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  • Blog

Your Coach Will Help You Become a Better Leader

different, all are designed to accelerate your growth as an individual, a team member, and a leader. Who are the coaches? Our executive coaches are seasoned professionals with proven success working with... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Team MBA

lacrosse season as a coach at Brookline High School, traveling, then back to the working world with a position in private equity. That’s a nice benefit. What else was valuable about the learning team... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 14 May 2009
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

coach who has great individual parts but can't get them to synchronize. From HBS Alumni Bulletin. Key concepts include: A potentially great team with strong individual contributors can quickly be undone by... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams

Source: rawpixel Very few businesses today can exist today without effective team work. So it's surprising that while many managers are regularly coached on how to lead individuals, training in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann

seeking a position within the nonprofit space and specifically for an organization that had mission and purpose in their DNA. I was fortunate to find a position in the marketing department for HBS’s Career Professional Development team. I spent more than a decade on... View Details
  • 29 May 2019
  • News

HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

Clubs News Clubs News A team from HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) hit the road in March with a goal of bringing career education and coaching services to alumni in 27 cities in the U.S. and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 1 Aug 2010
  • Conference Presentation

Firm Performance, Top Management and Minority Hiring: African‐American Coaches in the NFL, 1970‐2007

By: Andrew Hill and David Thomas
Studies of minority hiring have found that low-status firms are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management, which differs in the level of 1) uncertainty regarding the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Recruitment; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Ethnicity; Sports Industry; Africa; United States
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  • January–February 2019
  • Article

Who Loses When a Team Wins? Better Performance Increases Racial Bias

By: Letian Zhang
Although it is well known that organizational and team performance influences strategic decision-making, little is known about its impact on ascriptive inequality. This study proposes a performance effect on racial bias: higher team performance reduces managers’... View Details
Keywords: Discrimination; Race And Ethnicity; Performance Feedback; NBA; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Ethnicity; Performance; Sports
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  • Web

Virtual Job Search Teams - Alumni

Careers Virtual Job Search Teams Careers Virtual Job Search Teams Ready to make a career change? Considering that next step? Don’t struggle alone. Use the structure of a Virtual Job Search View Details
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

Determining how to successfully balance responsibilities, opportunities, and challenges is imperative to a positive and productive student experience. The Student and Academic Services (SAS) Support Services team in the MBA Program... View Details
  • 30 May 2025
  • News

Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte

HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 20 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

entirely brick and mortar body coaching business. Several months later when it was time to implement the plan Surette developed, Brady asked Surette to join his team full-time and drive progress forward.... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

entirely brick and mortar body coaching business. Several months later when it was time to implement the plan Surette developed, Brady asked Surette to join his team full-time and drive progress forward.... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

Leaders intent on boosting team performance could learn from the old-school, military-style approach of Deion Sanders, a former star athlete and now the unorthodox coach behind the revival of two college... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 22 Nov 2017
  • News

How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Between 2013 and 2016 the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers were one of the worst teams in the league. In 2014 they tied an NBA record with 24 consecutive losses. And... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

that they represent on-field leadership in an offence driven league, managers and coaches account for more than half the explained variance. More than 60 percent of starting quarterbacks during the 2019 season were acquired by their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • February 2022
  • Case

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Investment Company partnered with a bold ambition to deliver world class healthcare in the United Arab Emirates. In 2015, after nearly a decade of planning and construction, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi opened its doors. By... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Culture; Alignment; Organizational Effectiveness; Purpose; Impact; Leadership Development; Diversity; Collaboration; Co-creation; Learning Organizations; Empowerment; Teams; Team Dynamics; Teamwork; Team Effectiveness; Trust; Talent; Talent Development And Retention; Psychological Safety; Organizational Evolution; Coaching; Board; Analytics; Innovation; Data; Data Visualization; Digital Technology; Digital; Customer Experience; Experimentation; Change Management; Data-driven Decision-making; Debates; Ecosystem; Partnership; Telemedicine; Sustainability; Global Organizations; Local; Hospital; Healthcare; United Arab Emirates; Health Care and Treatment; Partners and Partnerships; Globalization; Quality; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Innovation and Management; Information Technology; Joint Ventures; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Abu Dhabi; United Arab Emirates
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  • February 2022
  • Case

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Investment Company partnered with a bold ambition to deliver world class healthcare in the United Arab Emirates. In 2015, after nearly a decade of planning and construction, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi opened its doors. By... View Details
Keywords: Organization Behavior; Culture; Alignment; Organizational Effectiveness; Purpose; Impact; Leadership Development; Diversity; Collaboration; Co-creation; Learning Organizations; Empowerment; Teams; Team Dynamics; Teamwork; Team Effectiveness; Trust; Talent; Talent Development And Retention; Psychological Safety; Organizational Evolution; Coaching; Board; Analytics; Innovation; Data; Data Visualization; Digital Technology; Digital; Customer Experience; Experimentation; Change Management; Data-driven Decision-making; Debates; Ecosystem; Partnership; Telemedicine; Sustainability; Global Organizations; Local; Hospital; Healthcare; United Arab Emirates; Health Care and Treatment; Partners and Partnerships; Globalization; Quality; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Innovation and Management; Information Technology; Joint Ventures; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Abu Dhabi; United Arab Emirates
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  • January 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Army Crew Team, The

By: Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey T. Polzer
The coach of the varsity Army crew team at West Point assembled his top eight rowers into the first crew team and the second tier of rowers into the second team using objective data on individual performance. As the second boat continually beat the first boat in races,... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Performance; New York (state, US)
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  • Career Coach

Sarah Sikowitz

Sarah (Kellogg '06) is the Director of Career Education and Coaching in the HBS Career and Professional Development office. Her team manages all the student and alumni programming, along with the career... View Details