Insights & Advice
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
Phillip Andrews
The MS/MBA curriculum builds upon students’ existing technical skills and, through the MBA Program’s first-year required curriculum, adds knowledge in nearly every essential aspect of business, including finance, leadership, marketing, and operations. As a result, students are equipped to add significant value in their summer internship, even as a career switcher. [...]
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) partnered with Flatiron School to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project experience. We connected with some of the bootcamp participants to hear more about their summer experience. [...]
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
Boris Groysberg & Robin Abrahams
- 28 Oct 2020
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Humans are motivated by four drives: acquire, bond, comprehend, and defend. Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams discuss how managers can use all four to keep employees engaged. [...]
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
Becca Carnahan
Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019) and Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021) discuss how they, along with Carter Lewis (MBA 2023) and their Anti-Racism Fund co-founders, transformed a GoFundMe project into a nonprofit organization dedicated to making long-term change. [...]
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2020
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Ashley Whillans and colleagues offer managers solutions to ease the stress many employees are experiencing in the new workplace. [...]
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