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  • November 2009 (Revised December 2009)
  • Case

RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams

By: David A. Garvin and Elizabeth Collins
Key topics include team design, team management, job design, employee empowerment, implementing change, and high performance workforces. In 2004, John Amasi, the director of production for a manufacturer of plastic pipe, introduced the concept of self-directed teams... View Details
Keywords: Work Force Management; Employee Empowerment; Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Leading Change; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Manufacturing Industry; Texas
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  • June 2003
  • Article

A Dynamic Model of Top Management Team Effectiveness: Managing Unstructured Task Streams

By: A. Edmondson, Michael A. Roberto and Michael Watkins
Keywords: Management; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness
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  • Article

From Orientation to Behavior: The Interplay Between Learning Orientation, Open-mindedness, and Psychological Safety in Team Learning

By: Jean-François Harvey, Kevin J. Johnson, Kathryn S. Roloff and Amy C. Edmondson
Do teams with motivation to learn actually engage in the behaviors that produce learning? Though team learning orientation has been found to be positively related to team learning, we know little about how and when it actually fosters team learning. It is obviously not... View Details
Keywords: Emergent States; Goal Orientation; Open-mindedness; Psychological Safety; Team Learning; Teams; Groups and Teams; Learning; Goals and Objectives
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  • 27 Sep 2021
  • News

Managing Through Crunch time—Without Burning Out Your Team

  • 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

    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
    • 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
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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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    • 13 Dec 2021
    • News

    The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

    • 04 Jan 2022
    • News

    How Corporate Intelligence Teams Help Businesses Manage Risk

    • TeachingInterests

    The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (MBA)

    By: Anita Elberse
    This second-year MBA course is primarily designed for students pursuing a career in the entertainment, media and sports sectors -- including film, television, music, publishing, video games, the performing arts, sports, fashion, and advertising -- or who plan to work... View Details
    • April 2015
    • Teaching Note

    Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams

    By: Tatiana Sandino
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    • November 2004 (Revised June 2006)
    • Case

    Hala Madrid: Managing Real Madrid Club de Futbol, the Team of the Century

    Florentino Perez, the president of Real Madrid, a leading European soccer team, is preparing for a press conference in which he will be asked about his plans for the coming season. Economic success and some sports mishaps during the prior season represent the scenario... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Strategic Planning; Value Creation; Risk Management; System; Budgets and Budgeting; Sports Industry; Spain
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    • 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
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    • November–December 2022
    • Article

    Number One in Formula One: Leadership Lessons from Toto Wolff and Mercedes, the Team behind One of the Greatest Winning Streaks in All of Sports

    By: Anita Elberse
    Toto Wolff, the team principal for Mercedes-AMG Petronas—arguably the most impressive team in F1 racing history—has led his organization to unparalleled success. Mercedes earned the Constructors’ Championship (for best overall team performance) every year from 2014... View Details
    Keywords: Formula One; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Management Style; Success
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    • 16 Mar 2022
    • Blog Post

    Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

    professional who was gearing his career towards general management and loved the game of basketball. Overseeing P&L, strategy, finance, merchandising, marketing, and social purpose further developed Laitsas’ general View Details
    • 31 May 2015
    • News

    Harvard Management Professor: What Your Team Is Really Afraid of

    • September 2009
    • Module Note

    Leading Teams Note

    By: Jeffrey T. Polzer
    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
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    • 04 Sep 2019
    • News

    Giving Live Sports Another Dimension

    1978), Senior Advisor for Imagination Park (photo courtesy of Jonathan Mariner) One of the most enduring appeals of sports is the experience of being in the stadium when something momentous happens. But what about the rest of the time?... View Details
    • Program

    The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports

    Summary Nowhere has the impact of digital technology been felt more keenly than in the entertainment world, where it has dramatically changed how products are developed and managed—and how talent connects with audiences. In this entertainment View Details
    Keywords: Media & Entertainment; Media & Entertainment