Group Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

president of strategy and new business development for books and entertainment retailer Borders Group (Ann Arbor, Mich.). "There's not as much slack as there once was." "Slack" in the supply chain refers primarily to... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

motivations, interests and skills as well as frameworks for evaluating specific board opportunities. OnBoard LinkedIn group For alumni to connect with each other, share resources and board opportunities. OnBoard Virtual Session Recordings... View Details

17 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

organization trains and mentors leaders, how can it retain them? Talented employees thirst for challenging assignments, and they need to be listened to, says Sasser. "If you invest in these people, you must give them significant work. In a top management View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

collaborating is small, we find that random colocation significantly increases the likelihood of pair-level co-application by almost 70%. The effect of exogenous colocation on subsequent collaboration was greater for previous coauthors,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

relationships tend to be lacking. Perhaps the most troubling finding in our research was that only 35 percent of applicants report working directly with employers. The most effective programs in the social science literature feature... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

effective solution for companies. She co-wrote the journal article with HBS doctoral student Grace Cormier, as well as three employees of Happify, Allison L. Williams, Acacia C. Parks, and Julia Stafford. Happify, which funded the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

on the way in which that information is presented. Rankings have no effect on application decisions when colleges are listed alphabetically, even when readers are provided data on college quality and the methodology used to calculate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

point, he cites the popular example of an audience of leaders asked to focus on counting the number of times that a ball is passed among a group of people being shown on film. In the middle of one version of the film, a woman with an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

and firms compete to craft successful business strategies. 8 weeks 6-8 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key... View Details

10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

Owner/President Management Program, with plenty of lessons about branding and competitive strategy. Two Paths In Branding Yoga, cowritten with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and research associate Annelena Lobb,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

30 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?

good corporate citizen, often through group activities away from the job. In short, employee pride can serve an organization in many ways—until it doesn’t. That’s the point at which arrogance among proud employees begins to get in the way... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

July – August 2011
Article

Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units

By: I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker

Dynamic service settings-characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)-play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Performance Improvement; Quality; Groups and Teams; Cooperation; Health Industry

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Establish the enduring structures required for the journey ahead. - Advancing Racial Equity

member with a faculty member in a corresponding Senior Associate Dean role, has proven very effective at HBS. A key undertaking of the pair will be to work with experts in organization change processes and build on best practices and... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

My First Job

Thomas (MBA 2003) Grace Under Fire I was a server for the catering service on my college campus. Working at the banquets hosted by the university president was my favorite because sometimes it meant seeing famous people. One time Stephen Covey (MBA 1957), author of The... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

these skills workshops to see if eventually there’s enough there to transition it into the official coursework. The club has been able to nimbly work with similar tech clubs across all the Harvard schools and other schools like MIT. The wealth of differently formatted... View Details

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

be able to coordinate their actions when messages' arrivals at their destinations are sufficiently correlated events. Correlation serves to fill in information gaps that arise when players are uncertain of the source of message failure, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

periodically raises concerns about audit-industry concentration and suggests ways to boost growth of smaller firms. The consolidation raises the issue of how the surviving big auditors and the nation's accounting regulators will manage their relationship and what the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

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

theatrical demonstration—the pacing and dramatic effect of which had been well-rehearsed—the soon-to-be-famous inventor, then 37 years old, sat for his portrait in front of a large motorized view camera. With a turn of a knob, Land pulled... View Details

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History - Entrepreneurship

50-year career as one of the world's most effective and influential venture capitalists, he helped seed the success of economic powerhouses such as Teledyne, Intel, and Apple Computer. And in 2003, through an unprecedented gift, he... View Details

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