Publications

10 Jan 2017
News

Team Building For Survival

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects the work they do—now published... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Team - Case Method Project

About Team 17ms David Moss Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School and the founder of the Case Method Institute. Before joining the Harvard... View Details

May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Zoom Video Communications vs. Microsoft Teams

By: Andy Wu

In June 2021, Zoom executives prepared for competition in the post-pandemic world. Zoom‘s breakthrough success in the previous year put the company in a position to set up many new opportunities going forward. At the same time, its success attracted competitors like... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy

October 1993 (Revised September 1994)
Case

Becton Dickinson: Worldwide Blood Collection Team

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Kathleen Scharf

Describes Becton Dickinson's evolving attempt to develop products and strategies to meet worldwide competitive and market needs. Traces the evolution of a classic parent company-led product-market strategy to truly transnational product and strategy development.... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Product Development; Innovation and Management; Competitive Advantage; Multinational Firms and Management

01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

an unusual but immensely powerful approach to leadership that held promise far beyond the football field. To optimize performance, many leaders take the team or organization as the basic unit of analysis, seeking out processes and... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

January 2017
Teaching Note

Teaming at Disney Animation

By: Amy C. Edmondson, David Ager and Emily Harburg

19 Jan 2010
News

Kagame receives Harvard team

07 Jan 2011
News

Obama Retools Economic Team

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

repairs, replaces, and improves their property. Ensuring their data has sufficient unique IP in its granularity is key! The team needs to think about what would prevent adjacent competitors like Angi and Thumbtack from using their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

01 Nov 2008
News

When Teams Cant Decide

Keywords: Bob Frisch

October 1996 (Revised April 1997)
Case

Team New Zealand (C)

By: Marco Iansiti and Alan D. MacCormack

Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. View Details

Keywords: Sports Industry; Transportation Industry; New Zealand; United States

10 Jun 2020
News

Join a Virtual Job Search Team

March 22, 2012
Article

Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create 'Moments'

By: Tsedal Neeley

Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. In turn, these differences generate disruptions to team cohesion and top... View Details

Keywords: Global Range; Groups and Teams; Management Practices and Processes

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1 Jan 2021
Interview

Encore Teams That Succeed with Amy Edmondson

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Wanda Wallace

Teams in which people are not afraid to speak up, to challenge, to risk saying a wild idea are teams with the best performance. Google has found that psychological safety is a key component of their best teams. Yet, people are afraid of causing trouble, looking... View Details

Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Trust; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness