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- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times
- 14 Apr 2020
- News
Three Keys To Engaged, Productive Telework Teams
- 14 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need
authors identify four research-backed steps that leaders can take to cultivate psychological safety among their employees. When properly understood, focusing on these four areas can boost team performance and View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- Web
Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory
Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and... View Details
- April 2012
- Article
The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Directions for Teams Research
By: Ruth Wageman, Heidi K. Gardner and Mark Mortensen
The nature of collaboration has been changing at an accelerating pace, particularly in the last decade. Much of the published work in teams research, however, is still focused on the archetypal team that has well-defined membership, purposes, leadership, and standards... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Research; Change Management; Leadership; Standards; Performance Effectiveness; Theory; Civil Society or Community
Wageman, Ruth, Heidi K. Gardner, and Mark Mortensen. "The Changing Ecology of Teams: New Directions for Teams Research." Journal of Organizational Behavior 33, no. 3 (April 2012): 301–315.
- 01 Oct 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance:Evidence from Indian Software Services
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 2007
- Article
Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process
By: Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon and Kate Roloff
The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions about how members of newly formed teams learn to work together... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Practice; Groups and Teams; Research; Adaptation; Cooperation
Edmondson, Amy C., James R. Dillon, and Kate Roloff. "Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process." Academy of Management Annals 1 (2007): 269–314.
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
Ilana L. Goldman (MBA ’02) always knew that she wanted to work in the public sector. But she didn’t expect to find herself back on the HBS campus just eighteen months after graduation talking about her new job. Goldman is vice president... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
lack of direct power is common in companies today, Neeley says, because so many people work on teams that form and disband on a project-by-project basis. Yet team leaders are... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- August 2003 (Revised November 2003)
- Background Note
Working Effectively with Counsel
Popular stereotypes of lawyers include "overhead," "Dr. No," "internal cop," "keep us out of trouble!" and "get us out of trouble!" Focus groups of business leaders queried in a survey by the Case Western Reserve University Law School associated the word "lawyer" with... View Details
Bagley, Constance E. "Working Effectively with Counsel." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-007, August 2003. (Revised November 2003.)
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
Four Ways To Get Your Global Team To Gel
- 09 May 2017
- News
Why You Can’t Concentrate at Work
- 05 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance
improve their job performance. “Our work shows that if we'd take some time out for reflection, we might be better off.” In the working paper Learning by Thinking: How Reflection Aids Performance, the authors... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- November 1991 (Revised June 1992)
- Case
AT&T: The Dallas Works (B)
Describes the innovative use of a cross-level team as a tool for driving change at a troubled AT&T plant. After the team is disbanded, the case raises questions about the group's achievements, and about how well the organization is positioned to tackle the changes that... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Groups and Teams; Telecommunications Industry; Texas
Jick, Todd D. "AT&T: The Dallas Works (B)." Harvard Business School Case 492-024, November 1991. (Revised June 1992.)
- 25 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!
Work degree and is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She oversees the various programs and functions of the Support Services team and provides... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition
On March 24, five teams of Harvard students came together to pitch innovative impact investment opportunities in early-stage social enterprises. The students were participants in a hands-on impact investing program called Turner MIINT... View Details
- January 2009
- Article
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services
By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India
Huckman, Robert S., Bradley R. Staats, and David M. Upton. "Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services." Management Science 55, no. 1 (January 2009): 85–100.