External Team Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

teams applied to the New Ventures Competition (NVC), competing in one of three tracks—Alumni, Social Enterprise, and Student Business. While student teams prepared on campus, alumni View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

02 May 2016
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Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math

Cares, and Big Picture Learning, Math Hoops is a fast-paced board game that challenges student teams to solve math problem on a 24-second clock. Now in use in schools across the country and tied to Common Core state standards, the game is... View Details

25 May 2016
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FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers

FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) course. “I was interested in entrepreneurship, but I didn’t think that I was cut out for it,” says the Princeton economics major. “FIELD 3 took down a lot of the barriers.”... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch

experience to guide the creative team and to see our vision come to life,” reported Aragon, an active participant in theater for many years. “It was also a practical application of many classroom principles: We encountered financial,... View Details

Keywords: Lee-Ann Landis; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

Photography by Robert Schoen Lori Schock, copresident of the HBS Student Association, defines her leadership role as being an activist for students' priorities. “When I go to meetings, I'm constantly thinking of the hundreds of other... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Brill

13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

13 May 2014
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Willing Hands

place," he explains. "The team just needed a coach to get them organized to run the right plays." He cites HBS for providing that know-how, and more: "Do we need to be able to build a decision tree and create a net present value on a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

Professor emeritus, William A. Sahlman, the conversation covered the range of leadership challenges that Mango and Bingham faced while managing both private sector and government partners on an expedited timeline, while searching for an... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2020
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Karmic Kickstart

institution of higher learning. His job offer—to serve on a highly effective and motivated five-member team launching a new approach to education in a very special country—was the start of an extraordinary rebirth for both of us. Over the... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

10 Dec 2015
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Leveraging Curiosity to Broaden the Impact

seeing the product that was eventually going to touch someone’s life,” he says. “While I am still passionate about engineering, I want to work with people and teams in the business world to broaden my impact, especially in strategic... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2017
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How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

developed at Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic. Kevin Bennet (MBA 1980) chairs the hospital’s 102-year-old engineering department, where some of the first machines designed to keep patients alive during open-heart surgery were developed. Today, Bennet oversees a View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

20 Oct 2020
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Why Work-from-Anywhere Is Here to Stay

01 Aug 2002
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

are eager to benefit from more of the excellent educational experience they received in their initial time at HBS. Under the capable leadership of Eric Turner (MBA '82), the Committee on Recent Graduates Transitioning into Alumni worked... View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

home-care medical team would be nearby. On a Monday afternoon draped in mid-October grays, Dr. Komei Umeda and a nurse make the 20-minute drive from the clinic in Tokyo’s western Setagaya ward. They walk up the stone path, under a... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2012
News

Cracks in the Foundation

actions to boost America's competitive standing-one decision at a time. That call to action lies at the heart of the School's new US Competitiveness Project, chaired by Porter and Rivkin and involving a team of HBS faculty and thought... View Details

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

01 Oct 1998
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Tech Trekker

products outside the United States, which amounted to 50 percent of its entire business. Again Lang made good - under her leadership Lotus's international products outpaced those of all competitors, including industry giant Microsoft, on... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Mar 2015
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Committed To HBS’s Success

year. The Class of 1964 led off with a 50th Reunion gift total of $37,259,587, the all-time highest gift ever raised by a single class. That record held for six months until the Class of 1989, in honor of its 25th Reunion, raised a phenomenal $78,701,451. View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding that, as HBS professor James E.... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2006
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Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS

To help Chinese CEOs operate more effectively in the global economy, HBS has teamed up with two other business schools to develop the Global CEO Program for China (GCPC), an Executive Education offering consisting of four week long... View Details