Mentoring

A great mentor guides, coaches, and ultimately, sets people up for success. A great sponsor makes sure success translates into the visibility needed to...

Takeaways from a leading NBA player’s long career in basketball

Working–and living–inauthentically can cause stress, mental illness, or worse.

Junior talent — especially those from underrepresented backgrounds — often face challenges making these connections. Here are three strategies that can help.

Ten questions to help you help them — without micromanaging.

Part of your responsibility is being willing to put your credibility on the line to back them up.

Six ways to invest in the person who’s investing in your career.

When we're feeling drained, mentoring is one of the tasks that tends to fall by the wayside. But mentors don't have to burn themselves out to be helpful...

They leverage a vibrant mix of connection and action to advance high performers into leadership.

Mentorship isn’t enough. To develop productive career relationships, you’ve got to be authentic.

Managers often fail to recognize the problem until it’s too late.

Career paths are hard to navigate alone these days.

The NFL wide receiver on becoming the best he could be

When given a choice, the employees who most need help are likely to opt out.

How can you help members of your team achieve their development goals? Coach them as they navigate across their career "rock wall."

Here’s how to spot the signs before you become exhausted.

The ballerina on recognizing and realizing her potential, breaking ground as the first Black principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, and mentoring...

Three strategies for managers.

A paycheck alone won’t jumpstart a career.

Beware of performative allyship.

EnactusOC is a student-led group that had attracted and retained students successfully for over 15 years. In the late spring of 2020, amid the global...

Find the right person to help supercharge your career. Whether you're eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking...

When it comes to mentoring, women face more barriers than men. Here's how men can help change that. Increasingly, new employees and junior members of...

This exercise will introduce the concept of developmental networks and overview relational strategies for advancing careers. During the session, participants...

UltraTech Cement Limited was a global leading producer of cement that had implemented best-in-class safety practices at all of its units. Despite this,...

Even as a teenager, Nadine Vogel knew she wanted to be an executive with a FORTUNE 500 company. This case chronicles her journey and her life and career...

An effective and highly motivated executive at 3DP Incorporated, a company that specialized in manufacturing objects with three-dimensional printing,...

First-year Columbia Business School student Kristen Peters hoped her summer internship with Taylor Reed (TR) would lead to a job offer in private wealth...

Don't wait for someone else to manage your career. Career paths are far from straightforward. "HBR Guides to Managing Your Career Collection" offers the...

This exercise will introduce the concept of developmental networks and overview relational strategies for advancing careers. During the session, participants...

For most of her career, Lucinda Stewart was a woman working in contexts-investment banking private equity, venture capital-largely dominated by men. Nonetheless,...

Supplement to case W21081. Mathilde Johnsen was a highly motivated environmental systems engineer in the real property branch of Public Services and...

Relationships built on trust matter. Deep and meaningful connections, especially with other women, are critical to our careers and to our overall well-being...

This digital collection, curated by Harvard Business Review, offers seminal ideas by leadership expert and Harvard Business School professor Linda A....

Supplement for case W20737

The key to advancing gender equality? Men. Women are at a disadvantage. At home, they often face an unequal division of household chores and childcare,...

Describes the actions taken by the owner/president to resolve the dilemma.

Managers and leaders are two very different types of people. Managers' goals arise out of necessities rather than desires; they excel at defusing conflicts...

Establish ground rules from the start.

It doesn’t have to feel draining.

EnactusOC is a student-led group that had attracted and retained students successfully for over 15 years. In the late spring of 2020, amid the global...

Three ways to connect with powerful people - remotely.

A good relationship depends on both people.

Teaching Note for Case NA0758

Mentorship from other experienced individuals has become essential to entrepreneurs and their fledgling ventures, particularly in today's accelerators....

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Before the days of the Internet, it was primarily venture capitalists who coached young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Today, because of the phenomenal...