Team Building - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

list began in 1955. The figures are only slightly better beyond the corner office. According to a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for 4.7 percent of executive team members in the Fortune 100, a percentage... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

payroll). Today, we have almost 50 people working at Flatiron School. One of the great benefits of working with an incredible team is that your job isn’t necessarily to manage them, as much as it is to make sure they have what they need... View Details

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset

collaborating with local preservation groups. “I loved going to different parts of the country and learning how important a sense of local place and culture is to people,” Cohen says. Cohen had served on the finance team for former... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage... View Details

22 Jan 2018
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

Osmosis team (Editor's note: Shiv is cofounder and CEO of Osmosis) and the work we are collectively doing to improve how we educate current and future health care professionals. This recognition would not have been possible without the... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

06 May 2019
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Startup Talk in Chicago

Entrepreneurship Council within the club in 2006, and has led a dedicated team of alumni in developing a robust network connecting entrepreneurs with mentors, investors, and industry leaders. “The Distinguished Speaker Series has brought... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2025
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Alumni and Faculty Books

impressions; methods for optimizing communication productivity; how to build strong relationships at a distance; ways to win negotiations and solve conflicts from behind a screen, and more. With enlightening stories, interviews with top... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

AACE Foods I have always been passionate about creating change through building businesses on the African continent. A defining moment for me was partnering with friends in 1999 to start an internet café in the neighborhood I grew up in... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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Marked Managers

someone on their IPO team who once worked at Baxter. Abbott people were in management, but, on average, it took them longer to get to the top, in part because they didn’t have as much prior general management experience. Are some managers... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2020
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Righting the Ship

Fourth, Shackleton made his men believe that they could do it, that they could all get back to safety alive. How did he do this, create such self-belief in his team and thus make them part of the solution? Partly by his showing up every... View Details

01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949

within a year of the crisis, thanks to decisions by Burke and his team to recall millions of bottles and replace them in a matter of weeks with pioneering tamper-resistant packaging while keeping the media and public well informed, the... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

faculty to be intellectual entrepreneurs who transform how we think about management problems and improve management practice. We also began to foster collective intellectual ambition—to rally teams of faculty to take on more significant... View Details

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

HBS Alumni Angels team hopes to replicate. “Of course we want to present another conference,” says Kovacs. “This one was really amazing. Can lightning strike twice?” The organizers worked steadily with HBS, Stanford and the conference... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

Steve Easterbrook, was named president and CEO, and the turnaround was on. Chris Kempczinski (MBA 1997) had left Kraft Foods in September 2015, when he connected with Easterbrook, who was looking for someone to help him fine-tune his strategy. Kempczinski joined the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

day, that came through. But, you know, that's the only assessment I would give. DM: You think you earned this reputation through mutual respect. That you would, you know ... JI: Yeah. And doing things when I didn't need it. I wasn't View Details

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

What is Outward Bound Professional? We have five centers across the country specifically directed at a wilderness-based learning experience for corporate groups. We use the same principles that inform the longer courses for kids to help a group of individuals View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

Netflix, Pixar, Salesforce, and Facebook. “During the time I was president, we held three in-person dinners, honoring Twitter, Workday, and Yelp, says Susan Hailey (MBA 1984), current HBSANC board chair and former president. “It was a true View Details