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Finding Your Family at HBS - MBA

Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
  • 06 May 2015
  • News

A passion for education

Susan Wolf Ditkoff (MBA 2001) brings her business know-how to the nonprofit sector as a partner at the Bridgespan Group and as chairman of her local school committee. (Published May 2015) View Details
  • 13 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

research work, writing, and reading it became even clearer to me that I was on the edge of understanding and adopting two principles: Leaders need a healthy dose of narcissism to lead, and they also need a healthy dose of paranoia to avoid the trap of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2019
  • News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

from a local public school, and each adult volunteer was assigned a team of about 7 kids. These groups were tasked with starting and running a company while the adult volunteers would act as consultants to help out when needed, mostly... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment
  • September 2007 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal

By: Michel Anteby and Nitin Nohria
Michael Fernandes, the Director of Custom Manufacturing Operations at the pharmaceutical company Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL), schedules a meeting with three of his reports, whose interpersonal conflicts with one another are causing his business development... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Management Skills; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Cooperation; Pharmaceutical Industry; India; United Kingdom; Canada
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services

By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • September 1997 (Revised May 1998)
  • Case

Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace

By: Lynn S. Paine and Dale Coxe
This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The recommendations developed for the company by former U.S. Labor Secretary Lynn Marten are presented. In response to... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Attitudes; Problems and Challenges; Working Conditions; Crime and Corruption; Auto Industry; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Your Own Medicine

interested in what they were doing and wanted to stay in touch. In subsequent conversations in the spring of 2010, the Secklers told Williams about HT-100. Williams went to work, offering the venture capital group that held the compound a... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • Career Coach

Pav Guraya

Pav is a social impact/nonprofit industry veteran (consulting/advisory) and career-switcher (strategy consulting). He enjoys assisting students interested in making career changes, particularly into consulting and especially for... View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Behavior
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  • July 1997 (Revised October 2003)
  • Case

Chattanooga Ice Cream Division,The

By: Carl S. Sloane
Senior functional officers (marketing, manufacturing, research & development, control, and human resources) clash over alternative ideas for turning around a business in decline. The general manager is faced not only with choosing between competing ideas, but also... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Managerial Roles; Conflict Management; Decisions; Performance
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Where Innovation Rules

Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg;Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Educational Services; Management
  • June 2018 (Revised June 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together

By: Boris Groysberg, Tricia Gregg and Katherine Connolly Baden
Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-048. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Communication; Cooperation; Decision Making; Leadership
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

insisted that the greatest barriers for inner city development today are negative perceptions. These areas are not just economically distressed because of social issues, he said, adding that unless businesspeople take steps to build... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2018
  • News

Game-Changing Analytics

As CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) is working “to change the conversation around how data analytics are used in the sports and entertainment business.” Spun off from its Kraft Sports View Details
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market

government and interest groups that also seek market imperfections and try to fix them through legal or social means. "These non-market forces can affect the 'rules' of competition: think of Google's... View Details
  • July 2014
  • Teaching Note

Rebecca S. Halstead: Steadfast Leadership

By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
The case reviews Rebecca Halstead's career history, detailing how, through her personal attributes, skills, experiences, challenges, and organizational practices she developed into a successful leader and commander in the U.S. Army. The teaching note discusses... View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Leadership; Leadership And Managing People; Working Conditions; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Gender; Power and Influence
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  • 20 Jan 2015
  • News

Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

launched programs to sell MedKaz to each prospective market segment—to consumers and groups with specific healthcare needs, to corporations that can offer MedKaz as an employee wellness benefit, and to such government entities as the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

  Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • News

Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years

the significant debt that might have hindered his social entrepreneurship goals. The idea for the Fundación México en Harvard was born in 1989 after a small group of Mexican HBS graduates learned a single,... View Details
Keywords: April White