MBA Lab Resources

Collaboration Peer Evaluations: Writing and Receiving Them Honestly Most MBA peer evaluations are uniformly positive and therefore useless. How to write one that's both honest and fair—and what to do with a hard one you receive. 5 min read Collaboration The First 48 Hours of a New MBA Team Teams settle into their habits faster than anyone expects. A kickoff checklist for the two days that decide how the next ten weeks go. 4 min read Careers How to Talk About Team Projects in MBA Interviews Your group projects are your best behavioral-interview material—if you capture the stories while they're happening and structure them well. 3 min read Collaboration Conflict Resolution on High-Stakes MBA Team Projects The four conflicts that hit almost every MBA team—effort gaps, quality gaps, direction fights, and credit disputes—and a script for each. 3 min read Collaboration Async-First Norms for Distributed MBA Teams How part-time, online, and executive MBA teams get more done with fewer live meetings—five norms that replace scheduling pain with written clarity. 3 min read Productivity RACI Matrices for MBA Group Work (Without the Corporate Overhead) A lightweight RACI that fits student teams: one table, four letters, and the two rules that prevent most group-project failure. 3 min read Productivity Running Effective Retrospectives for MBA Teams A 30-minute retrospective format that surfaces what's slowing your team down—without turning into a blame session. 3 min read Productivity How to Run Your MBA Team Project Like a Product Manager Product managers ship with no authority over anyone. That's exactly your situation on an MBA team—here's which parts of the job transfer, and which don't. 4 min read Productivity Time Management for MBA Students Under Heavy Team Load Standard productivity advice assumes your time is yours. In an MBA it isn't—half your calendar belongs to four other people. Here's what actually works. 4 min read Collaboration Team Communication Tips for MBA Project Success Most MBA team friction isn't personality—it's four unwritten communication rules nobody agreed on. Here's how to set them in twenty minutes. 4 min read