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- 17 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century
work done," says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management. “Teaming is the engine of organizational learning.” The problem: Stable teams that plan first and execute later are...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 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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- 02 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams
- 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.)
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
are my tips on mastering the team meeting. Meeting Purpose Set a clear purpose for your team meeting. What do you want your team to get out of the time spent together? Do you...
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by Julia Austin
- August 12, 2021
- Article
The Endless Digital Workday
By: Arjun Narayan, Rohan Narayana Murty, Rajath B. Das and Scott Duke Kominers
The shift to remote work ended the traditional 9–5 workday: employees work in bursts, at night, between caregiving tasks, and whenever they can find time between the endless distractions of messages, calls, and emails. New research, however, shows that for many teams,...
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Remote Work;
Workday;
Team Overlap;
Groups and Teams;
Employees;
Performance Productivity;
Management
Narayan, Arjun, Rohan Narayana Murty, Rajath B. Das, and Scott Duke Kominers. "The Endless Digital Workday." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (August 12, 2021).
- 27 Jul 2021
- Interview
Amy Edmondson on How to Create a Psychologically-Safe Workplace and What to Do If You Don't Work in One
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Harvard Business School Professor and renowned business expert, Amy Edmondson, talks about the growing link between psychological safety at work and the results that high-performing teams accomplish.
She details what psychological safety is, how to create a...
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"Amy Edmondson on How to Create a Psychologically-Safe Workplace and What to Do If You Don't Work in One." Episode 430. Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, July 27, 2021.
- 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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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.
- 25 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of Teaming
learning and process knowledge, and explains why these are important concepts for today's leaders. Teaming is a verb Sports teams and musical groups are both bounded, static collections of individuals. Like...
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Re: Amy C. Edmondson
- March 2016 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Lotus F1 Team
By: Stefan Thomke, Nikolaos Trichakis, Jérôme Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Describes the detailed inner workings of a high performance Formula One (F1) racing team. It shows how Lotus F1 Team has been able to battle bigger rivals in a very fast-moving, highly regulated, and ultra-competitive environment, where winning races can come down to...
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Formula One;
Motor Sport;
Racing Cars;
Car Development;
Supply Chain;
Logistics;
Innovation and Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Product Design;
Research and Development;
Auto Industry;
Sports Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Thomke, Stefan, Nikolaos Trichakis, Jérôme Lenhardt, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Lotus F1 Team." Harvard Business School Case 616-055, March 2016. (Revised February 2021.)
- 03 Oct 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams
creating a team to build a city of the future. The Importance of Teaming Fast-moving work environments need people who know how to team on the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does a team leader win the confidence of...
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- 17 Dec 2012
- News
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century
- 2017
- Working Paper
Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation
By: Paul A. Gompers, Kevin Huang and Sophie Q. Wang
We study the role of homophily in group formation. Using a unique dataset of MBA students, we observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of...
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Gompers, Paul A., Kevin Huang, and Sophie Q. Wang. "Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-104, May 2017.
- 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.
- 2014
- Article
Where Global and Virtual Meet: The Value of Examining the Intersection of These Elements in Twenty-First-Century Teams
By: Cristina B. Gibson, Laura Huang, Bradley L. Kirkman and Debra L. Shapiro
We review prior research that has examined virtuality in teams (e.g., pertaining to the use of electronic media) or the global nature of teams (e.g., national and cultural differences), demonstrating that very few scholars have examined both simultaneously. Given that...
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Global Virtual Teams;
Cultural Diversity;
Electronic Communication;
Computer-mediated Communication;
Groups and Teams;
Global Range;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Interactive Communication
Gibson, Cristina B., Laura Huang, Bradley L. Kirkman, and Debra L. Shapiro. "Where Global and Virtual Meet: The Value of Examining the Intersection of These Elements in Twenty-First-Century Teams." Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 1 (2014): 217–244.
- August 2014 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Teaming at Disney Animation
By: Amy C. Edmondson, David L. Ager, Emily Harburg and Natalie Bartlett
Jonathan Geibel, Director of Systems at Walt Disney Animation Studios (hereafter referred to as Disney Animation), walked through the workspace occupied by the group he had been tasked to lead. Geibel knew he was part of a creative and magical environment. The Disney...
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Leading Change;
Creativity;
Organizational Structure;
Animation Entertainment;
Organizational Culture;
Groups and Teams;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States
Edmondson, Amy C., David L. Ager, Emily Harburg, and Natalie Bartlett. "Teaming at Disney Animation." Harvard Business School Case 615-023, August 2014. (Revised May 2015.)