Coaching - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2011
News

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

30 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)

consumer-related paths in her RC year and connected with Career Coaches to discuss consulting, retail, and consumer goods. Top of mind was finding a summer internship in which she could contribute to the company’s success and grow as a... View Details

Keywords: Retail

07 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

Your support structure can include a partner or friend group, advisors and coaches who can help think about the trickier parts of the business, and excellent independent board members with operational expertise. Twist also notes the... View Details

06 Nov 2015
Blog Post

Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS

come to business school? Growing up in inner city Dallas I always thought the real horizon was going to school and playing football in Texas. One day my junior year a coach from Yale showed up and asked me if I wanted to go to Yale.... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Closing the 'Network Gap'

Candoor, a two-person startup focused on the importance of having coaching and feedback from someone within a company when applying for a job. Austin calls the partnership a “smart and self-aware” step toward their big-picture goals. “The... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

solve a problem or achieve a set of goals. “Companies aren’t hiring to fill a role,” says Ng, who is also a career coach and advisor at Harvard College. “Companies are hiring to solve a problem or achieve a set of goals. And if they are... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

career coaching or advising in both high school and college is absolutely essential. And that’s something we’re doing a lot of work on. The third big focus area is affordability, which sort of speaks for itself. The fourth is work-based... View Details

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

even the most important aspect." Talent is overrated. That you're not very talented needn't be the end of it.— John Irving, quoting his former wrestling coach For the American Psychologist article, Amabile said, she used Irving's... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2021
News

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

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

of spiraling expectations in motion," Bussgang said, "When you get back home, after flying coach and staying in the Holiday Inn, you sweat like hell" to make it all come true. By mid-year, UPromise's 70 employees sprawled... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217004-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-041 ZenRecruit: Sales Coaching and Performance Reviews Amara Kaggwa leads the small but rapidly expanding sales team at ZenRecruit, a recruiting... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

simultaneously and meeting personal due dates and quality standards. More importantly, we have the skills to coach teams to meet their deadlines and standards as well. Second, I learned that I love helping teams that are making real... View Details

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

as putting someone on your back and getting them over the hill, you are changing your approach to: How can we use this hill to build your capacity to get over the next one? “You’re not trying to fix someone,” Margolis said. “[You’re saying]: ‘It’s no longer my job as a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

assessed skills and used both deep learning and low-touch career coaching to uncover talent that may be overlooked by traditional applicant tracking systems. Our results were very promising, but we felt a tug towards the downstream pain... View Details

28 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni

year into his first post-HBS role at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Francis spoke with his manager about occasionally requiring extra turnaround time for certain tasks as a result of his Dyslexia. In response, BCG paired Francis with a View Details

14 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

when you're trying to understand what all the different functions of a company are,” she said. Another lesson – the pull she felt towards the fitness and wellness world wasn’t going away. With that in mind, after a year, Gomih reached back out to HBS, connected with... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

What We’re Reading

a coxswain, a sculler, and a high school coach. The truth is that almost everyone who has rowed has their own boys-in-the-boat story. That’s part of the beauty of the sport. —Bill Becklean (MBA 1968) has coached the boys’ crew team at the... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2010
News

Money Matters

arrive by motorcycle, a popular form of transportation. Inside, an iTrust relationship manager coaches a new financial adviser. While having a plan is essential, execution is the truly hard part. “India has certain quirks,” Varma... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

your old habits and interests, like painting or pottery, put yourself in a position where you can put the same level of effort and energy into something that's more restorative and something that you want to return to. Then, from there, you can step down the intensity... View Details

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

strong, talented women. What a better place the world is--and how fortunate I am--when extraordinary women, and indeed all people, can make their full contributions! I’m especially grateful to the folks who have coached me, over the... View Details

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