Managing Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

CSO should be placed on the executive team because the mere presence of the CSO at the C-suite table keeps sustainability on the agenda. It's important to articulate a compelling business case for such efforts and to make the strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49601 forthcoming Management Science Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2.4 Disciplinary Process | MBA

considers and develops their response MBA Student and Academic Services The MBA Student and Academic Services team provides support and advising to HBS students facing a wide range of challenges, including the disciplinary process.... View Details

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the venture capital industry who were on... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid firms. We find that View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

things, a person's comfort affects negotiating behaviors. If you want to drive a hard bargain, sit on a hard chair, while making your counterpart very comfortable. In short, control your surroundings and behaviors. But perhaps most interesting of all, Cuddy's View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

Fellows. The Leadership Fellows program is designed so that recent graduates can experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations (for one year) at a competitive salary. M – MS/MBA. The MS/MBA is... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

quite centrally and rapidly: The number of early-stage ventures that people were backing had exploded. Young, inexperienced teams were getting a chance to try their ideas in a way that hadn’t happened as much in the past. Why? Reading the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2009
News

Up on the Green Roof

ROOFTOP GARDEN: HBS project manager Kevin Ruby surveys Shad Hall’s newly planted perennials. Photographs by Neal Hamberg When it came time to replace the leaky roof on Shad Hall — runners joked of dodging buckets placed on the indoor... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction

05 Aug 2014
News

A Diversified Portfolio

funded. Dodi doesn't think VCs do this intentionally, "It's just that people invest in what they know and in who they are most comfortable with. When it's a choice between one team and another, they'll tend to fund people that are more... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Apr 2002
News

Pamela Thomas Graham

After ten years of working at McKinsey & Co., where she had become the first female African-American partner, Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89) was ready for a change. "Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in... View Details

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuation on low-price firms, managers will maintain share prices at lower levels, and vice-versa. Using measures of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

Shendure, who stepped down as CEO in 2016 but continues to serve as chair of the company’s board. The Oscilla team therefore abandoned its original approach and began modifying off-the-shelf generators for use with its Triton system. The... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

Advanced Management Program and a founding member of Intel. Now executive vice president of that corporation, he is also president of Intel Capital, a corporate venture capital unit investing in companies in this country and companies... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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1.9 Course Registration | MBA

1.9 Course Registration 1.0 Academic Information & Policies Course scheduling is managed through the Registrar’s Office. Required Curriculum Academic courses in the first year of the MBA Program are prescribed by the faculty. A student is... View Details

10 Feb 2021
Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

conversations around social justice. She couples her artistic talent with deep knowledge of how to educate and connect with people, skills she built as a dance and sociology major at Duke University and in her EdM in Policy and Management... View Details

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider focused on South Korea and China, and typically partners with Korean entrepreneurial firms. The Cherrypicks management team must decide how they should pitch the... View Details