Founding Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 May 2017
Blog Post

Changing How You Think at HBS

Video I wanted to go to business school as I hoped my roles would evolve from individual contributor, to team manager, to stakeholder with wider influence. I also wanted to explore different business areas besides investment banking and... View Details

03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

This curiosity needs to start with our existing team. Who is in our team and how can we map their skills to see the gaps? Then how can we approach the process of finding new people with a view of filling these gaps ?” NickC addressed the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

percent of board members are women. They teamed with Fletcher, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational behavior, to answer questions on gender, competition, and cooperation that have not been addressed in previous research: Do... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

brought home to many students that offshoring could affect them personally." Nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 participated in the exercise, with students divided into learning teams of five or six individuals. The exercise was... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

pledge of honesty is a way of effectively linking identity to morality." Testing Honesty The research team conducted a series of experiments in which participants could benefit financially from dishonest self-reporting. In each case, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

01 Jun 2016
News

Prima Datarina

with a long history in the airline and hotel industries now gaining traction in the arts world. By analyzing existing data, Hodges and her team have the flexibility to adjust ticket prices on a weekly, or even daily, basis to smooth the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at a Startup

around what the output is going to be is key to success for both the intern and for the company. The team at Mori has also found it important to be intentional about integrating interns into the company,... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Turning Point: In Good Company

the flexibility to work from home. I remember feeling that I didn’t belong at the reunion among classmates with more conventional (and much more successful) corporate careers. And then in 2018, I unexpectedly found what I was looking for... View Details

Keywords: bipolar disorder; mental health; wellness; HBS community

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

job was in grocery retail and I knew the food space was where I wanted to be long-term. Food forms such a foundational part of life and I immediately found it meaningful to be part of the industry providing for people’s basic needs.” What... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

For the Records

property, the Waterloo team found a suitable replacement five blocks away. If Qadri can help with the permitting, they have dreams of a record-bin bucket brigade, where Waterloo’s customers line the route to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Jeff Wilson; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2012
News

High Honors

graduated from Palo Alto High School and Stanford—but he helped shepherd in a new era. Considered one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, he founded Draper and Johnson in 1962 , with his friend Bill... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

04 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021

States. It was a year of painful yet important lessons that we will all take with us into 2021. What we have found at HBS, and in working closely with our partner organizations, is that through it all, communities consistently came... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2007
News

Learning to Lead

model that will predict how its competitors will react to changes in pricing. “I felt completely clueless,” he recalls in the case. The dynamics of the project team are equally demanding. Keller, who launched and ran a company in Cambodia... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management

27 Jan 2023
News

Turning Up the Volume

found to lead the organization, which helps high-achieving, diverse students from low-income backgrounds attend top colleges and universities across the country. Given the stakes of LEDA’s mission, Goldman realized stagnation was not an... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

University of Southern California, in a book called High Flyers, that I finally found a theory that could help people make better hiring decisions. To begin with, McCall has a very different view of the right stuff—and it explains why so... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

issue was widespread, Lerner and Holder founded OnRamp to help SaaS companies guide their customers through the implementation journey. Lerner refined the concept at HBS (and was a runner-up in the New Venture Competition) and has been... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It

lot of sacrifices for my career." Despite the glamour and mystique surrounding professional sports, he acknowledges that hockey was often a difficult way to make a living: Competition for spots on team rosters was fierce, and the play was... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton; hockey; education; family; career paths; personal priorities; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Mining

07 Aug 2019
News

“The Star of the North”

closely held businesses. And they want to grow them right where they are. The firm was founded by a group of 12 family business owners who were interested in creating a local ownership vehicle for retiring business owners. Generally,... View Details