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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.
- March 2025
- Article
Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field
By: Erika L. Kirgios, Ike Silver and Edward H. Chang
Many organizations struggle to attract a demographically diverse workforce. How does adding a measurable goal to a public diversity commitment—for example, “We care about diversity” versus “We care about diversity and plan to hire at least one woman or racial minority... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Diversity; Goals and Objectives; Communication Intention and Meaning; Behavior
Kirgios, Erika L., Ike Silver, and Edward H. Chang. "Does Communicating Measurable Diversity Goals Attract or Repel Historically Marginalized Job Applicants? Evidence from the Lab and Field." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154, no. 3 (March 2025): 624–643.
- 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
Large-Scale Field Experiment Shows Null Effects of Team Demographic Diversity on Outsiders' Willingness to Support the Team
By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Rosanna K. Smith
Demographic diversity in the United States is rising, and increasingly, work is conducted in teams. These co-occurring phenomena suggest that it might be increasingly common for work to be conducted by demographically diverse teams. But to date, in spite of copious... View Details
Chang, Edward H., Erika L. Kirgios, and Rosanna K. Smith. "Large-Scale Field Experiment Shows Null Effects of Team Demographic Diversity on Outsiders' Willingness to Support the Team." Art. 104099. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 94 (May 2021).
- 28 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Appoints Terrill L. Drake Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
- January 22, 2020
- Article
Gender Diversity at the Board Level Can Mean Innovation Success
By: J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Boris Groysberg
Cheng, J. Yo-Jud, and Boris Groysberg. "Gender Diversity at the Board Level Can Mean Innovation Success." MIT Sloan Management Review (website) (January 22, 2020).
- 2004
- Article
Iconoclastic Eugenics: Thorstein Veblen on Racial Diversity and Cultural Nomadism
Reinert, Sophus A. "Iconoclastic Eugenics: Thorstein Veblen on Racial Diversity and Cultural Nomadism." International Review of Sociology 14, no. 3 (2004): 513–534.
- March 2006
- Module Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 3: Expanding Diversity
Describes the third module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Projects; Risk and Uncertainty; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Opportunities; Perspective; Expansion; Goals and Objectives
MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 3: Expanding Diversity." Harvard Business School Module Note 606-126, March 2006.
- 31 Jul 2024
Take30 Impact Series: Diverse Alumni in Marketing and PE Operations
Take 30 minutes out of your day to learn about how one alum is making an impact after HBS. We’ll touch on their experience as a student, their career path, and personal journey since graduating. On this episode, we feature Milagros "Millie" Carter (MBA 2013), Vice... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
External Partner Event: Top Business Schools Discuss: Diversity and Inclusion
Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the Wharton School to learn about their MBA programs and the experiences of... View Details
- October 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural... View Details
Keywords: Female Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Inclusion; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Racism; Sexism; Start-up; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Diversity; Gender; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Innovation and Invention; City; Culture; Miami
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joyce J. Kim. "Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women." Harvard Business School Case 321-083, October 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
- 04 Jan 2023
- News
Beyond Bias: Improving Workplace Diversity in the Age of Algorithms
- 1 Oct 2007
- Keynote Speech
Racial Diversity and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Team Performance
By: R. Ely
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
level who have the potential to move up, and you need to be really proactive about developing their potential,” Eberle Walker says. “That’s probably the opportunity leaders overlook most often.” The third step was being explicit with the recruiting team: “It’s not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company... View Details
- 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).
- 1 Oct 2006
- Keynote Speech
Shifting Paradigms in Diversity Research: From Difference to a Relational Framing
By: R. Ely
- 2018
- Working Paper
Threat Matching: A Model for Tailoring Diversity Approaches to Context
By: E. Apfelbaum and J. Lees