643- Team Building Case: Henry Tam and the MGI Team Team: Not Yet Date: 10/24/2012 Aaron Bush Katie Hempling Lindsey Kovel Manish Kulkarni Rochelle Walker Fields Siddhu Question # 1: What is your evaluation of the team’s process, the way they work together? What are the underlying causes of any issues that you identify? The group meetings were disorganized and the team members did not have designated roles. The meetings typically consisted of a lot of brainstorming, but the team had
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Henry Tam entered the HBS Business Plan contest hoping to gain experience above and beyond the normal HBS curriculum. He teamed up with interactive music-based game start-up company, Music Games International (MGI). From the outside, Henry seemed to be part of a well designed and diverse team. However, the lack of team preparation has led to poor team processes and left MGI with no tangible business plan three weeks before the deadline. However, MGI’s team processes can still be improved through
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Report on the case “Henry Tam and the MGI team” In partial fulfilment of WAC course Submitted by: Nishant Prateek Minz Executive Summary Henry Tam, an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, is facing the problem of bringing together his team on common grounds regarding MGI’s submission for the annual HBS business plan competition which could provide him with good credentials and the company with the jumpstart
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Introduction The overall team process of MGI seems dysfunctional and ineffective; members forming the MGI team brought a variety of skills set resulting from the multi-talented compositions, diversity in ethnic backgrounds, close personal relationships and a shared desire for the product. The main task for the team was to launch a product at the Harvard Business School (HBS) business plan contest, however, the team has failed in delivering such product for the lack of group roles, defining objectives
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The Henry Tam case is in the course packet. Make sure to pay attention to both the case text and the exhibits when you prepare your analysis. 90% of the score will be based on content, as discussed in the critical thinking grading rubric. 10% will be based on style. While it will be okay to fill in the table below with bullet points, each bullet point should be a full sentence. The analysis should be comprehensive, yet concise; there is no minimum or maximum word count. Grammatical and spelling
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the processes necessary to organize, motivate, and lead people engaged in collective activities. The emphasis will be on the development of concepts and strategies that may help you to be an effective manager. To accomplish these ends, readings, cases, and videos will be used to introduce you to frameworks from the social sciences that are useful for understanding organizational
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