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- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
teams to fluid groups engaged in what Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson, in the recent book Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, calls "teaming," defined as "coordination and mutual View Details
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by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA graduate could be successful...
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April White
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
returns? Or must we suffer more severe adjustments that will ultimately reduce the pie for managers, employees, customers, and investors alike? What do you think? Original Article The current highly charged atmosphere View Details
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by James Heskett
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
it sold as part of its service package, to help hospitals schedule similar procedures better, cutting down on lost time. Another successful example is GE, which has developed sensors for wind farms. Attached to turbine blades, the sensors...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
engineers, for example, brought in anthropologists to help them design copiers that were more user-friendly. And Genzyme leavened the impact of the lawyers on its regulatory team with a sprinkling of...
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by Laurie Joan Aron
- 21 Feb 2017
- News
Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor
IV, Wilson launched his 27,480-mile singlehanded trek from Les Sables d’Olonne on November 6, finishing with an elapsed time of 107 days 48 minutes 18 seconds, sailing at an average speed View Details
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Vendee Globe
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
problems were self-inflicted. Our prices were too high. The online shopping experience was miserable. The speed of shipping was terrible. The experience in the stores had gone down. The cost structure was...
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figuring out where the company should be investing and how? Kapoor: Yeah, that’s a really good question, and I think I’ll start by saying that we acknowledge and feel that there’s a need for speed here. And so, when you’re looking for...
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to adjust is actually reduced. So I think, over time, you’re going to see increasing amounts of education, of learning opportunities, and development opportunities being...
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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
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Commodities;
Coffee;
Mexico;
Foreign Investment;
Institutions;
Immigration;
Developing Agriculture;
Development;
Export Crop;
Emerging Market;
Property Rights;
Labor History;
History;
Capital Markets;
Business History;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico;
Central America
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support, the access to the credentials, speed to market. And the other substantive bottleneck that we are experiencing actually comes down to the clinical components of our model. This has been a real...
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I’m being dramatic, so it’s not totally naive, and it’s a lot of smart people in a room having these conversations. But Tobi and I looked at that process and said, “Okay, well what’s wrong with that?” Again. What’s wrong with that is that...
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- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
together heterogeneous teams, you want to make sure that it happens in a way that people collaborate, and there is a lot of conversation and opportunities for them to adjust as they go.” An invitation for...
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by Michael Blanding
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second part is, how can adjustments to that old model affect our ability to have a diverse workforce and reach out to workers that historically would not have been able to fit into the Slack schedule when it was so office-centric.Elliott:...
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- September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
pymetrics: International Expansion
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2018, pymetrics, a solution offering neuroscience-based recruiting tests, closed a $40 million funding round that valued the business at $160 million. Over 60 companies around the globe were using pymetrics tests in their recruiting process, including...
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Psychodynamics;
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Hiring;
Strategic Evolution;
Strategy And Execution;
Startup;
Start-up;
Startups;
Start-ups;
Entrepreneur;
Bias;
Rapid Growth Stage;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Employment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Strategy
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "pymetrics: International Expansion." Harvard Business School Case 720-376, September 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
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real time, adjust what the skills are.Fuller: It’s interesting. I did a paper with some colleagues at Deloitte on how boards and senior management teams think about talent hiring and these issues, as an issue View Details
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patterns—then, now, suddenly, you have a network that is operating at the same speed that your mind is processing reality.Fuller: Mo, how do you think this is going to play out in terms of the emergence...
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- 04 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
The First Alumni of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
study on the importance of speed in a startup, to “lightning talks” with recent alumni on relevant topics related to MS/MBA life after HBS. A number of alumni advisors who are...
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us about how the workforce is adjusting to the new normal?Welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast from Harvard Business School. I’m your host, Bill Kerr. My guest today is Sander van’t Noordende,...
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the pandemic. But the pandemic has pushed a lot of caregivers into more marginalized employment. How has the perspective around hidden workers adjusted from when you began the project to now, 18 months or so...
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