by Ami Albernaz - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

lens of a surgical team implementing a revolutionary new procedure called MICS (minimally invasive cardiac surgery), professors Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M. Bohmer, and Gary P. Pisano have looked beyond organizational factors to provide a... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

with their smartphones before a meeting begins, thinking of it as an efficient way to manage their time," says Maarten Bos, a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the study with HBS Associate Professor View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

Book Review

Book Review of Theory and Research on Small Groups edited by R. Scott Tindale et al.

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Keywords: Theory; Research; Groups and Teams

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22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

Fund has outperformed the S&P 500 by a 1.2 percent annual average return, she said Amy Domini Her firm uses some 100 criteria in judging a potential investment. Immediate knockouts would be companies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

Positive values are a fixture on corporate mission statements these days. But when leaders fail to live up to the values they've articulated, it's a recipe for employee cynicism, according to Sandra Cha and Amy Edmondson. Cha, an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant professor Anita Tucker and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

04 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Edward Chang noticed something interesting: To fill the vacancy, then-President Donald Trump replaced Ginsburg with another woman, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Dec 2023
Book

HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well

mobilize organizational change quickly, untangle digital strategy, and reflect on socially responsible leadership. Take a look back at some of the books by Harvard Business School faculty members that hit the market this year: Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Jun 2022
HBS Case

From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages

in March 2020, the pandemic only exacerbated a longstanding issue. The shortage of drivers to deliver food supplies to the roughly 300,000 restaurants, hotels, hospitals, schools, and universities serviced by US Foods was not its only... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

31 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

any, are appropriate in leading others? What do you think? Original Column Recently, the president of the United States was quoted as saying, “Real power is through respect. Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word, fear.” A book to be published in November... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

November 2020
Case

Axis My India

By: Ananth Raman, Ann Winslow and Kairavi Dey

Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI) as a printing and publishing company in 1998. In 2013, AMI expanded into consumer research and election forecasting. Although a relatively unknown entity, AMI predicted several election results accurately. Gupta describes AMI’s... View Details

Keywords: Market Research; Operations; Management; Infrastructure; Logistics; Service Operations; Political Elections; Forecasting and Prediction; Asia; India

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04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

process of constructing socialism was obscured to a degree by the bipolar structure of geopolitics. As the quest for allies and political support became a zero-sum game in Moscow and Washington, DC, it became easier to view states as... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led you to pursue this research? Amy Edmondson: This research, rather than being a single project, is part of a fifteen-year program of a half dozen or so projects in different settings, all focused on learning in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

11 Jun 2024
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

That High-Performing Teams NeedStruggling to spark strategic risk-taking and creative thinking? In the post-pandemic workplace, teams need psychological safety more than ever, and a new analysis by Amy... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

05 Jul 2023
What Do You Think?

How Are Middle Managers Falling Down Most Often on Employee Inclusion?

career. 2. The reliance on policies allowing work away from the office has created new challenges for managers. A better reason backed by research is that organizations are failing to engage their employees. Why? In large part because... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

sort of subscription offering, according to a new industry and background note coauthored by Harvard Business School Professor Elie Ofek. And they’re expected to multiply in the years ahead, with subscription billings View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

04 May 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Leading a Team to the Top of Mount Everest

Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson

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