Team Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Mar 2018

HBS Women's Open House

Jointly sponsored by HBS MBA Admissions and the Women’s Student Association, this Open House is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about the MBA program and the community of women at Harvard Business School. Planned... View Details

15 Oct 2020

External Partner Event: Virtual Forté MBA Forum Central US Event #2

Join Harvard Business School as we take part in Forte MBA Forums. These free events are designed for all women considering an MBA — no matter where you are in your professional journey. The Forté events will introduce you to admissions... View Details

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Structuring Consulting Firms

By: Tim Morris, Heidi K. Gardner and N. Anand

This chapter presents a model of the way in which consulting and other professional-service firms organize themselves and grow. We will argue that the fundamental structural-design challenge for consulting firms, like other professional firms, is to adapt appropriately... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Service Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Projects; Groups and Teams; Consulting Industry; Service Industry

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01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium

that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details

24 Mar 2017
News

Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

allows businesses to design and order industrial equipment online. Alumnus: Etienne Lacroix, MBA 2011 Region: Canada These teams will make their final pitches to a panel of judges on April 25 and a winner... View Details

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Neil Band | MBA

track in tech entrepreneurship. Tech areas of interest: I’m fascinated by the application of machine learning, distributed systems, and cryptography to economics and biology. I currently research memory optimization in deep neural network training, and reinforcement... View Details

September 1984 (Revised September 1993)
Case

Nestle S.A.: International Marketing (A)

By: John A. Quelch

A senior manager at Nestle's headquarters is reviewing the role of the central marketing staff with respect to Nestle's operating companies around the world. Two specific examples of the role of the central staff in guiding the advertising and packaging decisions of... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Marketing; Operations; Advertising; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Switzerland

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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - Site Credits

NaDaizja Bolling BAKER LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Laura Linard Rachel Wise Melissa Banta Melissa Murphy Sarah D. Westwood CONSERVATION TEAM Debra Cuoco Candace Kang Lisa Clark EDITING Julia Collins Sarah D. Westwood CATALOG View Details

24 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Working to Keep Pirates At-Bay: My Summer in Cyber Security

ten weeks in the company, I was able to design an online marketing strategy and create acquisition funnel metrics to test different campaigns and selling pitches to brokers. I was also able to work closely with the product View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

organizational design choices favor scaling? What are the trade-offs between autonomy and control? Senior Team : When should a venture replace its founder with a “professional” CEO? At what point should you... View Details

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The Female Executive's Perspective: A conversation with HBS AMP Women on Applying

Stepping away from responsibilities in the office and at home for the multi-week HBS Advanced Management Program (AMP) is a major decision. Women executives in particular wonder, "Can I really leave my family and my team for that long?"... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop

NVC 20: This year marked the 20th anniversary of the New Venture Competition, which began in 1997 as the HBS Business Plan Contest. (photo by Susan Young) After surviving among a pool of 171 alumni teams from 14 different regions, four... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

(GFS), designed for Google web searches. One team, called Big Table, argued for adding systems on top of GFS; the other team, called Build from Scratch, wanted to replace GFS entirely. Coughran decided to give the two View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

competitive landscape, Cineplanet, the leading movie cinema chain in Peru, hired a team of IDEO designers to reinvent the movie-going experience for Peruvians. Cineplanet’s management View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Sep 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

previously been employed, was now the director of the newly-formed Airbel Innovation Center, an internal team focused on bringing human centered design and innovation to the humanitarian space. With the help... View Details

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Site Credits - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

Collections Site Credits Site Credits Content : Melissa Banta, Rachel Wise Editing : Julia Collins, Katherine Fox Web Design and Production : Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design Web Project View Details

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Monica Chang | MBA

and business: As a Project Manager for Harvard Tech for Social Good last spring, I led a team of engineers and designers that worked with an experienced civic technologist to create a web app comparing the... View Details

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Inessa Lurye

MBA/MPP degree at HBS and Harvard Kennedy School, Inessa helped expand the reach of the HBS Design Club, and fulfilled a field project at Harvard Art Museums that developed art workshops designed around... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

travel stores to help the airline enhance customer satisfaction—provided insight on Mexico’s travel industry and, equally important, a new perspective on teamwork. “There were no designated leaders in the View Details

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The Experience | Information Technology

The Experience A seamless experience for highly engaged online learning Designed to recreate the look and feel of Harvard Business School’s world-renowned instructional spaces, HBS Live Online Classrooms feature 96 high-definition screens... View Details

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