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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
large should initial innovation teams be? (Just a few people, but include seasoned members.) Should new projects be kept close to the core organization or set up shop on the periphery? (Depends if the innovation builds on core products or... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
intimidating aura. "On a dreary January day, we drove over the border," he recalls. "The East German countryside, still under communist rule, bristled with barbed wire and watchtowers." But Hughes's initial assessment of the factory's potential was right on the money.... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
“I’ve also observed interesting team dynamics on these adventures. “There is a big difference between the team that celebrates making it to the summit and the same View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
make sense of family-business dynamics. The School has made further strides in the past six years with courses, cases, and conferences designed to explore the frustrating yet fascinating dynamics that make family businesses among the most... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
innovation leaders’ trajectories from heading up a new team and generating first results to navigating the inevitable crosswinds, complications, and conflicts—and ultimately delivering success. Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
of finding a cultural fit, and to the team dynamics of effective corporate oversight. READ MORE [MUSIC] Julia Hanna: When it came out in 1980, the comedy 9 to 5 played up the growing role of women in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
wide range of experiences, opinions, and practical knowledge about cultivating leadership, entrepreneurship, and empowerment. Six panel discussions presented on the second day of the gathering stimulated dynamic conversation about career... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s most View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he and his View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
travel stores to help the airline enhance customer satisfaction—provided insight on Mexico’s travel industry and, equally important, a new perspective on teamwork. “There were no designated leaders in the teams we were assigned to in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Amabile's classroom help him to walk the fine line between guiding his company's creative team down the path recommended by market research and stifling their creativity by giving too much direction. "What Professor Amabile's research... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Kraus, “that doesn’t look like her path.” Kraus has witnessed this dynamic as an entrepreneur. When she cofounded and served as CEO of Circles, a national corporate concierge, in 1997, there were even fewer women on the entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
with them to Soldiers Field. This makes the dynamics of any given case discussion quite remarkable. The faculty has changed a lot, too. It used to be that the large majority of new hires came through our doctoral programs. Today, we have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
in a kind of arms race to change that homogeneity within the companies, to better match the customer base, says HBS professor Frances Frei. That’s partly out of financial necessity. More diverse teams tend to produce products that appeal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
decisions? Pick great people. Who among your potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
the development via NASA to an era where industry leads has sped up the pace of growth and primed the space sector for investment. Co-founder of space technology company Escape Dynamics and a longtime investor in the industry, Garriott de... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
audiences. “We knew we wanted to bring the distinctive features of the HBS classroom — real-world cases and problem solving, active learning, and peer engagement — online,” says Professor Bharat Anand, a member of the initial development View Details