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  • 28 Mar 2012
  • News

People Are Irrational, But Teams Don't Have to Be

  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

By: Heidi K. Gardner
In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing team motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I conducted a... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Groups and Teams
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Diversity and Performance in Entrepreneurial Teams

By: Sophie Calder-Wang, Paul A. Gompers and Kevin Huang
We study the role of diversity and performance in the entrepreneurial teams. We exploit a unique dataset of MBA students who participated in a required course to propose and start a real micro-business that allows us to examine horizontal diversity (i.e., within the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Performance
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  • 25 Apr 2019
  • News

Who’s the Most Important Member of an NFL Franchise?

    Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

    In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team’s motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details

    • March 2012
    • Article

    Performance Pressure as a Double-edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation but Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

    By: Heidi K. Gardner
    In this paper, I develop and empirically test the proposition that performance pressure acts as a double-edged sword for teams, providing positive effects by enhancing the team's motivation to achieve good results while simultaneously triggering process losses. I... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Performance
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    • 07 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

    interpersonal interactions essential to knowledge workers and looks at how teams tried to facilitate them. They include: Task interactions, when team members collaborate on... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Sep 2007 - 2007
    • Conference Presentation

    Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams

    By: James R. Dillon, Shikhar Sarin and Amy C. Edmondson
    Boundary spanning has been shown in prior research to enhance innovativeness and performance of product development teams. In this study, we examine team conditions that foster boundary spanning behavior. We analyze survey data from 207 members of 54 cross-functional... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Boundaries; Leadership Style; Product; Complexity; Integration; Power and Influence
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    • Research Summary

    The timing of team leader coaching interventions

    People who coach teams – including team leaders, senior members of an organization, and external consultants – must observe team dynamics and diagnose opportune moments to intervene.  My dissertation, “The timing and type of team... View Details
    • January 2004 (Revised July 2007)
    • Case

    Lumen and Absorb Teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering, The

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Elizabeth Schatzel
    Large discrepancies have developed between two elite technology development teams at Crutchfield Chemical Engineering in terms of motivation and creativity. To investigate, Paul Burke, director of corporate technology development, commissioned a study of the day-by-day... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Managerial Roles; Projects; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 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
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    • Research Summary

    THEME #1: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH TEAM FAMILIARITY

    Are organizational capabilities simply the aggregation of individual skills and experience, or do they also depend on particular connections between individuals developed through prior work experience?  Since a capability consists of the accumulated... View Details

    • 17 Mar 2022
    • News

    Research: To Excel, Diverse Teams Need Psychological Safety

    • 29 Jan 2020
    • News

    Fear Is A Bad Leadership Team Principle

    • January 2002 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    Chapter Enrichment Program Teams at the American Red Cross (A)

    By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Anita Williams Woolley
    The American Red Cross has a system for structuring, staffing, and leading teams to review its local chapters. Mirroring professional services firms that use teams to serve clients, this system provides detailed guidelines to increase individual team member's... View Details
    Keywords: Planning; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Leadership; Organizational Structure
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    • 18 Nov 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams

    Gino and her colleagues found that individuals in some situations aren't always so easily cowed. For this study, in which individual team members held different clues essential to solving the mystery, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological Safety and Learning in Diverse Teams

    By: A. Edmondson and Kate Roloff
    We review research on psychological safety and team learning to identify core ideas and findings in these closely related literatures and to propose a model in which a negative relationship between team member diversity and team collaboration is moderated by... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Performance Improvement; Learning; Diversity
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services

    By: Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats and David M. Upton
    Much of the literature on team learning views experience as a unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume of, or the number of projects completed by, a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Improvement; Projects; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Information Technology Industry; India
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    • Web

    Our Team - Impact Investments

    Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and... View Details
    • 31 Jan 2007
    • HBS Case

    When Good Teams Go Bad

    Concludes Polzer, "The best teams are those that not only combine the skills of their members successfully to fit the demands of their task but also energize team View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons