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Extreme Teaming
Today’s global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry... View Details
- 04 Jan 2022
- News
How Corporate Intelligence Teams Help Businesses Manage Risk
- October 2009
- Case
Medisys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development Team
By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Key topics include designing teams, managing teams, managing conflict, group dynamics, project management, product development, interdepartmental relations, and organizational change. MediSys, a U.S.-based medical equipment maker, has been developing IntensCare, a new... View Details
Keywords: Project Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change; Leadership; Conflict Management; Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Product Design; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Care and Treatment; Power and Influence; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
Donnellon, Anne, and Joshua D. Margolis. "Medisys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development Team." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-059, October 2009.
- 25 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of Teaming
Editor's note: Many managers are taught to think of teams as carefully designed, static groups of individuals who, like a baseball team or improv comedy troupe, have ample time... View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
- July 2008
- Exercise
Information Use by Managers in Decision Making: A Team Exercise
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ann Cullen
The purpose of this exercise is to explore the challenges of information collection and analysis. Students will, experientially, gain insights into how information is used and be exposed to a framework for identifying and evaluating information. In addition, the... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Decision Making; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
Edmondson, Amy C., and Ann Cullen. "Information Use by Managers in Decision Making: A Team Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 609-027, July 2008.
- 13 Dec 2021
- News
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
- 2002
- Working Paper
A Dynamic Model of Top Management Team Effectiveness: Managing Unstructured Task Streams
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Michael A. Roberto and Michael Watkins
Edmondson, Amy C., Michael A. Roberto, and Michael Watkins. "A Dynamic Model of Top Management Team Effectiveness: Managing Unstructured Task Streams." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-048, January 2002.
- September 2009
- Module Note
Leading Teams Note
This note, which describes the architecture and processes that characterize effective teams, begins by detailing the steps involved in designing a team, from diagnosing the complexity, interdependence, and objectives of the task to harnessing the key resources teams... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
Polzer, Jeffrey T. "Leading Teams Note." Harvard Business School Module Note 410-051, September 2009.
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
monkeybusinessimages No matter how much we hate going to meetings, there’s a generally accepted best practice that teams should meet with their managers on a regular cadence. More often than not, unfortunately, I hear leaders and their staffs dreading these... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- autumn 1986
- Article
Top Management Teams and Corporate Success in an Emerging Industry
By: Michael Tushman and B. Virany
Tushman, Michael, and B. Virany. "Top Management Teams and Corporate Success in an Emerging Industry." Journal of Business Venturing 1, no. 3 (autumn 1986): 261–274.
- January 2025
- Supplement
Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams (B)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In January 2025, Modi reflects on the past decade of Go Mobile and looks ahead to new growth strategies. View Details
- Article
Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
By: Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri
We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within... View Details
Keywords: Ethnic Diversity; Organizational Behavior; Labor Management; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Performance
Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri. "Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization." Art. 104332. Journal of Public Economics 197 (May 2021).
- 08 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Team Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming
- 27 Jul 2021
- News
Building Successful Hybrid Teams
- March 2014 (Revised February 2015)
- Case
Loki Capital Management
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Shikhar Ghosh and Matthew Preble
In December 2013, Michael Kane was preparing to launch his start-up's first hedge fund. While pleased with the development of the business, he wanted to address a few lingering issues before going any further. He debated whether or not to fire the company's chief... View Details
- February 2003
- Background Note
Identity Issues in Teams
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Hillary Anger Elfenbein
This note explains how identity dynamics underlie many of the observable interpersonal problems that team members encounter, ranging from lack of participation and low involvement to misunderstandings and dysfunctional emotional conflict. It provides a framework for... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Managerial Roles; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Emotions; Identity
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Hillary Anger Elfenbein. "Identity Issues in Teams." Harvard Business School Background Note 403-095, February 2003.
- 2019
- Chapter
Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations
By: Bruce J. Fried and Amy C. Edmondson
Book Abstract: Completely updated to address the challenges faced by modern health care organizations, this edition of Shortell and Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior offers a more global perspective on how the United States and... View Details
Fried, Bruce J., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations." Chap. 5 in Shortell & Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 7th ed., edited by Lawton Robert Burns, Elizabeth H. Bradley, and Bryan Jeffrey Weiner, 98–131. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2019.