Individuals And Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2018 (Revised June 2020)
Case

Creating the French Behavioral Insights Team

By: Michael Luca, Ariella Kristal and Emilie Billaud

This case explores how neuroscientist Mariam Chammat helped set up the first behavioral insights team at the center of the French government, and encouraged French administrations to innovate and create policy initiatives based on psychological theories of influence... View Details

Keywords: Choice Architecture; Behavioral Economics; Experiments; Negotiation; Decision Making; Economics; Taxation; Entrepreneurship; Consumer Behavior; Public Administration Industry; Europe; France; Paris

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January 2022
Teaching Note

Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (A) and (B)

By: John Beshears and Christine Exley

Teaching note for "Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (A) and (B), nos. 920-029 and 920-030. View Details

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May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Zoom Video Communications vs. Microsoft Teams

By: Andy Wu

In June 2021, Zoom executives prepared for competition in the post-pandemic world. Zoom‘s breakthrough success in the previous year put the company in a position to set up many new opportunities going forward. At the same time, its success attracted competitors like... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy

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Article

Top Management Teams and Corporate Success in an Emerging Industry

By: Michael Tushman and B. Virany

Keywords: Management; Groups and Teams; Success; Supply and Industry

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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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05 Jul 2022
Op-Ed

Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams

we care about. Care about the sound of our own voice (E or I) and we don’t listen. Care about the other person too, and things shift radically.” Alan ArnettLondon, UK Re: "Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

1 Jan 2021
Interview

Encore Teams That Succeed with Amy Edmondson

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Wanda Wallace

Teams in which people are not afraid to speak up, to challenge, to risk saying a wild idea are teams with the best performance. Google has found that psychological safety is a key component of their best teams. Yet, people are afraid of causing trouble, looking... View Details

Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Trust; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness

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07 Jan 2011
News

Obama Retools Economic Team

2005
Other Unpublished Work

The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery

By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Performance; Health Care and Treatment

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April 2006
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The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac Surgery

By: Robert S. Huckman and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Performance; Health Care and Treatment; Information

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22 Mar 2012
News

Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create “Moments”

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

October 2009
Case

Medisys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development Team

By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis

Key topics include designing teams, managing teams, managing conflict, group dynamics, project management, product development, interdepartmental relations, and organizational change. MediSys, a U.S.-based medical equipment maker, has been developing IntensCare, a new... View Details

Keywords: Project Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change; Leadership; Conflict Management; Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Product Design; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Care and Treatment; Power and Influence; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States

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Team - Case Method Project

About Team 1ms David Moss Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and the founder of the Case Method... View Details

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

thing or two about efficiency. But it's one thing to make yourself more efficient, quite another to make a team more efficient, and still another when that team's membership is in constant flux. With... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

01 Nov 2008
News

When Teams Cant Decide

Keywords: Bob Frisch

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects the work they do—now published... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding