Managing Diverse Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2009
Teaching Note

RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams (Brief Case)

By: David A. Garvin and Elizabeth Collins

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Keywords: Work Force Management; Employee Empowerment; Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Employee Relationship Management

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Diversity on Boards - Alumni

HBR. By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy Gender Diversity at the Board Level Can Mean Innovation Success January 2020, Article MIT Sloan Management By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Boris Groysberg... View Details

August 2003 (Revised October 2003)
Case

C&S Wholesale Grocers: Self-Managed Teams

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Tejal Mody and David Ager

Rick Cohen, president and CEO of C&S Wholesale Grocers, is trying to decide whether and how to implement the self-managed teams concept in his warehouse. Eight months earlier, C&S had begun to act as principal wholesaler to A&P throughout New England, a decision that... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Labor Unions; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution Channels; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; New England

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07 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

interactions they needed to succeed. When managers understand the building blocks for team work, they can allocate time better and select the right communication tools, whether View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

March 22, 2012
Article

Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create 'Moments'

By: Tsedal Neeley

Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. In turn, these differences generate disruptions to team cohesion and top... View Details

Keywords: Global Range; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes

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22 May 2024
News

Leading The Future Workplace: Managers Must Be The Engineers Of Their Hybrid Teams

February 2012
Article

CEO Relational Leadership and Strategic Decision Quality in Top Management Teams: The Role of Team Trust and Learning from Failure

By: Abraham Carmeli, Asher Tishler and Amy C. Edmondson

In this study, we examine a complex pathway through which CEOs, who exhibit relational leadership, may improve the quality of strategic decisions of their top management teams (TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Decisions; Management Teams; Trust; Learning; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Failure

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07 Jul 2016
Video

How to Fix a Broken Global Team

June 2006
Teaching Note

Hala Madrid: Managing Real Madrid Club de Futbol, the Team of the Century (TN)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez

Keywords: Sports; Management; Sports Industry; Spain

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Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, GDO division of AOM

By: Lumumba B. Seegars

Awarded Best Paper Based on a Dissertation by the Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division of the Academy of Management for “Sanctioned Radicals: Comparing Collective Organizing Around Race and Gender Inside Organizations” in 2020. View Details

November 2004 (Revised June 2006)
Case

Hala Madrid: Managing Real Madrid Club de Futbol, the Team of the Century

Florentino Perez, the president of Real Madrid, a leading European soccer team, is preparing for a press conference in which he will be asked about his plans for the coming season. Economic success and some sports mishaps during the prior season represent the scenario... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Strategic Planning; Value Creation; Risk Management; System; Budgets and Budgeting; Sports Industry; Spain

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31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

causal relationship between diversity and profitability, then management can safely argue that managing for diversity is a way to increase... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Nov 2015
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Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

Does Gender Diversity in Management Enhance Performance? Why? A variety of explanations for the positive correlation between gender diversity and better business performance... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2010
Working Paper

Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing

By: Bradley R. Staats, Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance trade-offs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach a team can take is to specialize, such... View Details

Keywords: Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Quality; Groups and Teams; Information Technology Industry; India

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20 Mar 2019
News

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

15 Sep 2020
News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

and get it done. Chitra: Is there a difference in terms of how you would tackle this problem, whether it's in a Fortune 500 company, an entrepreneurial company or even private equity—because diverse investment View Details

November 2018
Case

Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes

Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation and liberalization of the European energy market. With 41 connections to other European... View Details

Keywords: Enterprise Risk Management; Energy Transmission; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Energy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Switzerland

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