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  Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green

  Amy C. Edmondson, Sydney Ribot and Mary Saunders

  Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions to green-building conundrums through consulting, research, and policy-related activities. Emphasis is placed on the role of integrated design and the intensive team-based "charrette" process in Terrapin's consulting work as well as on the design trends of biophilia and biomimicry. The case focuses on the sustainable redesign of 111 8th Avenue, New York, New York, to explore the challenge of managing strategic, intangible services in the context of Terrapin's more concrete focus historically. A serendipitous discovery leads the founders to consider how the firm could systematize its process while maintaining the flexibility that made it successful.

  Keywords: integrated design; entrepreneurs; Creative Industries; CONSULTING firms; Energy; Design; Governance; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Labor; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Research; Strategy; Value; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY);

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  Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Mary Saunders. "Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green." Harvard Business School Case 613-053, May 2013. (Revised from original May 2013 version.)

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• Teaching Plan | HBS Case Collection | 2013

  The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue (A) & (B)

  Amy C. Edmondson and Kerry Herman

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  Edmondson, Amy C., and Kerry Herman. "The 2010 Chilean Mining Rescue (A) & (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 613-012, May 2013.

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  'Argo': The CIA's Mission Impossible in Iran

  Amy C. Edmondson and Jeremy Tachau

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  Edmondson, Amy C., and Jeremy Tachau. "'Argo': The CIA's Mission Impossible in Iran." Harvard Business School Case 613-087, April 2013.

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