Team Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Nov 2023
Blog Post

College Students, Take a Sneak Peek at the HBS MBA

under the guidance of HBS faculty members during our case method sessions. Learn more about Peek and the registration process here or read our FAQs below. What is the mission of Peek? Peek is intended as an introduction to the MBA... View Details

09 Jan 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte

The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

Although adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for the enterprise is still in the early days, the technology has matured enough for entrepreneurs to start gathering inspiration and evaluating opportunities for potential applications. Every... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

corrective action. Is there any way to find out earlier whether you're on the right track? There is indeed. The trick, we believe, is to periodically assess the decision-making process, even as it is under way. Scholars now have considerable evidence showing that a... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

consultants to live anywhere have been effective ways of recruiting talent. However, while these people may live anywhere, they carry out most of their work in teams on the road. My concern is the impact on an organization's culture that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

merger, given the cultural issues it creates. So, why are people not just getting valuation wrong in this setting but getting it wrong systematically? The book lays out the information and incentive issues that go wrong in these settings—deal View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

one ultimate leader of the family business system or a team of leaders?" Unitary Leadership Vs. Leadership Teams There are two basic models. A family business system can either consolidate leadership with... View Details

10 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Combining an Interest in Music and Business

far are amazing (and incredibly fun), the team is great, and I am working in an industry that I love. I still don’t know what I want to do for the rest of my life or how to find the perfect balance between my musicianship and my... View Details

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

witnessing firms developing and experimenting with much more radical risk-mitigating technologies. These include developing new products and processes that mitigate contagion risk. For example, in China, robots have been designed to... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

14 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer

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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

project-oriented course in which advanced students from graduate schools across Harvard University work together in teams to design real-world practical tools for advancing climate change goals. Spring Course. Learn more here . MIT... View Details

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

The voluntary carbon market can be an effective market mechanism to channel climate financing to some of the poorest regions of the world and provide a viable mean to accelerate climate actions. However, access to the carbon market is not at all equitable now – the... View Details

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

personnel who had no previous experience with measuring costs at all. Working with local administrators, the team designed a simple procedure for collecting data on patient care. As the case explains: “The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

where to do so, a nitty-gritty view of the process outsiders aren’t always privy to. Lomtadze and the students debated if Kaspi.kz was still a bank, with the majority deciding—as Lomtadze did—that the company was now a technology... View Details

01 Aug 2001
News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

investment banking," observes Fisher. "It takes a great team of people working together to do the job well. I've always enjoyed being a part of that process and seeing it unfold." View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

Colgate. Policy Bundling to Overcome Risk Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

“The course is a laboratory for us to innovate,” Perlow observes. “It is constantly evolving, like life itself.” She adds that even its design was novel compared to the traditional, multistep process of developing new courses at HBS. In... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Land with his self-portrait heralded the new photographic process around the country: "Single Step Completes All Processing While Photographer Remains at the Scene"; "Camera with One-Minute Print Heralds New... View Details

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

necessary? How could he keep people engaged as the nature of the work evolved in some instances to become more predictable? What new systems and processes were needed to ensure a steady output of high quality work? Lebowitz was proud that... View Details