coaching - Publications - Faculty & Research

2010
Working Paper

Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly competitive contexts are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management. Management positions... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Effectiveness; Sports Industry; United States

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25 Apr 2014
Video

Stever Robbins - Making A Difference

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 16 Nov 2021
Career Events

Making a career transition? Connect with HBS

Are you thinking about making a career move? Or, do you want to work with a coach on some aspect of your leadership? Maybe you want to step back and reflect on your purpose, power up your LinkedIn profile, or practice for an upcoming interview. If these aspects of... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 07 Mar 2022
Virtual Programming

Considering a Career Transition? Connect with HBS

Are you thinking about making a career move? Or, do you want to work with a coach on some aspect of your leadership? Maybe you want to step back and reflect on your purpose, power up your LinkedIn profile, or practice for an upcoming interview. If these aspects of... View Details

11 Nov 2015
Book

Alex Ferguson's Lessons on Leading

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

Career Coach

Betsy Edwards

Betsy (HGSE, '12) is a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development with over ten years of coaching experience. Her focus is on supporting students and alumni seeking an impact-oriented career primarily in... View Details

Keywords: Education; Fintech; Financial Services (All); Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Government; Health Care; Social Enterprise

TeachingInterests

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal (LCOR); HBS Executive Education; 2022

Coached executives on innovation and organizational change
Led a group of senior executives in applying course theories to develop solutions for their organizational change initiatives
Teaching Rating: 7 / 7 (8... View Details

23 Oct 2023
Blog Post

HBS Career Journeys | John Guzek

HBS Career & Professional Development sat down with students to talk about their career journeys. John Guzek (MBA 2023) recounts the origins of his desire to combine social enterprise with entrepreneurship, and how his career coach... View Details

21 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Telling Your Story: How to Create a Powerful Personal Digital Brand

There are many ways one may define a "personal brand," but for Sasha Grinshpun, an HBS career coach and the founder/principal of Sasha360 and Talent Mosaic, there is one unmistakable sign of successful personal branding: the... View Details

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

entrepreneurship, I took time over the previous semester to speak with and learn from the numerous Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiRs) at the HBS Rock Center. The EiRs are experienced founders and mentors who offer their time to coach... View Details

01 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'

“It’s a match made in heaven!” One hears this said at weddings, at the end of mergers, at the hiring of CEOs, and, of course, at the hiring of coaches in the National Football League. Human history is rife with examples of a union of two... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

02 Feb 2017
News

Teaching the Patriot Way to Harvard MBAs

10 Apr 2023
Video

Career Journeys | John Guzek

21 Oct 2021
News

Four Leadership Principles That Reflect the True Heart of Business

30 Oct 2019
News

From the playing field to the boardroom

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap

As a career coach at HBS, Matt Spielman (MBA 1999) has heard the groans of frustrated professionals who are unhappy in their current jobs and faced with an urgent question: should they leave immediately or wait until they've secured their... View Details

22 Oct 2015
Video

Internship Search Q&A

18 Nov 2024
Video

Connext 2024: Fireside Chat with Tommy Amaker

October 1995 (Revised January 2002)
Background Note

Managing Performance

By: John J. Gabarro and Linda A. Hill

Encourages managers to think critically about how to prepare for and give a performance appraisal interview. Presents frameworks for evaluating subordinates' work and suggestions for coaching them. View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Framework