Groups And Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a company's order management cycle... View Details

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

for a company with Palm's record and prospects. Handspring's birth, in July 1998, was huge news in the high-technology industry. Dubinsky and her colleagues had made an enormous success of PalmPilot View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

of the ways in which ideas, images, and other forms of organizational content pass between leaders and employees, or from one employee (or group of employees) to another. It... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

structures you establish can make a big difference in fostering creativity. You should set up work groups so that people will stimulate each other and learn from each other, so that they're not homogenous in... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

Working PapersConsistency and Monotonicity in One-Sided Assignment Problems Authors:Bettina Klaus and Alexandru Nichifor Abstract One-sided assignment problems combine important features of two well-known... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

IBM Finds Profit in Diversity

understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers," according to HBS professor David A. Thomas. Since then, the... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

investors succeed in volatile, cyclical markets as far ranging as real estate, high technology, and truck transport. In Waves in Ship Prices and Investment, a National Bureau of Economic Research working... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

“Getting the right leaders and managers is important. But putting the right management system in place enhances the performance of all existing team members. People come and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

accuracy.) The researchers also hired a team of workers through the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a popular source of data processing assistance. The workers examined the property photos on each listing View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

simultaneously hit a particular organizational unit and require so much change that the unit is effectively paralyzed into inactivity. The portfolio approach forces all of these projects from different parts of the organization to be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

(“Roland Garros”) for a record tenth time. Krajicek’s plan for the upcoming edition was to focus his recruiting efforts on five exciting, mostly younger, players, and assemble a group of top-20 players... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2016
First Look

July 26, 2016

Business School Case 316-177 The Priceline Group: Booking a Place for the Future The chairman of the Priceline Group is considering the actions he must take to confront an evolving external environment, new direct competition,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

digital assets are (they're not always obvious). A team of senior managers from across the company should take an inventory of data and systems, assess how valuable each is to the company, View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

August 2011
Teaching Note

Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008 (TN)

By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried

Teaching Note for 309-069. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Decisions; Management Teams; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States

Citation

Purchase

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

When electronic component distributor Arrow decided it had to be on the Internet, it gave the Arrow.com team terrific new offices, hired young newcomers, and essentially sent a message to mainstay Arrow... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

development process. In their paper, Iansiti and Richards divide a sampling of OSS projects into a "money-driven" or "community-driven" cluster. The former group has received over $2... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

critical and creative thinking, as well as communication skills. "These skills lie much more on the 'doing' side of the scale than the 'knowing' side," says Datar. Such soft-skills development by its very nature involves... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

for corporate groups in Latin America from working within protected economies and industries to being completely open to the global economy," he said. "We're going to have to be much more... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

with the results that NAFTA has produced. But it seems not to have receded in interest among at least one group of readers of this column. The column "What Lies Beyond NAFTA?," with a focus on future responses to issues... View Details