect me? The two videos on this DVD address these and other questions typically asked... View Details