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- 2009
- Working Paper
Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others
By: Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate
This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of the work. We present data from an exploratory...
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Competency and Skills;
Learning;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Product Development;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior
Soule, Deborah L., and Lynda M. Applegate. "Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-084, January 2009.
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
tendency for leaders to engage in monitoring, leading to a reduction in felt autonomy among employees. Reduced autonomy on the job may lead to lower well-being. One of the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria
further changes and work toward ways of identifying leadership potential, enhanced test availability worldwide, accessibility by computer, and our own commitment to learn from and improve our admissions...
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- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing staffing assistance to hospitals...
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- 13 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
How To Hire A Millennial
the largest portion of the workforce and already starting to rewrite the rules. Companies must learn to play by those rules or risk losing out. Gradual changes View Details
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All Industries
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
the more eclectic business careers of the last few decades. His entrepreneurial journey culminated (at least temporarily) in the sale of his electric toothbrush company to Procter & Gamble for almost a half-billion dollars. Not bad...
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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
If you want to become good at early-stage investing, you need to learn how to size up the fundamental elements of an opportunity. Many investors...
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by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
Education Elements in San Francisco. “We created a pot of money—a prize—to get people to focus on what we thought was important.” This unique approach was the result of a meeting with drug companies and top researchers convened by Kremer...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
From Product Development to Business School
I sat there silently screaming. Eyes flitting across the room at the faces sitting around the table gathered for a Brita leadership team meeting. They couldn’t possibly do it, I thought to myself, clutching my 3D-printed prototype like a...
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- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
managers shift to three key measures of performance: results, group cohesion, and employee learning and satisfaction. Focusing on those measures, she says, ensures managers are tracking what is actually...
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by Michael Blanding
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
might apply to earning a degree or learning a new skill, some entrepreneurs value persistence to an excess, Eisenmann says. “Founders hear about other entrepreneurs who pulled...
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by Danielle Kost
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 14 Mar 2017
- Webinars: Career
The Flip: How to Rethink Networking
Networking can be intimidating. It is not always easy, however, it can be beneficial if you change your perspective and "flip" your view of the situation. This requires flipping your perception of yourself, your jobs, and most importantly, your relationships. Rather...
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- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
In randomized control trials all over the world, instead of giving access to a loan, a one-time cash grant was found to have transformative impacts on livelihoods and businesses six months, one year, five...
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- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
their time by providing directors with better information. As we mention in the book, encourage directors to get out and do things between the meetings to learn more about the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
work of creating new processes, systems, and behaviors. You've learned, however, that it is important to lay the groundwork much earlier on. What attracted you to the "Alpha Corporation" in order...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
“Hybrid work is here to stay We now communicate differently—and better—in online meetings. We learned how to use these tools more effectively because we had View Details
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by James Heskett
- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
that a culture limits the kinds of strategies that can be executed. As Edgar H. Schein has put it, “More and more management consultants are recognizing ... that, because culture constrains strategy, a company must analyze its culture and View Details
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by Avery Forman
- March 2015 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
CV Ingenuity (A): How to Evaluate the Commercial Viability of New Health Care Technologies
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Andrew Otazo
Duke Rohlen (HBS MBA ’01) hoped to win over a prominent venture capital investor for Series B financing of his firm CVI that was creating a drug-eluting balloon (DES) to treat peripheral arterial disease. As a second-mover, Duke felt he was more likely to acquire...
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CV Ingenuity;
CVI;
Drug Eluting Balloon;
DEB;
Drug Eluting Stent;
Angioplasty Balloon;
FoxHollow;
Medical Device;
Medical Device Startup;
Premarket Approval;
PMA;
Lutonix;
Stellarex;
LEVANT;
ILLUMENATE;
Clinical Trials;
Peripheral Arterial Disease;
PAD;
Healthcare Startups;
Covidien;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Testing and Trials;
Business Startups;
Commercialization;
Health Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States;
Europe
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Andrew Otazo. "CV Ingenuity (A): How to Evaluate the Commercial Viability of New Health Care Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 315-045, March 2015. (Revised January 2024.)
- 12 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery
Before this, I had spent years solidifying my knowledge of disease mechanisms, understanding clinical medicine paradigms, and most importantly, learning how to empathize with patients from all walks of life....
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- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
proposals. It's important to know when to declare a winner, especially when relationships are involved. New MBAs sometimes learn this lesson to...
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by Michael Wheeler