Publications

04 Jan 2022
News

Is Your Sales Team Struggling to Sell Solutions?

23 Mar 2016
Cold Call Podcast

The Team Sport of Scaling a Business

Keywords: Re: Lynda M. Applegate

May 8, 2020
Article

Lead Your Team Into a Post-Pandemic World

By: Hubert Joly

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has tested leaders, especially as it relates to how they lead their workers. As the crisis goes on, many that the author has spoken with have begun to frame it around three distinct phases: The Shelter-in-Place Phase, the Re-opening... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Re-opening; Health Pandemics; Leadership; Employees; Communication; Human Needs

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December 2013
Article

The Hidden Benefits of Keeping Teams Intact

By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley Staats

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April 1998
Case

Becton Dickinson: Worldwide Blood Collection Team (Abridged)

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Becton Dickinson's Vacutainer business was largely based in the United States, but in 1980 management determined to grow the business aggressively first in Europe and then Japan. These areas demanded new products that were tailored to local markets. Despite the change... View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Product Development; Global Strategy; Expansion; Innovation and Invention; Multinational Firms and Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; Europe; Japan

Educators

2004
Working Paper

Team Learning and the Radical Diversity-Performance Link

By: Robin J. Ely and David A. Thomas

08 Aug 2008
News

Starting Up: Teaming Up With Other Businesses

18 Nov 2009
News

Goldman, Buffett Team to Aid Small Businesses

10 Jul 2017
News

Holistic care teams can finally revolutionize healthcare

01 Jun 2018
News

Stitch Fix CEO on Building Diverse Teams

Keywords: entrepreneurship; venture capital; leadership; women in business; gender diversity

June 2015 (Revised February 2016)
Case

Team Rubicon: Bridging the Gap from Startup to National Organization

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Dan Nidess

Team Rubicon, a military veteran volunteer disaster relief organization, has experienced significant success in attracting attention and support in its first four years of operation. The challenges of managing the volunteer base, the cost of responding to disasters,... View Details

Keywords: Growth Strategy And Execution; Disaster Relief; NGO; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Non-Governmental Organizations

Educators

March 2004
Supplement

C&S Wholesale Grocers: The Challenge of Self-Managed Teams

By: Thomas J. DeLong

Keywords: Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry

2012
Chapter

When Identities, Interests, and Information Collide: How Subgroups Create Hidden Profiles in Teams

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan and Lisa B. Kwan

Purpose—We review how team members' identities and interests affect team functioning, paying special attention to subgroup dynamics triggered by fault lines and coalitions. This review sets the stage for describing novel pathways through which identities and... View Details

Keywords: Information; Conflict of Interests; Interests; Groups and Teams; Identity; Performance

13 Dec 2021
News

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

March 2012
Article

Racial Diversity, Racial Asymmetries, and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Performance

By: Robin J. Ely, Irene Padavic and David A. Thomas

This paper argues that learning in cross-race interactions is critical for work teams to realize performance benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Performance; Learning; Diversity