Publications

Jan 06 2015
Testimonial

Managing Change as a Team

03 May 2011
News

Leadership Lessons from the Saddle

Web

Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

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

04 Jan 2021
News

Chasing Friction: The Paradox of High Performing Teams

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

12 Apr 2010
News

A SWAT Team For Performance

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

25 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

Determining how to successfully balance responsibilities, opportunities, and challenges is imperative to a positive and productive student experience. The Student and Academic Services (SAS) Support Services team in the MBA Program... View Details

January 2002 (Revised June 2002)
Background Note

A Note on Building and Leading Your Senior Team

By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas

As performance demands intensify in fast-moving global markets, more executives are coming to rely on senior teams for strategic and operational assistance. Team building with powerful senior executives presents special challenges, including competition for their boss'... View Details

Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Management Teams; Operations; Organizational Culture; Rank and Position; Strategy

Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious... View Details

14 Jun 2023
Research & Ideas

Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

environments where candor is expected and where employees can speak up without fear of retribution. When employees feel psychologically safe, they’re empowered to iterate and take risks—leading to better team performance. “You no longer... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

20 May 2020
News

A Winning Team at TB12

Keywords: fitness; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

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

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

circumstances.” Don’t forget your own leadership relaunches.To guide teams through these drastic changes, leaders must take the difficult step of acknowledging to themselves and the View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

spring 1992
Article

Organizing and Leading 'Heavyweight' Development Teams

By: K. B. Clark and S. C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Leadership; Groups and Teams

Find at Harvard

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

disconfirmed our initial estimate, we dropped the CEO from our sample. Q: What made these leaders unusual? A: The CEOs were quite different in personality, background, and leadership style. But they were similar in what they saw as the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2012
News

How to Manage a Diverse and Dispersed Team

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Leadership Leadership 2015 Chapter Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation By: Linda A. Hill More than ever, leaders of nearly every kind of organization... View Details

August 2002 (Revised February 2005)
Case

Gillette Company (B): Leadership for Change

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and James Weber

Describes the actions and behavior of a new CEO in his first days and weeks as he sets expectations for his top management team and introduces processes and disciplines to begin the turnaround of a global consumer products company. View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Policy; Change Management; Leading Change; Motivation and Incentives; Strategic Planning; Retail Industry