School Management Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Antoinette Schoar, MIT Sloan School of Management

03 Dec 2020
HBS Seminar

Negin Golrezaei, MIT Sloan School of Management

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

10 Dec 2020
HBS Seminar

Wanda Orlikowski, MIT Sloan School of Management

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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September 13, 2021
Article

Managing Through Crunch Time—Without Burning Out Your Team

By: Flavio Serapiao, Andrew Hill and Boris Groysberg

Crunch times—the long, stressful hours of work that are often required in the final weeks before a new product launch—can have an inordinate impact on the success of businesses and they’re powerful shapers of organizational culture. Effective leaders understand that... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Situation or Environment; Management Skills

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13 Dec 2021
News

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

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

03 Oct 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

7 Effective Ways to Lead Teams

Source: rawpixel Very few businesses today can exist today without effective team work. So it's surprising that while many managers are regularly coached on how to lead individuals, training in View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

November 2006
Article

How to Manage Urban School Districts

By: Stacey Childress, Richard Elmore and Allen Grossman

Keywords: Management; City; Education

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01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Colorado-based Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF), comes in. Since 2005, the nonprofit Growth Fund has provided necessary capital to 34 charter management organizations (CMOs) that run networks of charters... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

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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January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?

By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg

This case is set in 2015 as a team at Match Education, a high performing charter middle school in Boston, explores new staffing and technology approaches in their quest to obtain what they term "jaw dropping" results. The team hopes to test and model for other schools... View Details