Team Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app designed to help consumers make more climate-friendly purchasing decisions by... View Details

30 Oct 2017
Blog Post

How My Engineering and Manufacturing Background Prepared Me for an MBA

I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 and started working in a chemical manufacturing plant that same year. On my first day on the job, with limited technical competence and organizational awareness, I was assigned to supervise a View Details

14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

to government estimates. And, in 2020, 3,142 people were killed in car crashes involving distracted drivers. With automation gaining more momentum, Sadun hopes car designers will double down on safety features. After all, commuters may... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to efficient and effective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

experimentation is vital to finding product-market fit, and how to raise venture capital successfully. This course features access to an AI course assistant bot, in beta release, to facilitate your successful completion of the course. 5-6 hrs Module 1 View Details

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

another manager's star employee most likely wants to transfer into their departments. 2. Design work with variety and autonomy. Jobs that provide variety and the freedom to make decisions and mistakes engender extensive loyalty, the... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

08 Mar 2021
Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

and work with my team to help where we can. I have tried to stay motivated and to be thankful, even when things did not look so bright. I must confess that last year I felt all sort of emotions: I was scared, nervous, worried and even... View Details

24 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors

harder.’” People respond more when identities are mentioned The researchers conducted three experiments designed to examine whether “help-seekers” should call attention to their identities. In the first, the researchers sent about 2,500... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

instructor returned to the room. Only 30 percent of the kids could hold out. But instead of measuring wait time, the team measured the ability of children to complete actual work tasks—folding paper per instructions—at an Italian summer... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Entrepreneurial Finance (Q2) (also listed under Finance) Shai Bernstein Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Mark Roberge Lou Shipley Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Mark Roberge Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and... View Details

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

FabioFilzi Key aspects of corporate sponsorship programs, while designed to advance women’s careers, may end up widening the gender gap rather than narrowing it, according to new experimental research. “We’re not trying to say that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Feb 2020
News

Task Force

settling on merchandising—a $40 billion pain point for brands selling into the Latin American market. A finalist in the alumni track of last spring’s New Venture Competition, Zubale (the name, roughly translated from Spanish, means “rise up”) now has a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

efforts to increase opportunities for Black students and participants in all of our educational programs. In our MBA Program , the Admissions & Financial Aid team is reinforcing and extending efforts to reach the full range of human... View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

an organization that uses engineering and design to improve people’s experiences with the health care system. The intersection of health care and tech is such a powerful space. I took STRATTECH to build fluency in the broader tech... View Details

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

27 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 27

had undertaken to impact three of the world's most urgent challenges-nutrition, water, and rural development-and Jöhr's team was fundamental to each of these pillars. Yet the forces changing the global food system were formidable:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

work on what they've told you." Not sure the assessment is accurate? Call a few close friends or loved ones and see what they think. Most likely, Kaplan says, they'll agree with your subordinates. "Leadership is a team... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

As the COVID-19 virus pandemic began to sweep across the world, Doug McMillon and his team at Walmart watched in horror. Suddenly, they realized, tomorrow would be nothing like “business as usual” and everything in the company’s marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Power and Influence for Positive Impact. Participants will either be evaluated as complete or not complete. What is the Influence Style Exercise? + – The Influence Style Exercise (ISE) is a 20-30-minute self-assessment designed to help... View Details

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

learned that its 20 percent interest rate was higher than average and that the card didn’t provide travel insurance. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/prRmhGSXiSbMwOabP4CL][/div] After qualified customers activated their credit cards, Buell’s View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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