Leading Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

overhead often causes support function employees to go on the defensive, attempting to prove their worth by becoming corporate bureaucrats who enforce sometimes meaningless rules in an attempt to affect the bottom line. This unfortunately View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

probabilities below present values," adding that failing to do so could lead to losses upwards of $1 trillion annually. "Most skeptics I have come across are not skeptical of global warming or climate change itself, but argue that we... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics training to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

their lives in the office, they'd like that time to be spiritually as well as materially rewarding." Leading experts on the topic, including Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64), a professor at the University of St. Thomas business school in... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Apr 2000
News

Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

gaining access to venture capital, the benefits of acquiring and transforming existing businesses, the challenges of leading diverse organizations, and the successful management of community-based ventures. Several alumni participated on... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

adjacent parking lot, which he hopes will be part of a redevelopment project when the nearby Joe Louis Arena, where the Detroit Red Wings hockey team plays, is demolished. “This is an area that eventually is going to get developed. It... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

Racial Asymmetries, and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Performance Authors:Robin J. Ely, Irene Padavic, and David A. Thomas Publication:Organization Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper argues that learning in cross-race... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Boston University Sanaz Mobasseri is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and the Faculty Lead for the Antiracist Tech Initiative at the Center for Antiracist Research.... View Details

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

teams to win, but also to lay odds for other punters to back. This business model allows punters to cut out the middleman of the bookmaker and leads to a much more efficient two-sided market. Betfair.com's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

professional achievement and organizational responsibilities. Answering Your Questions: Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning... View Details

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Chap. 5 in Enterprise Risk Management: Today's Leading Research and Best Practices for Tomorrow's Executives. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Enterprise risk management, under the leadership... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful. As a consequence, many management teams are stuck in a wait-and-see posture in response to extreme uncertainty in the post-COVID environment, while others are making panicky... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 15

is interesting, engaging, or positively challenging. In its highest form, it is called passion and can lead to complete absorption in the work (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990). The elements that make up intrinsic motivation include a sense of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

all highly successful. But they also share something in common: failure. Steve Schwarzman: You don't grow just by winning games. You have to lose a few to figure out how to make your team better. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck,... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details

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

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

while also bolstering private-sector demand for LEED buildings." Leading With Leed There are multiple environmental assessment tools available to governments and building developers in the United States, including the International Code... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

Kudos. “It was very hard to go through IVF, and I chose to be open about it with my team and investors,” Saigal said. “It turned out to be positive, and I received lots of support all around. There’s never going to be a perfect time to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

The team was scrappy, committed, and aligned with what Ramirez had identified as her calling while leaving Wall Street. “My North Star during my search was, how do I make some of the volunteer work that I'm doing with nonprofits, which is... View Details

Teaching Interest

General Management: Processes and Action

General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Management; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Strategic Planning; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Computer Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry; Information Industry; Legal Services Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; Retail Industry; Video Game Industry; China; India; United States

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

poverty and to support microentrepreneurs in their endeavors? That's the bigger picture." Under-savers Anonymous In 2008, Pomeranz's research team began interviews with microentrepreneurs in Chile that led to a 2012 working paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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