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2015
Working Paper

Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

By: Renée Adams, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer

What makes a CEO? We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with data on their service as a CEO of any Swedish company decades later. CEOs have higher cognitive and non-cognitive... View Details

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Management Teams

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Sep 2007 - 2007
Conference Presentation

Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams

By: James R. Dillon, Shikhar Sarin and Amy C. Edmondson

Boundary spanning has been shown in prior research to enhance innovativeness and performance of product development teams. In this study, we examine team conditions that foster boundary spanning behavior. We analyze survey data from 207 members of 54 cross-functional... View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Boundaries; Leadership Style; Product; Complexity; Integration; Power and Influence

October 2001
Article

Speeding Up Team Learning

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Learning

3 Aug 2007 - 8 Aug 2007
Conference Presentation

Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah Soule

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Learning; Interactive Communication

June 2016
Article

Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to solve “wicked problems.” So leaders have to understand how to promote collaboration when roles are uncertain, goals are shifting, expertise and organizational... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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1979
Working Paper

Formal Systems of Appraisal of Individual Performance: Some Considerations, Critical Issues, and Applications to Non-Profit Organizations

By: R. M. Kanter and D. Brinkerhoff

28 Sep 2023
News

Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

director in Sarah Stockwell. “I’m delighted to announce that Sarah Stockwell has joined the Alumni Relations team as the new Director of Alumni Clubs & Associations,” says Gold, adding that Stockwell’s arrival this month completes a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service

01 Sep 2009
News

Building Your Own Dream Team

book, his text-messaging bills surely the rival of a government bailout. Ferrazzi’s new book, Who’s Got Your Back: The Breakthrough Program to Build Deep, Trusting Relationships That Create Success — and Won’t Let You Fail (Broadway... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

March 2024
Case

Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan

Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Business Exit or Shutdown; Transition; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Ownership Stake; Expansion; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; Estonia; Republic of Ireland; United Kingdom; Singapore

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June 2018 (Revised June 2018)
Teaching Note

Blake Sports Apparel and Switch Activewear: Bringing the Executive Team Together

By: Boris Groysberg, Tricia Gregg and Katherine Connolly Baden

Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-048. View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Communication; Cooperation; Decision Making; Leadership

26 Oct 2022
News

How to Create Safe Teams

Jan 06 2015
Testimonial

Managing Change as a Team

March 1989
Case

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: The Knowledge-Based Systems Team and the PIX Project

We measure the overall influence of contextual versus individual factors (e.g., voting rules and media as opposed to race and education) on voter behavior, and explore underlying mechanisms. Using a US-wide voter-level panel, 2008–2018, we examine voters who... View Details

30 Oct 2015
News

Can Providers and Insurers Team Up to Fix Health Insurance?

29 Jan 2020
News

Fear Is A Bad Leadership Team Principle

April 2005 (Revised May 2005)
Case

New England Patriots, The: Making the Team

Examines the organizational strategy of a professional football team that contributed to the team's sustained success. Considers several aspects of the team's "blueprint" with respect to players: recruitment, retention, task structure, training, culture, and... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Sports; Compensation and Benefits; Sports Industry; New England

Educators