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- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Access real-world employment data from HBS alumni with the Career Trends tool
Negotiating a job offer in a new industry or function? Wondering if a change in location might impact your base salary? Joining a startup and wanting to benchmark your equity offer? Use the Career Trends...
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- 18 May 2021
- News
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
- 10 Feb 2016
- HBS Seminar
Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia SIPA
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
do the job well, and people will offer you more responsibility. Commitment. Demonstrate that you are excited about your job, and people will invest in you. Compatibility. Prove that you can get along with...
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- 17 Feb 2016
- Video
An MBA student helps young people figure out their 'why'
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
Harvard Business School researchers are offering unique insights into our workplaces and careers. In this world, taking a pay cut can help a career, promotions aren't always good things, and networking may send you to the nearest tub for...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- Career Coach
Courtney Fairbrother
Courtney (Washington and Lee ’11) is the Associate Director for HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative as well as the Sustainability Sector Lead for the Career and Professional Development office. In these roles, she manages student and alumni engagement and creates...
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- 27 Jan 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Faculty on the New Apple Tablet
- Article
Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building customer profiles and looking for correlations in data. To create...
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Customer Relationship Management
Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan. "Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 9 (September 2016): 54–62.
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
leave vacant positions unfilled for immediate, measurable savings. That's the retail way. Moreover, the costs of understaffing aren't easily quantifiable; who can say how many customers are lost to long lines or stock-outs? “You can invest in your people and View Details
- 01 May 2017
- News
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
- August 2011
- Case
Martha Rinaldi: Should She Stay or Should She Go?
By: Linda A. Hill and Mark Renella
Martha Rinaldi has been an assistant product manager at leading beverage company Potomac Waters since graduating from business school. Rinaldi is frustrated by her relationships with her boss and a close co-worker. Even though she works hard to please her manager, she...
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Interpersonal Relations;
Management Styles;
Managing Up;
Career Planning;
Conflict;
Management Style;
Interpersonal Communication;
Personal Development and Career;
Organizational Culture;
Relationships;
Performance Evaluation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Power and Influence;
Food and Beverage Industry
Hill, Linda A., and Mark Renella. "Martha Rinaldi: Should She Stay or Should She Go?" Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-310, August 2011.
- December 21, 2021
- Article
How to Become a Better Listener
By: Robin Abrahams and Boris Groysberg
Listening is a skill that’s vitally important, sadly undertaught, and physically and mentally taxing. In the aftermath of COVID-19, particularly with the shift to remote work and the red-hot job market, it’s never been more important—or more difficult—for leaders to be...
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Listening;
Nonverbal Communication;
Communication;
Competency and Skills;
Performance Improvement
Abrahams, Robin, and Boris Groysberg. "How to Become a Better Listener." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 21, 2021).
- 27 Jan 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Faculty on the New Apple Tablet
- April 2000 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
TixToGo: Financing a Silicon Valley Start-up
Describes TixToGo, a Silicon Valley start-up company that offers online solutions to individuals and organizations that want to offer activities and/or collect registration fees for events over the Internet. A serial entrepreneur and his partner started the company in...
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Business Model;
Information Technology;
Financing and Loans;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry;
San Francisco
Kuemmerle, Walter, and William J. Coughlin Jr. "TixToGo: Financing a Silicon Valley Start-up." Harvard Business School Case 800-376, April 2000. (Revised April 2004.)
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
of university around the same time held jobs that have the same seniority level that also belonged to the same industry as the entrepreneurs before they started their VC-backed companies. Leapfrogging on the corporate ladder The results...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading
applying for job opportunities, particularly more advanced, higher-paying positions, because they’re concerned they aren’t qualified enough, whereas men don’t seem to worry about their skills matching the specific View Details
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by Kara Baskin
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
deflate,” Miller recalled in a recent Harvard Business School case. The partner had a job offer in his pocket that he had planned to hand Miller, but the prison time changed everything. View VideoVideo:...
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- 2015
- Report
The Global STEM Paradox
By: Mark R. Kramer, Kate Tallant, Amanda Oudin Goldberger and Flynn Lebus
Despite increasing numbers of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduates worldwide, STEM jobs remain unfilled in developed and developing countries. Through an exploration of the root causes of this global STEM paradox, FSG offers an answer to this...
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STEM Labor;
Science;
Information Technology;
Engineering;
Jobs and Positions;
Global Range
Kramer, Mark R., Kate Tallant, Amanda Oudin Goldberger, and Flynn Lebus. "The Global STEM Paradox." Report, FSG, 2015.
- 1997
- Book
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
By: Clayton M. Christensen
His work is cited by the world's best known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic bestseller, innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right—yet still lose market... View Details
Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997.