Team Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution

producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel Venture Management, algae biofuels were once the darlings of... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Clubs News Clubs News With more than $300,000 in cash and prizes on the line, 12 finalist teams pitched their hearts out at the 21st Annual New Venture Competition on April 18. Before a crowd of 500 HBS alumni, students, staff and guests,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

Executive Development Program (EDP), a special executive training course for the Bank's upper-level managers. "I felt that the World Bank's top people should have an intensive exposure to the latest ideas and techniques in the management... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights

woman who had climbed Everest," he recalls. "She drew a lot of parallels to business, including team effort and setting goals." Analytical and methodical by nature, and a mechanical engineer by training, Petzel began thinking about making... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jan 2011
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Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

services industry that includes supermarket chains, shopping malls, wind energy, and banks. Both his son, Murat (MBA 2003), and daughter, Aysecan (who holds an MBA from Stanford), work closely with him. "I'm still a hands-on manager of my... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Your Keyboard Is Listening

potential to change how doctors diagnose and treat neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s. Samzelius and his team at NeuraMetrix, based in the Bay Area, had been studying typing cadence, measuring how... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2002
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SVMP a High-Energy Success

SVMP chair Ben Esty, flanked by two participants. Classroom discussions, with an overall theme of international business, were exercises in engagement and learning for Jabulani Barber and Victoria Beatty. photos by Catherine Walsh The Summer Venture in View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

19 Jun 2018
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Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

volunteers. “We heard from three organizations,” says the program’s chair, Mark Chussil (MBA 1979). “We selected two, and will field teams for both of them, based on their needs, and the skills and experience of our volunteers.” The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1997
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Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)

Lawson, 27. "My partner and I were inexperienced managers, but we had a lot of energy and a solid business plan." Once she raised the seed capital, everything began to fall into place: she filled out the management View Details

01 Sep 2012
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Joint Venture

faculty have introduced game-changing thinking to management and business practice. And that work continues apace in the 21st century. In the pages that follow, we spotlight some of the “big ideas” HBS faculty are unveiling that we... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard

manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on, however, could be a struggle, with... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a... View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

think that you know, in my life, you know, I was a math nerd and a football player. Kind of ... DM: [laughs] JI: ... okay? I was a math nerd ... DM: It's a rare breed. JI: ... a very rare breed [laughing]. But I loved problem-solving. But I also liked View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up

growth at a 26-year-old regional business. Its self-described “Traegerite” customers were intensely loyal to the company’s signature wood pellet–fired grills and smokers. But he didn’t anticipate the challenge of managing a disgruntled,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand

01 Sep 2016
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New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview

objective. “It was so different from any other classroom environment I’d encountered,” says Losee, who became the School’s new managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid in June. “Everyone in the room was fully engaged in the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details

11 Apr 2017
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Keeping the Missions Under Control

Norman Knight (GMP 9, 2010) is Executive Flight Director at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In this interview, he talks about the unique blend of scientific and technical skills and the management expertise needed to send... View Details

13 Mar 2018
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission

they found a good place to hide in the mountains. The next day, though, that team was attacked, and here, Brady tells the story of the last-minute decision that kept him from the subsequent, ill-fated rescue mission, the difficult... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund

Novartis managers from around the world to pinpoint the company's key challenges. He wrote a case about the merger, coauthored by Executive Education's director of research Carin-Isabel Knoop, that served as a focal point for the program.... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

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