Publications

2002
Working Paper

Framing for Learning: Lessons in Successful Technology Implementation

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2003
Chapter

Managing the Risk of Learning: Psychological Safety in Work Teams

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Learning; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Safety; Social Psychology

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future research. Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2005
News

Faculty Research Online

objectively. In this excerpt from “Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently)” in the June 2005 issue of Long Range Planning, Professor Amy Edmondson and coauthor Mark Cannon (PHDOB ’98) offer a... View Details

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

April 23, 2020
Other Article

The Impact of Covid-19 on Psychological Safety in the Workplace (Interview)

Keywords: Psychological Safety

2013
Book

Teaming to Innovate

Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key insights on teaming, as they pertain to innovation. How do you build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture

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February 2008
Teaching Note

Mitchells/Richards (TN)

Teaching Note for [604010]. View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Faculty Research Symposium

and correction of such errors, Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson studied eight teams of caregivers from two different teaching hospitals to explore how group and... View Details

2009
Chapter

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

12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

PublicationsBlending Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research Authors:Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul Publication:In Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, edited View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
Case

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details

Educators

01 Mar 2005
News

Facing Ambiguity

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts onboard. In a new multimedia case, “Columbia’s Final Mission,” by HBS assistant professors Michael... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

09 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 9

this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/10/great-leaders-dont-need-experience/ar/1 Working PapersTeam Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming Authors:Melissa Valentine and Amy View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
News

Join in the Centennial

Club of Charlotte Senior Lecturer Michael Chu April 26, 2008 HBS Club of Puget Sound Professor Howard Stevenson April 29, 2008 HBS Club of Northeastern Ohio Professor Amy Edmondson View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Web

Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

significant impact on the company’s bottom line, is psychological safety. WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY? In her book The Fearless Organization , Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson describes... View Details

Article

Agility Hacks

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ranjay Gulati

In the past 20 years, the agile approach to improving products, services, and processes has swept the business world. Rooted in software development, agile has spread to many other functions, and some companies have turned much of their organization, including the... View Details

Keywords: Agile Practices; Agile Project Management; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Groups and Teams; Innovation Strategy

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2017
Working Paper

Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming... View Details

Keywords: Teams; Knowledge; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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January 2016
Supplement

Open Innovation at Fujitsu (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This add-on case study reveals the location decision that was made in front of the challenge presented in case study #616-034. The launch of the Open Innovation Gateway (OIG) was a success. Fujitsu's management team now had to figure out the best way to continue to... View Details

Keywords: Open Innovation; Collaboration; Culture Change; Inter-organizational Relationships; Teaming; Maker Movement; Nascent Industries; Change Management; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; United States; Sunnyvale