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- 24 Jan 2022
- News
Building a Globally Diverse Team Is Actually Getting Easier
- 16 Mar 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Amount and Diversity of Digital Emotional Expression Predicts Happiness
- 06 Dec 2023
Diverse Student Voices Series: The Black & Latino Experience
Join us for a 20-minute chat with a current student and get a peek into their daily life at HBS. On this episode, we’re talking with Chloe Sharp, MBA 2024 and AASU Admissions VP. This virtual event is open to all prospective students. View Details
- 27 Aug 2020
Diverse Perspectives Series: Admissions Q&A with AASU and LASO
Hear from members of the African American Student Union (AASU) and the Latin American Student Organization (LASO) as they answer questions about the MBA experience, culture, and community at HBS. View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
Diverse Perspectives Series: Women in Retail and Consumer Goods
Please join faculty member Dr. Jill Avery as she moderates a panel of HBS women making a difference in the retail and consumer goods space. Learn about their experiences and how HBS has played a role in their journeys. View Details
- 26 May 2021
- News
Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (with Frances Frei)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes, by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences... View Details
Keywords: Familiarity; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Projects; Experience and Expertise; Diversity; India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-145, June 2009. (Revised August 2009, November 2009, April 2010, August 2010; revise and resubmit, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.)
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Vital Signs: The Pros and Cons of Diversity in Organisations
- March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
The Annenberg Foundation: Promoting Diversity in the Investment Management Industry
By: Randolph B. Cohen and Johnson Elugbadebo
Keywords: Investment Management; Investing; Foundations; Fund Management; Diversity; Investment; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Randolph B., and Johnson Elugbadebo. "The Annenberg Foundation: Promoting Diversity in the Investment Management Industry." Harvard Business School Case 224-065, March 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- 16 May 2022
- News
Jody Rose and Jeff Bussgang Are Tackling Tech’s Diversity Problem
- Article
Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and Scrutiny Relate to Group Composition
By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh and Modupe Akinola
Across a field study and four experiments, we examine how social norms and scrutiny affect decisions about adding members of underrepresented populations (e.g., women, racial minorities) to groups. When groups are scrutinized, we theorize that decision makers strive to... View Details
Keywords: Social Norms; Impression Management; Groups and Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Diversity; Gender; Decision Making
Chang, Edward H., Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh, and Modupe Akinola. "Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and Scrutiny Relate to Group Composition." Academy of Management Journal 62, no. 1 (February 2019): 144–171.
- 08 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
“That’s probably the opportunity leaders overlook most often.” The third step was being explicit with the recruiting team: “It’s not about saying ‘I prioritize diversity but ultimately I’m going to hire the best person for the job.’... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 28 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Appoints Terrill L. Drake Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
- 04 Jan 2023
- News
Beyond Bias: Improving Workplace Diversity in the Age of Algorithms
- January 2009
- Article
Spatial Diversity in Invention: Evidence from the Early R&D Labs
By: Tom Nicholas
This article uses historical data on inventor and firm R&D lab locations to examine the technological and geographic structure of corporate knowledge capital accumulation during a formative period in the organization of US innovation. Despite the localization of... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Geographic Location; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Knowledge Acquisition; Research and Development; United States
Nicholas, Tom. "Spatial Diversity in Invention: Evidence from the Early R&D Labs." Journal of Economic Geography 9, no. 1 (January 2009).
- 2009
- Chapter
Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation
Edmondson, Amy C., Kate Roloff, and Lucy H. MacPhail. "Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition." In Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by Laura M. Roberts and Jane E. Dutton, 311–332. Psychology Press, 2009.
- Article
Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences... View Details
Keywords: Management; Groups and Teams; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Experience and Expertise; Change; Diversity; Information Technology Industry; India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 310–328.