Team Focus - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

“The findings of our study suggest that regulatory innovation can support more efficient drug development—in particular, in settings where we have unmet medical needs. This, in turn, could save and extend lives and motivate drug manufacturers to View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

When I first started teaching executive education classes at Harvard Business School, I was part of a team of five professors who conducted one-week programs for leaders of businesses from all across the globe. Most of my colleagues had... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

Patrick will focus on product and research development at Raia Health with the goal of using AI-driven supported care to reduce patient-related symptom load and improve treatment completion for anti-cancer medications. Patrick earned a... View Details

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

to improve shareholder value, never wavering on his commitment to sustainability. Since then, Unilever stock is up 20 percent from pre-bid levels, while Kraft Heinz stock declined 50 percent. Some consider Polman an enigma. One day he’s hailing the benefits of... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
Case

Kit Hinrichs at Pentagram (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker

This case focuses on Kit Hinrichs, a 65-year-old partner at Pentagram, a privately owned multidisciplinary design firm. One of the world's most prestigious design firms, Pentagram was founded by five designers from different disciplines in London in the 1970s. By 2008,... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Business Offices; Customer Relationship Management; Design; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Service Industry; San Francisco

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June 2021
Case

Acelero Learning

By: Mario Small, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen

In November 2020, Henry Wilde, co-founder and CEO of Acelero, Inc., must decide whether to change his company’s program model for delivering early childhood education to low-income children. One of the only for-profit Head Start providers in the United States, Acelero... View Details

Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Operations; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States

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22 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 22

expenditures on teammates lead to better performance in both sports teams in Canada and pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Professional Development - Alumni

What You're Looking For? You do not need to have a specific career focus to work with a coach. Coaches are skilled in helping HBS alumni get clarity in their careers and life. Looking to grow on the job? Find Out How Find Out How Similar... View Details

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Clubs & Consulting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

bono activities, alumni consulting teams in several cities offer nonprofit organizations business management expertise. Student Clubs The Social Impact Club , the Social Enterprise Conference , and a number of related clubs frequently... View Details

18 Mar 2016
Blog Post

What is an IFC?

sector and this was a chance to dive deep into challenges and opportunities facing the governments of Lima and Buenos Aires (with implications for cities across the world as well). The experience was similar to FIELD 2 in the RC year in that we had small View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between them. Moreover, we show that this effect occurs not only in the case of IGOs that focus on economic issues, but also on those with social... View Details

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Research Design - Impact Investments

Research Design Research Design The Project on Impact Investments uses multi-method research to build insight that is both expansive in its focus and detailed in its analysis. We combine the study of the larger universe of impact... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

perspective of collaboration. But this becomes a delicate balance between anti-competitive legal territory and the benefits of the collective development of standards and crystallization of emerging demand signals, all paving the way for smart regulation. This session... View Details

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Executive Education - Entrepreneurship

family. W ho should attend: Family business teams of 4-8 people, including owners and managers, multiple generations, and perhaps a non-family executive. Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

applicable. I felt like an impostor but I found over the next two years that impostor syndrome is nearly universal and always unfounded. All of us belong here and have enriched the HBS community in our own special way. I learned that my experience working at Google... View Details

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

success—strategies that could be applied in a variety of business departments. 1. Managers must assume a new professional identity. It’s crucial for managers to acknowledge they are shedding one professional identity to take on a new role with more of a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

in business communications. "You'll burn out, your team will resent you, your reputation will suffer, and the work probably won't all get done anyway." Conversely, if you offer resistance to new duties when the company is down,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

Thanks to the pioneering success of Toyota, the concept of a "lean" operating system has been implemented in countless manufacturing companies and even adapted for industries as diverse as insurance and healthcare. With its View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Professionals General Managers Consultants and Investors Develop a powerful, value-based strategy to achieve greater success for your team and organization. Participating in the student discussions was empowering. It ignited a drive... View Details

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