Team Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

the entire team) and intrapersonal team diversity (i.e., whether individuals on the team are more or less specialized). We also examine whether team familiarity—team members'... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

of Operations at Spire Inc. Gain an overarching framework to evaluate opportunities, manage startups, and finance new ventures. My favorite part of Entrepreneurship Essentials was the financing and equity module. It taught me the basics... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

first, LIFE Matrix (see below), offers insights about managing time, dealing with trade-offs between work and life, and how choices correlate with joy, meaningfulness, achievement, and life satisfaction. Another tool, currently being... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

13 May 2019
Blog Post

The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS

classes (or on a bus in Lima during FIELD 2!) was my particular challenge – and I regret losing that casual social time with section-mates. But it was clear to me throughout that the HBS community wanted me to thrive and I always felt supported by professors, the... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

in 2013, Hilton noted a lack of job opportunities in renewable energy. So, he went into management consulting and then a software company, before landing at Tesla in 2017. The culture was challenging but “It was the most exciting clean... View Details

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

learned first-hand about this inequity as a child in Philadelphia’s public schools. During a recent interview with Manny Maceda, Bain & Company’s worldwide managing partner, Frazier reflected on his experience: “My younger sister and... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

School of Public Health. The handwashing experiment In partnership with engineers at the MIT Media Lab, the researchers designed a simple wall-mounted soap dispenser with a time-stamped sensor hidden inside. The sensor allowed the team to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

February 2025
Supplement

eBee: Affordable Mobility for Africa

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Gamze Yucaoglu and Jordan Mitchell

The case opens in March 2023, as Sten van der Ham and Jaap Maljers, CEO and co-founder of eBee, an electric bike (e-bike) company in Africa, are contemplating the different avenues for growth and path to profitability for the young and ambitious company. In 2023, the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation; Competition; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Expansion; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurial Finance; Bicycle Industry; Africa; Kenya

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19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107028 The Virtual Entrepreneurial Team Exercise—VETE; Overview and Instructions for Participants Harvard Business School Note 806-158 PublicationsCRM Implementation:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make decisions and act on them without having to consult an executive at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

advantage. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/11/how-great-companies-think-differently/ar/1 Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk—Part I Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes Publication:Balanced Scorecard Report 13, no. 4... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Ellen Mahoney | About

management team, Ellen works closely with the School’s leadership on organizational design, human resources strategic initiatives, talent management, recruitment, compensation, professional development, and labor relations. Ellen is a... View Details

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2001
News

Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

"but it needs the support of a solid management team at a fairly early stage in the company's evolution." Having reached the top echelon of a profession that has been both financially and personally... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of Color View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

As the COVID-19 virus pandemic began to sweep across the world, Doug McMillon and his team at Walmart watched in horror. Suddenly, they realized, tomorrow would be nothing like “business as usual” and everything in the company’s marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

developers and 27 percent wanted sales leads, 13 percent were looking for growth marketers and 7 percent wanted front-end developers/UX/designers. Sure, it’s fine to look for a generalist [or augmenting your team with an outsourced dev... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

September 2017
Case

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking service provider with several of the... View Details