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    [Dissertation Research] Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams

    My dissertation (2013 Organization Science/ INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition Finalist) examines the dynamics and creative performance of multicultural teams. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, I introduce the concept of "cultural... View Details

    • 26 Aug 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Unpacking Team Diversity: An Integrative Multi-Level Model of Cross-Boundary Teaming

    Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
    • 28 Jul 2010
    • News

    Entrepreneurs run with crowdsourcing model

    • 21 Aug 2023
    • Book

    You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

    student loans, and afford a kid or two. But then there’s another disruption.” Wallace explains. “There’s a calculus of: If I’m never going to get that stability, then I’m going to do what I can to be happy now.” Wallace believes that more people are waking up to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

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

    By: Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate
    This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of the work. We present data from an exploratory... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Behavior
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    • 22 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22

    innovation with more recent work on open innovation. These fundamentally different and inconsistent innovation logics are associated with contrasting organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2006
    • Case

    Strategies for Preventing a Knowledge-Loss Crisis

    When employees leave an organization, they depart with more than what they know; they also leave with critical knowledge about who they know. Thus, the departure of key people can significantly affect the relationship structure and consequent functioning of an... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics; Networks; Knowledge Management; Resignation and Termination
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    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work

    beyond.” You Might Also Like: Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 20 Jul 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

    problems or create value in some way. What's driving this trend? Karim Lakhani: The main driver is accessing knowledge that is widely distributed in the world. Many organizations are now finding they simply do not have the ability to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • 25 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Importance of Teaming

    team's composition may change at any given moment. Teaming, she says, is essential to organizational learning. She elaborates on this concept in her new book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
    • February 2017
    • Module Note

    Leading Global Teams

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global teams that must work together across national boundaries and toward a common goal. Students will learn to diagnose the challenges that global teams often face as well as strategies that... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • 02 Apr 2007
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Making the Move to General Manager

    faculty; the program is also supported by a very professional and skillful administrative team. Although it is a new program, GMP actually grew out of two other longstanding programs with a deep tradition and knowledge base at the School,... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • June 2008
    • Journal Article

    Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'

    By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
    Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Strategy; Theory
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    • September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
    • Background Note

    Leadership and Teaming

    By: Ethan Bernstein
    Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details
    Keywords: Teams; Teaming; Leadership And Managing People; Leadership; Team Effectiveness; Team Performance; Team Design; Team Leadership; Teamwork; Team Process; Team Function; Team Launch; 60/30/10 Rule; Team Boundary; Distribution Of Leadership Authority; Self-Managed Teams; Virtual Teams; Unbounded Teams; Acts Of Leadership; Execution Teams; Decision Making Teams; Creativity Teams; Team Size; Task Design; Team Timeline; Team Roles; Team Representation; Diversity; Team Familiarity; Collective Intelligence; Team Stages Of Development; Team Coaching; Performance Pressure; X-Teams; Team Focus; Interaction; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Management Systems; Management Style; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Networks; Social Psychology; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Familiarity; Cognition and Thinking; Attitudes; Projects; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Sharing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Design; Interpersonal Communication; Accommodations Industry; Accounting Industry; Advertising Industry; Aerospace Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Air Transportation Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Battery Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Bicycle Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Communications Industry; Computer Industry; Construction Industry; Consulting Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Distribution Industry; Education Industry; Electronics Industry; Employment Industry; Energy Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Fashion Industry; Financial Services Industry; Fine Arts Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Forest Products Industry; Forestry Industry; Green Technology Industry; Health Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Insurance Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Legal Services Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Mining Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Music Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Relations Industry; Publishing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Rail Industry; Real Estate Industry; Retail Industry; Rubber Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Service Industry; Shipping Industry; Sports Industry; Steel Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Tourism Industry; Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Utilities Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry; Asia; North and Central America; South America; Atlantic Ocean; Central Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; Oceania; West Indies
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    • 2015
    • Chapter

    Innovating without Information Constraints: Organization, Communities, and Innovation when Information Costs Approach Zero

    By: Elizabeth J. Altman, Frank Nagle and Michael Tushman
    Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information processing challenges associated with... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Cost; Innovation and Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions

    By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the work being performed. A thorough understanding of the... View Details
    Keywords: Modularity; Innovation; Product And Process Development; Organization Design; Design Structure; Organizational Ties; Mirroring Hypothesis; Industry Architecture; Product Architecture; Complex Technical Systems; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Product Development
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services

    By: Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
    The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased outsourcing.... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Knowledge Acquisition; Volume; Performance Productivity; Health Industry
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    • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 11 Dec 2014
    • Webinars: Trending@HBS

    Leadership Lessons from the 2010 Chilean Mine Rescue

    Professor Edmondson will explore teaming as a dynamic response to the demands of knowledge intensive businesses. Organizations that do it well have a competitive advantage, because teaming is how organizations learn how they anticipate and respond to shifts in the... View Details
    • September–October 2013
    • Article

    Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services

    By: Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
    The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased outsourcing.... View Details
    Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Customer Satisfaction; Health Industry
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    The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field

    By: S. Purao, C. Y. Baldwin, A. Hevner, V. Storey, J. Pries-Heje and B. Smith
    he boundaries and contours of design sciences continue to undergo definition and refinement. In many ways, the sciences of design defy disciplinary characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g. construction, analysis or... View Details
    Keywords: Design; Engineering; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research; Science; Boundaries; Value
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