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- April 2018
- Article
Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Martine R. Haas
How does the organization of patenting activity affect a firm’s patenting outcomes? We investigate how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent approvals by examining the main effects of...
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Keywords:
Leader Experience;
Micro-foundations Of Innovation;
Scope;
Speed;
Team Diversity;
Within-firm Data;
Groups and Teams;
Diversity;
Patents;
Leadership;
Experience and Expertise;
Outcome or Result
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas. "Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms." Strategic Management Journal 39, no. 4 (April 2018): 977–1002.
- 08 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Team Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming
- 2013
- Book
Teaming to Innovate
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look...
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Edmondson, Amy C. Teaming to Innovate. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2013.
- February 2017
- Module Note
Leading Global Teams
By: Tsedal Neeley
This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global teams that must work together across national boundaries and toward a common goal. Students will learn to diagnose the challenges that global teams often face as well as strategies that...
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Neeley, Tsedal. "Leading Global Teams." Harvard Business School Module Note 417-073, February 2017. (https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/417073-PDF-ENG?Ntt=tsedal%20neeley.)
- Research Summary
Top Management Teams
Michael Roberto is studying how senior management teams function, and how chief executives lead these teams effectively. Many chief executives can identify their top management team, but this set of executives does not necessarily perform critical tasks and make...
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- 17 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century
Even as academic journals and business sections of bookstores fill up with titles devoted to teams, teamwork, and team players, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson wonders if many might be barking up the wrong tree. "I've...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Nov 2008
- News
Team 'Chimerica'
- July – August 2008
- Article
Making Diverse Teams Click
High interpersonal congruence-meaning alignment between team members' self-assessments and their appraisals of one another-improves the performance of diverse teams. And 360-degree feedback can help.
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Polzer, Jeffrey T. "Making Diverse Teams Click." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 20–21.
- 27 Jul 2021
- News
Building Successful Hybrid Teams
- October 2001
- Background Note
A Note on Team Process
By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
When tasks are highly complex, demand a diversity of skills, or require a commitment from the involved parties, teams are usually the most effective way to approach them. But a group of people working together does not automatically equally a team, and groups are often...
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Keywords:
Competency and Skills;
Decision Making;
Management;
Business Processes;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Efficiency;
Groups and Teams;
Conflict and Resolution
Hill, Linda A., and Maria Farkas. "A Note on Team Process." Harvard Business School Background Note 402-032, October 2001.
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
students firsthand experience with team dynamics. “Learning teams are becoming part of the culture at HBS,” says Professor Jeff Polzer, faculty chair of the MBA Learning Teams...
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- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
a great event." What made the New York/New Jersey region a unique challenge was having two of everything—two states and their associated agencies (New York and New Jersey), two host teams (New York Jets and New York Giants), and two sides...
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- April 2005
- Module Note
Team Processes: Instructor's Overview
Describes the cases and exercises that comprise the Team Processes module of the Leading Teams course. Also describes the sequence in which the materials are used, along with the connections and transitions among the materials.
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Polzer, Jeffrey T. "Team Processes: Instructor's Overview." Harvard Business School Module Note 405-008, April 2005.
- Web
Team - Entrepreneurship
About Rock Team The Rock Center team knows about the world of startups. Incorporating real-world expertise with decades of academic excellence, the Center’s team is driving an...
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- 26 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Unpacking Team Diversity: An Integrative Multi-Level Model of Cross-Boundary Teaming
- 04 Apr 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Preparing the Self for Team Entry: How Relational Affirmation Improves Team Performance
- February 2003
- Background Note
Identity Issues in Teams
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
This note explains how identity dynamics underlie many of the observable interpersonal problems that team members encounter, ranging from lack of participation and low involvement to misunderstandings and dysfunctional emotional conflict. It provides a framework for...
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Keywords:
Framework;
Managerial Roles;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Effectiveness;
Groups and Teams;
Conflict and Resolution;
Emotions;
Identity
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. "Identity Issues in Teams." Harvard Business School Background Note 403-095, February 2003.
- Article
Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups
By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper shows how mesolevel structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We...
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Valentine, Melissa A., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Organization Science 26, no. 2 (March–April 2015): 405–422.
- May 2006
- Module Note
Leading Culturally Diverse Teams
By: Robin J. Ely
Describes the Leading Culturally Diverse Teams module (eight class sessions), which teaches students the leadership perspectives and skills necessary to develop high-functioning, culturally diverse teams (teams diverse in, for example, race, ethnicity, gender,...
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Ely, Robin J. "Leading Culturally Diverse Teams." Harvard Business School Module Note 406-097, May 2006.