Early Career Experiences - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2025
Blog Post

How to Work with Search Firms

Executive search firms can be powerful allies in a senior-level job search. While they can play a vital role in helping you find your next role, it’s important to understand how they operate and how best to work with them. Want to talk to an HBS View Details

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Americans don't know how lucky they are." Q: You explore in detail his early years growing up a Hungarian Jew who was threatened not only by the Nazis but also by the Soviet invasion of his country. What do you think this upbringing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

me, ‘Success has many mothers.’ ” Working in the ministry and understanding the bureaucratic hurdles facing entrepreneurs primed Enan for a career in venture capital. So did her experience at the EAEF, which... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

20 Mar 2024

The Value of an MBA in Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital

Whether you're currently immersed in the technology, entrepreneurship, or venture capital landscape, or you harbor aspirations for a future in these dynamic sectors, we invite you to join a panel of HBS students and alumni who share your View Details

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

and Ananth Raman Abstract—To set inventory service levels, suppliers must understand how changes in inventory service level affect demand. We build on prior research, which uses analytical models and laboratory experiments to study the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Harvard Business School

committees. He has also functioned as the principal financial planner and CFO of numerous businesses seeking to expand their ventures. His early career included corporate positions with General Foods, Kraft,... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

motivate and encourage its students to join the fight by bringing more of these challenges to the forefront in the classroom and making careers in these spaces more accessible and practical. As students, the greatest opportunity for us is... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class. 2023 Vincent Pons : Winner of the 2023 Best Young Economist Award from Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes. Sophus A. Reinert : Received the 2023... View Details

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

apart old electronics to learn what makes them tick. Green technologies - solar, batteries, motors - captured his imagination early on. “I’d spend weekends and summers sifting through old toys and electronics in the house to find the... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Leading at State

a special limited partner at Greylock, began his career working in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara (MBA 1939) in the 1960s. That experience left him with a deep appreciation for... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

down, his intelligence dims and his memory becomes less quick, so that he risks committing many errors in his business.” “In a sense, these are very early concepts of corporate social responsibility,” says Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

product development terms, you might call this something like "jumping to the next S-curve." By the "S-curve" we mean the pattern that new innovations typically follow when they are introduced. At first a few people, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

Profile

Brandon Tieu

revamp others. Your days consist of learning from top CEOs, a vibrant community of 900+ classmates, and renowned professors. What is your most memorable classroom moment? One of my most memorable classroom moments came early in the year... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

small number of rivals—for market power. (Indeed, at the Harvard Business School where I have taught business history to thousands of MBAs, students often compare the early growth of Standard Oil to that of Microsoft 100 years later. They... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

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Life & Leadership After HBS - Race, Gender & Equity

and women, particularly those parenting young children. Drawing on the most recent Life & Leadership data, this report examines how alumni in dual-career families navigate the intersection of career and family, including differences in... View Details

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, where pioneer entrants spend 34% (7.2 months) longer than follow-on... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

responsibility efforts, including investing in solar energy and environmentally friendly farming with his sights set on reducing the company's carbon footprint. "The more we leaned into development in the community, the better we performed. I started to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, their experiences permit an inside look at pushing past barriers. “I had studied Miami’s evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem for an earlier set of cases. But I saw... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of 2000–2002 and 2007–2009. This paper specifies... View Details