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- 18 Feb 2021
- Interview
Amy Edmondson: Are You Missing One of Your Most Important Jobs as a Manager?
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Chris Clearfield
During our conversation, we talked about:
• The renewed interest in the concept of psychological safety
• J.D. Thompson’s notion of “reciprocal coordination needs”
• How knowledge work does not produce objective or mechanical... View Details
• The renewed interest in the concept of psychological safety
• J.D. Thompson’s notion of “reciprocal coordination needs”
• How knowledge work does not produce objective or mechanical... View Details
"Amy Edmondson: Are You Missing One of Your Most Important Jobs as a Manager?" Episode 18. The Breakdown with Chris Clearfield (podcast), February 18, 2021.
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
A recent Bloomberg profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood (MBA 1999) offers an inside look at how the 16-year company veteran has worked to redefine the tech giant. Hood’s tenure as CFO began with an immediate challenge, as detailed in the... View Details
Matter Over Mind, by David Brooks
I had a fantastic visit to the Harvard Decision Sciences Lab...and I got to meet several of the researchers there.
I got to hear Amy Cuddy of the Harvard Business School, describe her research. I... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
personal responsibility. Evidence of this problem is provided by a study of a large European telecoms company, which revealed that very little learning occurred from a set of large and small failures over a period of twenty years. Instead... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which, at 20,310 feet, is the tallest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
over 100 early-stage deals, we believe that an investment opportunity has four essential elements, that, when brought together in the right form, represent a high-potential opportunity to make money. If only one of the elements is out of sync, failure is predictable.... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 08 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
When Learning and Performance are at Odds: Confronting the Tension
Keywords: by Sara J. Singer & Amy C. Edmondson
- 26 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Unpacking Team Diversity: An Integrative Multi-Level Model of Cross-Boundary Teaming
- 04 Jan 2011
- News
How You Can Become More Powerful by Literally Standing Tall
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
Photos courtesy of Mobius Motors Driving in Kenya can be a rough ride, over bumpy dirt roads and potholed urban streets, made worse by dust, heat, and torrential rain. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to own a vehicle that will stand up... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 29 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor
Keywords: by Faaiza Rashid & Amy C. Edmondson
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
into Eastern Europe right now," he notes, "I hope to be one of the first there to help them do that." Photography by Webb Chappell Shari P. Hubert Scott C. Bolick Herman I. Safin Margaret M. Crotty Christopher S. Yeh Raymond M. Jefferson View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must take into consideration a host of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
When Pano Christou (AMP 195, 2018) was hired at Pret A Manger in 2000, the idea that he would one day run the entire company could not have been further from his mind. At the chain’s Carnaby Street shop, in London’s Soho district, the 22-year-old had enough work just... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Club Flourishes in London
The British have never been known to shrink from a challenge, and the intrepid members of the United Kingdom's HBS Club of London are no exception. When the club was bested by alumni of INSEAD in a winetasting contest last year, club... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
Price: Building next-generation buzz for an essential—but often misunderstood—species. (photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post/Getty Images) Like a hands-on chief executive who loads pallets and leads merger talks, the bees in Dan... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Tradition and Outreach at HBS Club de France
Like a fine French wine, the HBS Club de France has aged well and been savored by many. The club was organized in 1934 by the legendary HBS professor General Georges F. Doriot. Jean L. Borit (MBA '33) headed... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 27 Dec 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Team Learning Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance
- 05 Nov 2020
- News