Familiarity - Publications - Faculty & Research

2009
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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

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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

responded to the kinds of accretionary, miscellaneous forms they were familiar with . . . in which commercial and non-commercial messages mingle and prepared themselves for a world in which advertisements were ever more present.” 53 The... View Details

24 May 2018
Blog Post

Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

'see around the corner' to help them identify and meet the challenges ahead." To find these "win/wins," Norris invites board seekers to consider one key question: "What companies face challenges I have expertise in?" Many of these challenges will be View Details

Portrait Project

Jevan Soo

imploring others to join my refrain. I must hold a distracted, indifferent audience spellbound, convincing them that this song above all others deserves their attention. Can I appreciate notes different from my own? Like many others, I prefer View Details

16 Oct 2014
News

Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation

When regulated industries exert undue influence on (or “capture”) their governmental regulators, problems that are all too familiar may result. And while scholars have investigated regulatory capture, deregulation has been the most... View Details

17 Apr 2014
News

Striking a Balance

Alvin J. Silk The struggle to balance career and family was all too familiar to the late Diane Doerge Wilson, whose memory is being honored with an HBS professorship funded by a gift from her husband, Alvin J. Silk. A senior consultant at... View Details

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

include housing. Returning veterans could not find affordable homes. A condominium costs 12 times annual income; and the country has a dearth of rental units. In Israel, demand for housing outstrips supply—a conundrum familiar to United... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate

Portrait Project

Jason Brown

I’m all too familiar with not fitting in. It started when I was young. Coming from a Filipino-Japanese-Caucasian family, I’ve never known anyone who looks like my brother and me. It got harder as a teenager. Never “one of the boys,” I was... View Details

Portrait Project

Emily Davis

Even as a professional life calls me to the city, I will keep having dangerous adventures, both in the familiar bush and in new locations. I want to share this very spirit of adventure with everyone I touch — to inspire them to take... View Details

Portrait Project

Brian Sykes

frustration as they recall a recent trip to my hometown. All too familiar with how this scene plays out, I ready myself for a discussion of the city’s much publicized faults. I cringe when I hear stories of frightening encounters with the... View Details

Portrait Project

Alpha Mengistu

every day, I remember watching students and recent immigrants temporarily satisfy their yearning for home. Swinging my feet from a bar stool that dwarfed me, I took in the sense of comfort and belonging ladled on their plates right next to the aromatic wot and shiro.... View Details

04 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

she was president of the Fidelity Personal Investments unit of Fidelity Investments, serving 4 million customers with $500 billion in assets. She answers our questions in this e-mail Q&A. Poping Lin: We are familiar with the benefits... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin

01 Oct 1997
News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

improve the economic and social well-being of low-income people by helping them create sustainable businesses. The diverse microenterprises she worked with included oil seed extraction, a sewing school, farming activities, dairy cooperatives, and informal credit... View Details

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

exchange form the foundation of the larger improvisation. Each of the six improvisations described below involves a specialized set of fundamental guidelines for interaction. Haggling, perhaps the most familiar negotiation improvisation,... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

04 Feb 2022
News

Hour by Hour

$1,000 per permanent hire by bypassing recruitment, background checks, and training. It has also helped hourly employees pick up extra work. “You can imagine that if you’re a store manager, you want somebody who’s familiar with your... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Outtakes with Russ Wilcox

thought — being able to carry many complexities in your brain at the same time — is a certain skill that people who grow up reading literature develop. People who read IMs don’t.” Why e-readers are a good thing for civilization: “E-books bring reading back to a View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Portrait Project

Keyne Monson

important is my desire to be the best husband/father possible, while maintaining a close-knit family characterized by mutual respect and love. I also want to be teachable. My 4-year old son, Taylor, asks me a familiar question each night:... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way

offering for senior-level public education officials), and the increasing involvement of the Social Enterprise Initiative in education issues are all contributing to — and becoming familiar parts of — the School’s academic landscape. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2003
News

Jackie Adams

against the fickleness of the job market. After graduation, Adams signed on with the CBS station in Chicago before joining the network’s Washington bureau, covering Congress, presidential campaigns, and the White House, while becoming a View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; journalism; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

22 Oct 2014
News

Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead

done a lot of work supporting the public school districts and I was becoming more and more familiar with what was going on in the public schools in terms of student achievement levels and a rapid decline that you see in middle school.... View Details

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