Leading Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how members of newly formed View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 1995
Case

Ernst & Young United Kingdom (B)

By: John J. Gabarro and Samantha Graff

Discusses progress made by mid-1995 on the three challenges identified by the change leadership at the end of 1993. First, it describes the decision-making process that resulted in a general consensus to reorganize the huge London office, and it highlights certain... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Problems and Challenges; Decision Making; Adaptation; Perspective; United Kingdom; London

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Educators

Purchase

01 Oct 1998
News

Playing to Win

No less intense was the off-field rivalry between the world's leading athletic equipment companies. With their dueling events, giveaways, and advertising - and through the on-field heroics of the teams and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

employees believe it’s too risky to speak up, many decide it’s safer to put their heads down and keep their opinions to themselves—but that muting of views creates barriers to learning and collaboration that can be detrimental to both View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

Melody Koh

Apron as the first product hire when the company was 18 months old with 20 HQ employees. She helped scale the business through hyper-growth (25x in 3.5 years) and to its IPO, building and leading a 35-person View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

Profile

Avi Kremer

could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure the disease’s progression rate, and dozens of View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Entrepreneurship

Fast Answer

Sustainability in Energy Industry

Planning for tomorrow’s energy transitions today. Top 5 Growth Opportunities in the Energy and Environment Industry for 2021 Frost & Sullivan’s team of industry experts have compiled an 8-pages complimentary insight on the... View Details

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Prizes & Benefits | New Venture Competition

& Executive Summary synopsis and for semi-finalists and finalist teams the opportunity to present. Feedback from expert judges at multiple stages in the process to help strengthen and develop ideas within the competition and beyond. Past... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Takes One to Know One

School has raised close to $900 million and energized alumni at 22 Campaign events worldwide. Publicly launched in April 2014, The Campaign is part of The Harvard Campaign, which concludes in 2018. “The HBS community is nothing short of remarkable,” says Cahill, “and I... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Turning Point: The Dark Season

eventually found my way. By the time I was done, some of the players—who had also faced adversity—were in tears. Two months later I was named team chaplain. + SKYDECK web-only content Wilkins describes what it’s like to View Details

Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)

February 2010
Teaching Note

The Cleveland Clinic: Growth Strategy 2008 (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg, Jennifer F Baron and Carolyn Daly

Teaching Note for 709473. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Value; Restructuring; Groups and Teams; System; Transformation; Expansion; Integration; Alignment; Goals and Objectives; Leading Change; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; Cleveland; United States; Abu Dhabi; Canada

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Purchase

01 Dec 2008
News

Faculty Research Online

ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin Roth studied the... View Details

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Tulsi Patel | MBA

Professional goals: I'm interested in leading cross-functional teams at the intersection of business strategy, engineering, and UX design to build technology and software products that drive positive social... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

not be showing that stuff in the hallways. Collaboration is much too threatening for most people.” But if she has her way, collaboration will be a hallmark not just of Old Navy but of the entire Gap enterprise. Paul S. Pressler, Gap’s president and CEO, wants her to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

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Astghik Poladyan

imagined I would find another passion in my life as fulfilling as music. Yet leading teams and bringing people together to achieve excellence energizes and moves me now in the same way playing the piano... View Details

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Kittyhawk team had to weigh its market options: Sell the disk drive to DMD's existing customers, who were manufacturing increasingly portable computing devices, or explore emerging opportunities elsewhere. A View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this culture? Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, describes five necessary steps View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

McKenna to lead the organization through the turmoil and out the other side. As she and her new executive team assemble in the DC office, touring the space that has been renovated and expanded for their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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Virtual Campus Tour | MBA

Spangler Center Food Court. Open to the public, the Food Court serves as the School's primary dining facility and leads directly into the main dining room. Spangler Center Dining Room Spangler Center Courtyard. During warmer months,... View Details

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