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      Personal Development & Career: Articles, Research, & Case Studies on Personal Development & Career – HBS Working Knowledge
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      • January 2021
      • Case

      Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic

      By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
      This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Pandemics; Job Cuts And Outsourcing; Leadership; Leadership development; Leadership Style; Business Or Company Management; Crisis Management; Management Succession; Management Teams; personal development And career; Strategic Planning; Problems And Challenges; Safety; Retail Industry
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      George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 321-073, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Teaching Note

      Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO

      By: Tsedal Neeley
      Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 420-071 and 420-073.  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Race; Gender; Leadership Style; Risk And Uncertainty; Change; Prejudice And Bias; Decision Making; personal development And career; Technology Industry; California
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      Neeley, Tsedal. "Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 421-058, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Article

      Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      In the aggregate, hiring in sales is more expensive than many companies’ cap-ex decisions. But it rarely gets the same attention and companies fail to deal with challenges inherent in sales hiring. Unlike many other business functions, there is no easily identified...  View Details
      Keywords: Salesforce Management; Selection And Staffing; Human Resources
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      Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Hiring Is Hard to Do (Don't Make It Harder)." Top Sales Magazine (January 2021), 38–39.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      Biobot Analytics

      By: Raymond Kluender, Joshua Krieger and Mitchell Weiss
      In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; City; Data And Data Sets; personal development And career; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; Kuwait; Korean Peninsula
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      Kluender, Raymond, Joshua Krieger, and Mitchell Weiss. "Biobot Analytics." Harvard Business School Case 821-045, January 2021.
      • October 2020
      • Case

      Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

      By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
      In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time—the highs and lows,...  View Details
      Keywords: Mental Health; Talent And Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; personal development And career; Family And Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London
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      Groysberg, Boris, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Michael Norris. "Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'." Harvard Business School Case 421-044, October 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Wladimir Klitschko: F.A.C.E. Your Challenges

      By: Boris Groysberg, Michael Norris and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      In 2020, Olympic goal medal winning boxer and former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko had built himself a “second ring” to continue his career after retiring from professional boxing. He was a hotelier, boxing promoter, author, teacher, speaker, and had...  View Details
      Keywords: Experience And Expertise; Business Education; Training; Entrepreneurship; personal development And career; Sports; Sports Industry; Consulting Industry; Education Industry; Ukraine; Germany
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      Groysberg, Boris, Michael Norris, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Wladimir Klitschko: F.A.C.E. Your Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 421-032, September 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Jan Swartz: Steering Princess Cruises Through the COVID-19 Crisis

      By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Norris
      In the summer of 2020, Jan Swartz, President of Princess Cruises, was persevering to lead her company back from the depths of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Diamond Princess, one of Princess Cruises’ 18 ships was the site of one of the earliest large outbreaks of COVID-19...  View Details
      Keywords: Leading Change; Crisis Management; Ship Transportation; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Business Strategy; Gender; personal development And career; Entertainment And Recreation Industry; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Japan; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Norris. "Jan Swartz: Steering Princess Cruises Through the COVID-19 Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 421-036, September 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Article

      Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists

      By: Kyle Myers, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Marie Thursby, Jerry Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani and Dashun Wang
      COVID-19 has not affected all scientists equally. A survey of principal investigators indicates that female scientists, those in the ‘bench sciences’ and, especially, scientists with young children experienced a substantial decline in time devoted to research. This...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Scientists; Health Pandemics; Gender; personal development And career
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      Myers, Kyle, Wei Yang Tham, Yian Yin, Nina Cohodes, Marie Thursby, Jerry Thursby, Peter Schiffer, Joseph Walsh, Karim R. Lakhani, and Dashun Wang. "Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Scientists." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 9 (September 2020): 880–883.
      • August 2020
      • Case

      Gerald Chertavian

      By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
      Gerald Chertavian (HBS 1992) finds himself at a personal crossroads. It is 1999--the height of the dot com-bubble--and Chertavian and his business partners have just sold their Internet-based business for $83 million. His share of the sale’s proceeds means that he has...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Enterprise; personal development And career; Decision Choices And Conditions
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      Perlow, Leslie, and Matthew Preble. "Gerald Chertavian." Harvard Business School Case 421-030, August 2020.
      • August 2020
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      Sangu Delle

      By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
      By 2020, Sangu Delle (MBA 2016) has already made significant progress towards his life-long goal of solving Africa’s myriad and diverse challenges. At 33 years old, he is the founder and chairman of the for-profit Golden Palm Investments Corporation, CEO of Africa...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact; Impact Investing; Mental Health; Social Capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Health Care And Treatment; personal development And career; Health Industry; Africa
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      Perlow, Leslie, and Matthew Preble. "Sangu Delle." Harvard Business School Case 421-031, August 2020.
      • August 2020
      • Case

      Sheena Gupta (A)

      By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
      Sheena Gupta (A) is a first-person narrative of a Harvard Business School alumna (class of 2008) who has thoughtfully and purposefully crafted the various components of her life in a way that aligns with her personal values and needs. Gupta shares her life story, and...  View Details
      Keywords: personal development And career; Values And Beliefs; Work-life Balance
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      Perlow, Leslie, and Matthew Preble. "Sheena Gupta (A)." Harvard Business School Case 421-028, August 2020.
      • August 2020
      • Case

      Sheena Gupta (B)

      By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
      Sheena Gupta (B) provides a brief update to how Gupta is thinking about crafting her life in context of the COVID-19 global pandemic.  View Details
      Keywords: personal development And career; Values And Beliefs; Work-life Balance; Health Pandemics; Singapore
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      Perlow, Leslie, and Matthew Preble. "Sheena Gupta (B)." Harvard Business School Case 421-029, August 2020.
      • August 2020
      • Supplement

      Mary Guerrero and the Advancement of Latinx Talent: Developing an Employee Resource Group at a Top Tier Bank (B)

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Amy Hernandez Turcios
      Mary Guerrero decided to pursue the challenging road and kicked off Hispanic/Latinx Advancement and Career Engagement (HACE) at her Bulge Bracket Bank (BBB). For Mary, her larger purpose was to advance Latinx talent in the U.S. because she believed it was important for...  View Details
      Keywords: Latin America; career; Engagement; Bank; Inclusion; Scale; Latinx; Talent And Talent Management; Diversity; Ethnicity; Leadership; personal development And career; Leadership development; Banks And Banking
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Amy Hernandez Turcios. "Mary Guerrero and the Advancement of Latinx Talent: Developing an Employee Resource Group at a Top Tier Bank (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 321-018, August 2020.
      • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Rosalind Fox at John Deere

      By: Anthony Mayo and Olivia Hull
      Rosalind Fox, the factory manager at John Deere’s Des Moines, Iowa plant, has improved the financial standing of the factory in the three years she’s been at its helm. But employee engagement scores—which measured employees’ satisfaction with working conditions and...  View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Change Management; Experience And Expertise; Talent And Talent Management; Diversity; Gender; Race; Engineering; Geographic Location; Globalized Markets And Industries; Leadership development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Style; Management Teams; Organizational Culture; personal development And career; Prejudice And Bias; Power And Influence; Status And Position; Trust; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; United States
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      Mayo, Anthony, and Olivia Hull. "Rosalind Fox at John Deere." Harvard Business School Case 421-011, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • July 2020 (Revised October 2020)
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      Valentina Tereshkova: Conquering Space

      By: Boris Groysberg and Annelena Lobb
      On June 13, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman to fly in space on Vostok 6. Soviet leaders publicly espoused gender equity, but also sent Tereshkova on her mission in order to be the first country to send a woman to space, a milestone they...  View Details
      Keywords: Gender Equity; Gender; Equality And Inequality; personal development And career; Aerospace Industry; Soviet Union; United States
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      Groysberg, Boris, and Annelena Lobb. "Valentina Tereshkova: Conquering Space." Harvard Business School Case 421-005, July 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • July–August 2020
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      Make the Most of Your Relocation

      By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
      Although the COVID-19 crisis has halted travel in recent months, geographic mobility has become critical for managers and knowledge workers hoping to advance in today’s globalized economy, and that trend is unlikely to reverse. Geographic mobility can pay off...  View Details
      Keywords: Relocation; Mobility; personal development And career; Geographic Location; Work-life Balance
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      Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Make the Most of Your Relocation." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 4 (July–August 2020): 104–113.
      • June 2020
      • Case

      Jill Draeger

      By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
      The Jill Draeger case is designed as an introduction to a general course on entrepreneurship. It is appropriate for many levels of students. It attempts to portray the archetype of opportunity-focused, resource-constrained behavior that is the hallmark of...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; personal development And career; Opportunities; Negotiation; Agreements And Arrangements; Risk Management
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      Stevenson, Howard H., and Michael J. Roberts. "Jill Draeger." Harvard Business School Brief Case 920-578, June 2020.
      • June 2020
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      Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)

      By: Laura Huang, Elizabeth Jiang and Brandon Yu
      Career Karma is a startup focused on helping individuals looking to transition careers into computer engineering roles or similar fields by preparing them for formal technical training programs, or “coding bootcamps,” that would lead to a successful career pivot upon...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth And Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Education; Training; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Management; Goals And Objectives; Growth And development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Organizations; Mission And Purpose; personal development And career; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; Education Industry; Employment Industry
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      Huang, Laura, Elizabeth Jiang, and Brandon Yu. "Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-121, June 2020.
      • June 2020
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      Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (B)

      By: Laura Huang and Elizabeth Jiang
      This (B) case expands upon the journey of Career Karma’s three founders by presenting a fictionalized Investor Meeting scenario.  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth And Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Education; Training; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Management; Goals And Objectives; Growth And development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Organizations; Mission And Purpose; personal development And career; Technology Industry; Education Industry; Employment Industry
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      Huang, Laura, and Elizabeth Jiang. "Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-125, June 2020.
      • 2020
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      The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege

      By: Josephine Tan and Jon M. Jachimowicz
      For many graduating college students entering the workforce, “pursue your passion” is not only a frequently repeated graduation mantra but also a commonly embraced ideal. In line with this view, prior academic research finds that passion connotes work-related benefits,...  View Details
      Keywords: Passion; Careers; Socioeconomic Status; Discrimination; Emotions; personal development And career; Status And Position; Prejudice And Bias
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      Tan, Josephine, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-136, June 2020.
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