Team Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
News

Elevator Pitch: Banking On It

cumbersome procedures and outdated systems. By providing low- and no-code tools, Fuse hopes to empower business teams by expediting the origination process while fostering innovation and adaptability. Heard:... View Details

Keywords: fintech; finance; entrepreneurship; Finance

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

terms of responding to potential threats, Microsoft consistently plays to its strengths—its overall platform strategy, its existing knowledge base, and its process of componentization. For example, when developing the new Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

disciplines most often found in business schools. We have proposed that innovation in organizations be conceived of as a process of co-design: creative abrasion, creative agility, and integrated problem solving. We know much about the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Jun 2023
News

Buy Big, Sell Small

to classmates who had experience creating products or processes from ground zero and was inspired by cases about entrepreneurs whose creative concepts have benefited the world. “HBS pushes you to be ambitious but also clear headed,” she... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

Through what at the time felt like sheer luck, I landed an internship at Procter & Gamble on the Dish Engineering team between my sophomore and junior year. That internship taught me a lot about what a “corporate job” in the Consumer... View Details

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

group dynamics and improve team performance through tools and processes designed to enhance collaboration and iteration in development Guide teams to draw from a wide range of... View Details

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

in business communications. "You'll burn out, your team will resent you, your reputation will suffer, and the work probably won't all get done anyway." Conversely, if you offer resistance to new duties when the company is down,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

guide posts along the entrepreneurship trail – or even few trails to follow. There are, however, process steps that can help would-be entrepreneurs create their own map for the terrain ahead. By taking the following steps, you can blaze... View Details

04 Sep 2019
Blog Post

A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship

process better.” Yet the possibilities for state-of-the-art enterprise B2B software utilizing SaaS business models inspired him to seek more. Going to HBS, with its start-up support system, would give Stan, “a guided experience into the... View Details

24 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 24

resistance to their lobbying activities from the general public. These areas are known as "thin political markets" to distinguish them from more vibrant and competitive "thick" political processes (e.g., healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

evolution of the process as brilliantly envisioned and developed by Edwin Land and his dedicated project team. It required successful outcomes in a number of arenas, all of which would need to coalesce into an interrelated, sequentially... View Details

18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

VP of NFL International, must propose a course of action that the London-based team can both execute and that will receive the approval of the NFL's commissioner and owners. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

top assume otherwise. “Having communication that goes bottom-up is just as important as having communication that goes top-down.” "In many cases you have an executive team that's so sure about company strategy, but then you go inside the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

August 2014
Case

Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)

By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats

Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details

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19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix

to start could be paralyzing. Can you talk about a company that's gone through that part of that process and had success? What does that look like in practice? AM: Yeah. I’ll give you an example from the height of the pandemic. This was a... View Details

March 2000 (Revised November 2000)
Case

IBM Corporation Turnaround

By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan

Describes the details of IBM's dramatic corporate turnaround in the early 1990s led by CEO Louis V. Gerstner. Accounts of events are from interviews with IBM executives. Covers the factors that led to the company's decline and actions taken to recover. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Restructuring; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

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04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

lose $1.4 billion in value under Quaker's stewardship in just four years? How did Triarc restore most of that value in less than three years? What did Triarc do with such apparently effortless grace that Quaker, with all its resources, could not? Brands thrive when... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

investors as well as trustees of leading nonprofits had expressed uncertainty about whether MRIs were compatible with a board’s fiduciary duties. Darren wondered if his board held the same view. This case will explore the process and... View Details

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

importance of processing one’s crucibles: people need not feel like victims or stuff their experiences deep inside themselves. Rather, by understanding themselves and reframing their experiences, they can find the pearl inside that... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

maps; synthetic controls) Visualizations Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Natural Language Processing State-of-the-art data retrieval (e.g., Twitter data, Google news posts, location data) Optical Character Recognition (OCR;... View Details

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