Team Building - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

processes may be used in other industries as well, Luo says. In a typical corporation, for example, a product management team of maybe two or three people makes the final decision about what products to invest in—but dozens of people in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

09 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Management division. His second-year elective course, Founder's Dilemmas, was a building block for the book. Last spring, HBS offered four sections of the course to 272 students; it was so popular that another 170 students were... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

05 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

improvement. Through this collaborative process, the less experienced contributor gains a deeper understanding of the system’s structure and functions. Building on existing literature that has shown the value of learning by doing, Nagle... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

01 Jun 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

aspect of the logistics chain,” she explains. “If your port is inefficient, you’re losing a lot of value.” As she completes her first year at FEDA, Ngoyi acknowledges the work yet to be done in building confidence in African markets, as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

generated an operational loss. "My feedback was, 'You're in trouble,'" recalls Kahn. By the spring, Kahn was in Mumbai, part of a team tasked with turning Agrovet around—the first foreigner the Godrej Group had ever hired in a leadership... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

25 Feb 2020
News

Task Force

world following China’s path. “It was an incredibly powerful wave that I wanted to ride—to build a digital business that would help people in emerging markets use their smartphones to connect to markets and improve their quality of life,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

certain clinical areas to understand better how failures occurred, thereby proactively improving medical safety. One clinical group developed something they called a "Good Catch Log" to record information that might be useful in better understanding and... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

Anand was instated as chief diversity officer for Sodexo, North America. Anand and Landel worked with several executives to develop and implement systems that were conducive to a diversity strategy. The team started to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

treats market share as the result of building better cars more cheaply than its competitors, and not as an objective in and of itself. Its globalization has actually been driven by a complex array of coordination mechanisms across... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

leader needs to master the use of inquiry and reflection as well as advocacy in order to build his or her organization and career." Have You Developed A Clear Vision And Key Priorities For Your Enterprise? "When I see a problem... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

of their teams ” David Wittenberg would have YouTube look to its users for a solution to the dilemma. As he put it, ‘My preferred solution errs on the side of personal liberty and adds the element of information. I'd institute a rating... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

01 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

believe that they are more than money-making machines: they are a vehicle for advancing societal goals. They deliver more than just financial returns; they also build enduring institutions. At great companies researched for this article,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

job description. There can't be sustainability teams that are physically big enough. They have to include everybody on this planet working together to address the issues that we're facing.” Continually build... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Welcome to the Future

Batten Hall, on Western Avenue, is the totally renovated and redesigned building formerly occupied by the PBS television station WGBH. Batten Hall’s top two floors, reserved for HBS, are devoted to 10 curved, modular learning spaces... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

innovation, which is our field of specialty, proved a great way to help us do just that." Christensen, Horn, and Johnson recently teamed up via e-mail to answer a few questions from HBS Working Knowledge on the best paths to better... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at the College of the Holy Cross, who is Coffman’s mother.... View Details