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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.
- 2012
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When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan and Lisa B. Kwan
Purpose—We review how team members' identities and interests affect team functioning, paying special attention to subgroup dynamics triggered by fault lines and coalitions. This review sets the stage for describing novel pathways through which identities and... View Details
Polzer, Jeffrey T., Lisa Kwan, and Lisa B. Kwan. "When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams." In Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research. v.15, edited by Margaret A. Neale and Elizabeth A. Mannix, 359–381. Research on Managing Groups and Teams. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2012.
- July–August 2013
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Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement
By: Michel Anteby
Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement...
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Fieldwork;
Research Practiced;
Distance;
Involvement;
Taboo;
Practice;
Ethics;
Education Industry
Anteby, Michel. "Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement." Organization Science 24, no. 4 (July–August 2013): 1277–1290.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Competition in Modular Clusters
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard
The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the activities of R&D, product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands...
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Keywords:
Price;
Profit;
Digital Platforms;
Industry Clusters;
Competition;
Horizontal Integration;
Vertical Integration
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and C. Jason Woodard. "Competition in Modular Clusters." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-042, December 2007.
- 06 Feb 2023
- HBS Seminar
Using Oral History in Business and Management Studies
- 09 Nov 2017
- HBS Seminar
Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University
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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Resources Credits HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director HBS & the Case Method Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry...
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infrastructure, boosting semiconductor manufacturing, and addressing climate change. But early results have been mixed, as many projects have been delayed or paused. Leaders were able to collectively step back from day-to-day to exchange...
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Alan Xie
by someone else’s Yellow Peril. I signed my oath of office wielding the collective hopes of a generation of immigrants, forcing us ceaselessly forward into a more inclusive future. Representing my community is my moral imperative. I have...
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Contemporary Art | About
Contemporary Art Harvard Business School collects and exhibits contemporary art to create an engaging and stimulating environment for the HBS community and those who visit the campus. Schwartz Art Collection...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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trash collection to snow removal. If the forecast is correct, DSNY will have to clear 5 to 6 inches from 6,500 miles of city streets—a task that involves fitting plows to 2,000 garbage trucks and salt spreaders while continuing to View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
race was no longer relevant or that we had somehow collectively moved beyond race in the workplace,” Roberts says. The picture that emerges from the essays in Race, Work, and Leadership echo the same message: Race not only still matters...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
path for our research today, which focuses on value creation of platforms and two-sided markets; use of open architecture and leverage of its collective value; development and execution of innovation strategies; innovative attributes of...
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HBS - Key Metrics
(metric tons of CO2 equivalent) 10,547 9,098 9,103 11,562 11,614 Energy (kbtu) 8 138,198,893 121,948,442 122,569,467 150,713,824 152,538,748 Water (100 cubic feet) 9 48,244 32,735 40,754 51,025 48,626 Municipal Solid Waste (tons) 10 357.48 204 196 394 357 US...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether family and professional CEOs differ...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax
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by Dina Pomeranz
- 2015
- Book
What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms
Based on decades of collective field experiences, the authors present anecdotal evidence in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great service leaders know that (1) leading a breakthrough service is different, and they take steps to ensure...
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Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger. What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015.
- June 2010
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Change for Change's Sake
By: Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam and Ranjay Gulati
No one disputes that firms have to make organizational changes when the business environment demands them. But the idea that a firm might want change for its own sake often provokes skepticism. Why inflict all that pain if you don't have to? That is a dangerous...
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Innovation and Invention;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Creativity;
Power and Influence;
Adaptation
Vermeulen, Freek, Phanish Puranam, and Ranjay Gulati. "Change for Change's Sake." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010).
- September 2009
- Article
Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?
As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals close in to take advantage of the loss of focus. In his classic article "The Focused Factory"...
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Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Goals and Objectives;
Resource Allocation;
Operations;
Performance Efficiency
Huckman, Robert S. "Are You Having Trouble Keeping Your Operations Focused?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 9 (September 2009): 90–95.