coaching - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

generation of players," O'Reilly notes. "There are 10,000 youth football leagues across the country, and our goal is that all coaches be certified and that each league has a designated player-safety coach." JUST SUPER: Patriots owner... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2008
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Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale

Development Program, which involves a series of small-group meetings throughout the year, personal assessment exercises, peer and faculty feedback, plus coaching and mentoring. After two years of the new curriculum, “the response has been... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)

Three years ago, Minnie Ingersoll pressed her career coach with a basic query: What does a COO actually do? After 12 years at Google, Ingersoll had cofounded the online car marketplace Shift in 2013, taking on the unfamiliar role. “I... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

01 Dec 2008
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Career Services Shifts into High Gear

the Class of ’08, current students, and employer relations,” says MBA Career Services Managing Director Jana Pompadur Kierstead. “We’ll be adding to our career coaching staff, compiling a résumé book for the Class of ’08, and doing more... View Details

01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal

concussions could lead to brain injury, depression, and the early onset of dementia. (The attempted suicide in August 2010 of his Michigan team captain Corwin Brown, a former NFL player and member of the New England Patriots and Notre Dame View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 2010
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Rethinking the MBA

propose, institutions’ first reaction is to say, “Yes, but how do you go about doing that?” Our detailed examples were developed with just this question in mind. The second barrier is a skills gap. If you’re going to teach leadership development, you need faculty with... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Sep 2016
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For the Good of Society

proclaims, is the pursuit of impact absent available resources, boy did we define that! “I’ve kept a journal for almost 40 years now. And in 1991 I wrote in that journal about the Make-a-Difference Company; it was a new entity that was going to use my experiences in... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Inside Modern HR

bet on an HBS graduate who has no direct experience in the field, but who has a strong business background and a deep interest in how talent and organizational decisions drive performance. The game changers in this field will have strong business acumen, analytical... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

that experience,” he adds. A devoted father of three, over the years Klarman has made family a top priority, taking time to coach his daughters’ soccer teams and attend his son’s piano recitals. Together with his wife, Beth, he has also... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

through innovative social-impact models, in particular by moving toward a coaching and consulting role. She encourages current HBS students interested in social impact to not follow someone else’s idea of a path for success, but rather to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game

surveys used by Bloomberg Businessweek and U.S. News are subject to bias by relying so heavily on judgments from recent graduates, deans, and administrators. Students understand the value of graduating from a top-ranked institution and may grade their school... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)

their time on the conference circuit, selling to the wrong audience. At the end of the day, I was only as good as the next woman in Indiana deciding if she wanted to play FarmVille or not. Bill Campbell is the most gifted coach I’ve ever... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; alumni

24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

trust of the communities they serve.” For the Oregon Community Partners, that has meant teaming up with Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), a micro-lending organization providing entrepreneurs of color with opportunities for financial View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Nov 2017
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Rushing Yards

Gazette. Howard knows the game well, having played high school football in Plano, Texas, before his recruitment to the Air Force Academy by head coach Fisher DeBerry, who told Howard he wanted to help him not only play football, but... View Details

18 May 2023
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Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers, by Sean Covey (MBA 1994), as a curriculum. "The kids saw all these people really caring for them," Wilfong says. That support made a difference. As the 20th anniversary of Can Do approached in 2022, Wilfong—now an executive... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Jul 2024
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A Sporting Chance

varied career, which has included jobs in consulting, technology, retail, and finally real estate. Looking for a way to stay healthy after his accident, Perez de Leza first took up hand-crank cycling, and then adaptive skiing. Inspired, he started recruiting and... View Details

31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders

teacher. Of course, that was a path for me where I really found who I was at my core. And I want to share that with others and allow them to discover who they are. And then, of course, the eating disorder recovery coaching practice has... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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All Hands on Deck

number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big data throughout their careers. The CPD team is also meeting students’ increased... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

The pair worked with club sponsor Faye Thorek of Thorek/Scott and Partners to produce the virtual panel event. Stark, an executive coaching and leadership development consultant and founder and president of Stark Coaching, served as... View Details