Team Member Fluidity - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

well subscribed program. We're now looking into the possibility of launching an executive education program for physicians, physician leaders of health care providers. Q: Do the faculty members in the initiative have backgrounds or... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/109079-PDF-ENG IBM in the 21st Century: The Coming of the Globally Integrated Enterprise Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 308-105 Members of IBM's fifth Integration and Values View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

values and pay them fairly, it seems an interesting proposal for both the company and the individual." Juan Manuel Salas Guevara commented that the challenge in Holacracy "is a strong communication process from the top level of the organization that enables... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

with women who were partners for at least five years (listed as such in both 1995 and 2000). We believed that having a woman on the decision-making team would, 1) attract more deals from women entrepreneurs, and 2) might actually have... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

organizations predict how people outside of the organization perceive it, and how they might get that judgment wrong,” Lees says. “It didn’t take me long to realize how that sort of judgment applies in other contexts.” He teamed up with... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

reactors lacked sufficient power to achieve cooldown. To prevent the disaster experienced up north, the site superintendent, Naohiro Masuda, and his team had to connect them to the plant's surviving power sources. In a volatile... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

an unconditional bonus would reciprocate by working harder. In the gift condition, the sales team was told the company had decided to give each member a bonus, which would be paid at the end of the week. In... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

Case 614-063 Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A) In 2006, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals was a fast-growing biotechnology company. Its leadership team was divided over whether to keep R&D organized in functional departments or transition... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

Business School faculty members highlight the leadership skills and qualities that separate the good from great. How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak COVID-19 put many small businesses on life support. Karen G. Mills,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

in, and when they did, they saw a warm, welcoming city, with attractive facilities and convenient infrastructure. Team Great Britain also vastly exceeded expectations, earning 65 medals in the Games compared to 19 four years earlier and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

that data. However, Sportradar's core business was thriving, whereas a recent attempt to branch out into video player tracking systems had proved to be a costly failure. The team weighed the pros and cons of various media ventures,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

Ask board members their most important duty, and they will likely say it is appointing and overseeing the CEO. Yet many boards fail to make appropriate choices, often because they don’t prepare candidates for the challenges they will... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

emphasis needs to be on process, on the journey, not on end points." Marc Michaelson reminded us that "when individuals manage their lives well, they make better teams and stronger organizations." Respondents also provided... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

commit to funding of any particular transaction. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-106.pdf Leveraging Team Familiarity to Handle Uncertainty: A Resource-based View of Team Performance... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

nine member team. Workers assigned to better bosses are less likely to leave the firm. A separate normalization implies that the average boss is about 1.75 times as productive as the average worker. Publisher's link:... View Details

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

like, you need to include everyone in your tent not just the giants like Teach For America and City Year." To that end, Lee has teamed up with HBS Associate Professor Julie Battilana to collect and analyze quantitative data on social... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

to their own professional lives. In this conversation with a member of the Executive Education staff, Professor Jay Lorsch, program chair, discusses the course, the significant role professional service firms play in the world's economy,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

it difficult to secure further venture capital investment. In the meantime, blockchain protocols were growing in popularity in technology circles and many blockchain projects were securing investment via Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Santos and his View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

to be inconsistent, if not contradictory. "In the ultimate analysis, however everything boils down to perception of the team members or subordinates or followers of the leader concerned." The... View Details