Team Focus - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Some workers struggle with commuting more than others As it turns out, just how stressful a commute feels depends on who you ask, with some workers feeling more bothered by long commutes than others. The results of three studies by Gino and her View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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HBS - The year in Review

overcoming every obstacle that the pandemic presented, to ensure the continuity of the School's work. Every team leaned in--from food service workers to security to technology and administrative support--whether on campus or remote. Their... View Details

01 Dec 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS FIELD Program?

foundations for working in and leading teams. There are various exercises surrounding communication, negotiation, team launches, emotional intelligence and self-awareness. The various forums set us all up for success in the remaining... View Details

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Valerie Porciello | About

services is to enable a holistic view across the life cycle of the faculty, from recruitment through retirement. The DRFD team's singular focus is supporting an environment where faculty members at all stages of their career have the... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

these priorities to each department and geographic region in order to better achieve overall organization objectives. "When a leadership has this discipline, they focus much more intently on what tasks they need to do superbly well... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

teach by the case method in new and different modalities. These were huge lifts for our IT and operations teams and for our faculty and students, and we failed fast (and often) many times before we were satisfied. But we also learned a... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

of experimenting with now. Luckily, we've raised enough to be able to work on that for a little while. So right now our team is trying a bunch of different growth experiments as well as experiments on the value proposition. We talked a... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

was a good inside fighter,” Keen says later. “I could take a lot of stomach hits. You get me up against the ropes and I can fight.” He also was a punter and placekicker on the football team his first year at Dartmouth, before moving over... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

or arrogance. Martina suggested that “pride in one’s organization stems from a collective reach for excellence, civility, and a humble perspective this is what is fostered by management teams who lead by example. Arrogance I believe comes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

small number of large major accounts, some mid-sized ones (the previous focus of the field sales force), and often a bunch of little ones. And, accounts are complex collections of diffuse buying teams... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

skills such as creating television ads and public-service announcements by joining teams formed to serve new accounts. 3. Focus on relationships. For many employees, loyalty is born or cemented through... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

25 Feb 2020
News

Task Force

meeting weekly at the Harvard i-lab, still talking, still sharing ideas. They also traveled to Mexico City in October 2017 to meet alumni (“I think we had 25 meetings in five days,” Campbell says) and conduct focus groups with potential... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

can reduce feelings of anxiety and isolation and replace them with feelings of empowerment and connectedness, the authors write. That, in turn, benefits both workers and companies. “If we focus on how, at the micro level, we can restore a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

in studying these complex social systems. I have made a deliberate choice to focus primarily on research that reflects firsthand experience with boards rather than on research that utilizes data derived from questionnaires and other... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

with the management team at the time, to scale back all of those businesses, focus on the diamond in the rough that we had within our midst, the Dunkin’ Donuts business, polish that up, standardize the... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

wish to make headway should consider 3 broad ways of dealing with distance: adapt, overcome it, and exploit it. "What is different about this book on global strategy is its focus on the differences across countries," he writes.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

CLIMB (Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business) program. The yearlong, comprehensive offering for both new and experienced business leaders combines courses on leadership, strategy, and finance with shorter courses in areas such as dynamic View Details

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

counter-intuitive such as a focus on individual achievement." The Courage To Be Bad At the core of Frei's philosophy is an appeal that Harvard MBAs are not used to hearing: in order to achieve excellence, you need the courage to be... View Details