Team Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

to the aviation reward, the X PRIZE Foundation is offering similar carrots for breakthroughs in sequencing the human genome, designing fuel-efficient cars, and even reaching the moon. And the US government is experimenting with prizes as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a two-week, capstone project for which students worked directly with clients on a real-world, high-impact issue. We connected with some of the boot... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Aug 2024
HBS Case

How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture

proprietary at all in a competitive space with razor-thin margins, and yet he made it work.” ‘People need this’ Like many other social entrepreneurs, Domingues’ road to success was not easy. He took a winding path from playing wing for a minor league hockey View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Information Technology

03 Dec 2019
News

Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring

alumni team up with students in Singaporean professional schools and universities for the club's 2019 Mentorship Program kick-off event. HBS alumni team up with students in Singaporean professional schools... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

that point,” he emphasizes. The switch to skills-based hiring has helped diversify Ovia’s workforce. The leadership team is 60 percent non-white and 80 percent women, as is the staff, which Wallace describes as mission-critical. He... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

transformation" of large firms. What are some of the challenges you've faced, he asked the panelists, as you've tried to start new ventures inside of companies? The biggest challenge, said Dipender Saluja, who leads a thousand-person technical services venture... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author... View Details

05 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

20 student and alumni finalist teams pitched for a share of the $315,000 in cash as well as in-kind prizes. The top four teams in each of the three tracks—Student Business, Student Social Enterprise, and... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Baker’s back

School’s Department of Operations, several internal HBS committees, and teams of outside experts. “One of the things we did really well was hire the right people,” says Frank Hayes (PMD 75, 2000), who oversaw the project for Operations.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

designing and managing an operations organization. The best way to do something depends critically on the characteristics and capabilities of your organization and the competitive context in which it finds itself. That is, lean... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

as website design choices. As spring turned to summer, FinGig was attracting dozens of new clients per day that were relying on the volunteer team for assistance with their federal aid applications. In... View Details

13 Feb 2014
Blog Post

We pulled it off: The Inaugural LGBTQ Conference at Harvard

participants who joined us from all around the world, the many sponsors who believed and shared in our vision, our incredibly inspiring speakers and panelists, the team from Altitude Inc. who designed and... View Details

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

12, bought his first sailboat with money saved from collecting and recycling his neighbors’ newspapers. Although he dreamed of being a marine biologist, Frey’s academic passion was engineering, which sprang from working in a machine shop at age 11. As a teen, he began... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2013
News

Minding The Gap

Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

demonstrates that SFP always enables truth to speak to power safely, and in a majority of cases enables senior teams to transform silent barriers into strengths, realign their organization's design and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog

When to innovate Class 1: The power of strategic imitation Class 2: Dominant design and 2 nd mover advantages Class 3: First mover advantage Class 4: Exercise on crafting your vision for innovation by asking the right questions Module 2:... View Details

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

moment that launches a powerful idea or brilliant product. Managers can use these insights to form teams that create better ideas. “Much of innovation is premised on the idea that you should talk to other people to generate ideas,” says... View Details