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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. 2014 Working Paper Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih Scientific... View Details
  • September–October 2024
  • Article

The Art of Leading Teammates

By: Tom Brady and Nitin Nohria
When our society talks about leaders, we focus on formal roles, such as the CEO. This view undervalues the role of informal leaders—team members who influence outcomes by the tone they set, how they conduct themselves, and how they interact with their peers. Their job... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Leadership; Status and Position
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  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

come first. The authors have identified six common barriers to change: (1) unclear direction on strategy and values, which often leads to conflicting priorities; (2) senior executives who don't work as a team and haven't committed to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

the table in their insurance-plan choices, sometimes thousands of dollars. This is true both when consumers make active choices (e.g., they do not have a default plan) and when they make passive choices (e.g., they have a default plan). We discuss the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

  Working PapersNone available this week   Cases & Course MaterialsAnalyzing Work Groups Harvard Business School Note 407-032 Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

these connections at a more intimate level: Join one of the entrepreneurship and industry-focused student clubs. Join the Entrepreneurship Forum, a group of 8–10 RC students for bi-weekly sessions focused on feedback and support. Register... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

some estimates, with players such as Bumble, Tinder, and OKCupid vying to help people find love. While McFowland is not a dating expert, his work in machine learning and social sciences examines the efficacy of how people interact in... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • January 2002 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Chapter Enrichment Program Teams at the American Red Cross (A)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Anita Williams Woolley
The American Red Cross has a system for structuring, staffing, and leading teams to review its local chapters. Mirroring professional services firms that use teams to serve clients, this system provides detailed guidelines to increase individual team member's... View Details
Keywords: Planning; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Leadership; Organizational Structure
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  • Spring 2020
  • Article

Establishing High Performing Teams: Lessons from Health Care

By: Michael Anne Kyle, Emma-Louise Aveling and Sara J. Singer
Effective teams can be significant drivers of innovations that enable broader quality improvements and efficiency gains across organizations. But despite the wealth of research and managerial expertise describing characteristics of effective teams, people and... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness
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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

That Was Then, This Is Now

leaping. And leaping. Video Embed Tony Deifell on the HBS Portrait Project. Jon Swan (MBA/MPP 2009) Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group I am going to rediscover the buffalo. As a young kid, an elder on my reservation... View Details
Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

employees and supporters in academia, industry, and civil society groups signed a petition calling Gebru’s “termination” an “act of retaliation” that “heralds danger for people working for ethical and just... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
  • 30 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

contribution to the team. However, when cognition-based trust is high, people start to believe that they can rely on their teammates to get work done, and actually stop working as hard. By differentiating... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations

By: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani
We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by... View Details
Keywords: Search Costs; Cost; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Science; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 13 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

minorities to majority populations, particularly historically disadvantaged minorities, there's also income gaps, but the wealth gap is just really huge.” What’s more, minority-owned private equity funds face a significantly higher bar for success than white-owned... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

about race aren’t getting lost as they work to make other groups feel like they belong. “It’s good that we’re recognizing more forms of diversity,” Roberts says. “But, it seems like we’re talking more... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2012
  • Article

Coming Through When It Matters Most

By: Heidi K. Gardner
All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms, I have... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Expectations; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Sharing
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; India
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  • 17 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)

Zoe Sun (MBA 2024) is a recent graduate from China. Prior to HBS, she worked at an Asia-focused private equity fund in Hong Kong. At HBS, she was Co-Chief Admissions Ambassador and Social Chair for Greater China Club. She is a recipient... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

and two or three adviser friends outside the organization you can trust. Your resignation should be rational, not emotional. What are the financial implications if you don’t have an immediate new job, and what benefits will you lose? Can you imagine View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 24 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

On Pride and Community

community that I would genuinely connect with. The previous PRIDE club leadership team had created a WhatsApp group for us to communicate in, and we organized a pizza night during the first week of class for “WTGNC” (the women, trans, and... View Details