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Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
In this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences... View Details
Keywords: Management; Groups and Teams; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Experience and Expertise; Change; Diversity; Information Technology Industry; India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Fluid Tasks and Fluid Teams: The Impact of Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 13, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 310–328.
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Turn Your Group into a True Team
- September 2012
- Supplement
Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation: Working with Project Teams as a 'Single Point of Contact'
By: Willy C. Shih
Shih, Willy C. "Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation: Working with Project Teams as a 'Single Point of Contact'." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 613-701, September 2012.
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
How to Manage a Hybrid Team
- 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.
- 17 Dec 2013
- News
The Three Pillars of a Teaming Culture
- 2012
- Working Paper
Pay Dispersion and Work Performance
By: Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan
The effect of intra-firm pay dispersion on work performance is controversial and the empirical evidence is mixed. High pay dispersion may act as an extra incentive for employees' effort or it may reduce motivation and team cohesiveness. These effects can also coexist... View Details
Bucciol, Alessandro, and Marco Piovesan. "Pay Dispersion and Work Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-075, February 2012.
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Large-Scale Field Experiment Shows Null Effects of Team Demographic Diversity on Outsiders' Willingness to Support the Team
By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Rosanna K. Smith
Demographic diversity in the United States is rising, and increasingly, work is conducted in teams. These co-occurring phenomena suggest that it might be increasingly common for work to be conducted by demographically diverse teams. But to date, in spite of copious... View Details
Chang, Edward H., Erika L. Kirgios, and Rosanna K. Smith. "Large-Scale Field Experiment Shows Null Effects of Team Demographic Diversity on Outsiders' Willingness to Support the Team." Art. 104099. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 94 (May 2021).
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
team weren’t even on the ads team It was the culture that attracted . These five engineers . To the company in the first place. How would this story play out if Google had relied heavily on remote View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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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
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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).
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
HBS's Amy Edmondson On the Death of Teams
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Team - Case Method Project
Lucy Knox works on the teacher support team to help teachers succeed in using the case method in their own classrooms. She received her B.A. in History at Cornell University, focused on American political... View Details
- 17 Sep 2012
- News
How to Manage a Diverse and Dispersed Team
- 28 Mar 2012
- News
People Are Irrational, But Teams Don't Have to Be
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
people have been working from home for a few weeks, leaders need to hold a “working from home” relaunch to help their teams learn to reorient based on the new realities. While View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
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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
- 17 Mar 2022
- News