Team Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2015
News

Lovepop Woos The Sharks

Between two matching bids, the Boston-based company—which creates cards that open to reveal intricately designed 3D structures—chose Shark Kevin O’Leary’s $300,000 offer for 15% of the company. We talked to Rose about pitching the Sharks,... View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Data-Driven Diligence

same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

10 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

AI can help you become a better writer, coder, and researcher. But can the powerful technology boost business acumen and economic performance? Sort of, says a recent study. An experimental artificial intelligence (AI) mentor designed to... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

Profile

Anddria Clack

variety of industries. How has your overall Harvard Business School experience shaped your goals & career path? All of the resources at Harvard Business School are designed to help you make more informed and thoughtful decisions about... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Other Financial Services

15 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

innovation teams under too much bureaucracy, treating the innovators as more valued corporate citizens than those who work in the current business, and hiring leaders who don't have the relationship and communications skills necessary to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
News

Quantum Leap

thousands of years to compute. More important, the quantum revolution would give us the ability to solve a whole class of problems that digital computers could never touch. In the quest to help us get there, Aliro offers two tools, both in beta for now. The first,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2017
News

Global Perspectives

Lecturer John Macomber. Macomber, who spent three decades in the real estate and construction business prior to joining HBS in 2007, is committed to making real progress on some of the problems that face African nations. He designed an... View Details

18 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Exploring the Tech World Through WesTrek

chats, and social events. When I first heard about WesTrek, I immediately knew I had to attend. It would also be a fantastic way for me to determine whether I could really picture myself moving there this summer, so I secured myself a spot on the trek by joining the... View Details

Blog

Lessons from Jazz in the Live Online Classroom

designed to make virtual participants feel like they are in a real HBS classroom, thanks to a wall of life-sized screens, personal cameras for each screen, a team of off-camera engineers—and for this special... View Details

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

from a Field Experiment, authored by Harvard Business School marketing professors Doug J. Chung and Das Narayandas. “With so many people and resources at stake, the design of the sales force compensation plan becomes of great strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could cost a company many other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

find that while a coordination system—the relevant processes, roles and responsibilities, and structure—can be designed to address existing individual and functional biases in the organization; the new coordination system will in turn... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets

a forum designed specifically for academics and archivists. Prof. Jones kicked off the session with a discussion of business history at HBS and the popularity of the School’s history elective courses, Creating Modern Capitalism and... View Details

Web

Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The award is designed to bridge the gap between the recipient’s salary and $130,000. For example, if the recipient’s salary is $95,000, the Fellowship may be up to $35,000 (all figures are in US dollars). Application deadline: April 1 at... View Details

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

simply could not be done. Through innovative design and technology, Negroponte and his team proved them wrong but struggled to sell the concept and the machines to the world's education ministries, who would... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

Great Performances, J. Richard Hackman uses examples ranging from orchestras to airline cockpit crews to prove that it's not a leader's management style that determines performance, but how well a leader designs and supports a View Details

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

destination in advance. Whether you're designing a new product, running a business in volatile conditions, operating a process that might encounter unforeseen inputs, or just trying to figure out what to do with your life, the journey... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

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

17 Sep 2020
Blog Post

HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic

just returned to the U.S. after a gap between his two years at HBS, during which he launched an e-commerce startup in Indonesia. He made the decision to sell his startup, switching his focus to working on impact-only projects like humanID, an anonymous Single Sign On... View Details

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details

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