Team Process - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

"innovation is everyone's job." Dozens of faculty at Harvard Business School are focused on the subject of managing innovation. Some look at it by examining processes while others view through the lens of history. For example, Clay... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

Profile

Jonathan Arena

"It definitely started in kindergarten," Jonathan Arena says, about his interest in art. "I attended a Waldorf School that believed in immersing children in creativity, rather than in the industrial processes of most public... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

trenches. “The creative work is always challenging and fun, but I had become frustrated by how onerous, expensive, and slow it was to do a good job of checking the availability of new names and brands,” she says. “The whole process needed... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

paper, "Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization," written by Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Adam M. Kleinbaum, and professors Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman. In an unnamed company with over 100,000 employees, the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

implemented a tried and tested tool to help contain infectious disease: human-led contact tracing, the process of tracking down and notifying individuals who have been exposed to the illness. Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) used... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

20 Aug 2014
News

With No Time to Lose

into ALS research, and removed some critical barriers to the development of treatments. “Our focus, from the start, was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS,” says Kremer, who was diagnosed with the disease in 2004, just weeks into his first year at HBS. “We... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

Massachusetts General Hospital's efforts to restructure quality and safety to illustrate the value of beginning with a focus on organizational culture, using a systematic process of engaging clinical leadership, developing an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 May 2021
What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

made it clear that “we believe broad participation and trust in the election process are vital to its integrity.” Some of the signatories were recruited in a Zoom meeting of more than 100 CEOs organized by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

challenging assignments, adequate resources, supportive work groups, management that places a premium on creativity, and project leaders who understand the creative process and have strong communications skills. At the other end of the... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

and a team of investors bought the shuttered plant and got it up and running again. Adopting a local word for "genesis," Okoloko would call his new company Notore Chemical Industries Ltd. Looking for professional managers two years later,... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

the media vertical) more profitable. A May 2011 investment memo [cowritten with former colleagues Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) and David Cowan (MBA 1992)] had this to say: Peter and his team were “pioneering the use of machine learning and... View Details

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

execute this study? How did you choose Maverick as a research site? Was the company open to this kind of study? Sandra Cha and Amy Edmondson: Hypocrisy was not at all on our minds when we started the research. Our initial interest in this company was View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

the selling process moves on. Several years and band-aids later, managers may realize that their channels serve neither their customers nor their channel partners well, but it is too late. Q: What are channel stewards and what role would... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

stop for a drink, eager to reward business initiative. What's missing in Europe are the incentives and the network.— Enrico Bastianelli,ProSkelia Pharmaceuticals Expanding on that theme, Ted Llana, vice president of Global Commercial Strategy for Biogen Idec, recalled... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Keeping that support... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2011
News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

areas: leadership, globalization, and integration based on experiential learning. A ten-member faculty team has been named to design and deliver the course, but one feature is clear from the outset: To better prepare leaders for a global... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

levels of interest—founders in the early stages, joiners seeking practice in the field, or those debating if the entrepreneurial path is right for them. Teams of three to four students are matched after acceptance into the program, and... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

Publisher's Abstract Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard and provided an actionable, eight-step View Details