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  • 2011
  • Chapter

Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations

By: Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping and Amy C. Edmondson
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness; Health; Health Industry
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  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

cannot be attributed to the usual suspects of success: superior business models or cutting edge technology. Holt is interested in what makes identity brands resonate. In his research, he focuses on the best-performing identity brands—the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, each focused on only specific pieces of the overall puzzle. Competition takes place both between competing platforms and between products that build on top of these platforms. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Teaching Note

BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leadership Team

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Olivia Hull
Teaching Note for HBS No. 417-020. View Details
Keywords: Health Care Services; Entrepreneurs; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Health Care Industry; Growth Strategy; Organizational Change; Brand Positioning; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurial Management; Franchising; Family-owned Business; Home Health Care; Managing Growth; Management Styles; Organizational Development; Talent Management; Women Executives; Women And Leadership; Business Startups; Family Business; Small Business; Talent And Talent Management; Governing And Advisory Boards; Health Care And Treatment; Human Capital; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Business Or Company Management; Growth And Development Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, And Techniques; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Systems; Management Teams; Brands And Branding; Marketing Strategy; Strategy; Health Industry
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  • February 2016
  • Supplement

Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams Video Supplement (1)

By: Tatiana Sandino
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Top Executive Background and Financial Reporting Choice

By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Travis Welch
We study the role of executive functional background in explaining management discretion in financial reporting. Taking goodwill impairment as our reporting setting, we focus on top executives (CEOs and CFOs) whose employment history includes experience in investment... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Goodwill Accounting; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Managerial Roles; Agency Theory
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  • TeachingInterests

Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

  • 2010
  • Chapter

Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure

By: Heidi K. Gardner and Erin McFee
Pressure intensifies on a strategy consulting team as they deliver a critical project, and the team manager faces a dilemma about her changing role on the team. Although she had been the key decision-maker in the early weeks of the project, Julia Narino now finds that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Projects; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Customization and Personalization; Consulting Industry
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  • 23 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

landscape of possibilities, while a product development team struggles to understand customers' changing needs and to invent new ways to serve them, and a production team seeks to improve its work process.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 22 Mar 2012
  • News

Global Team Leaders Must Deliberately Create “Moments”

  • October 2008
  • Article

Sociopolitical Dynamics in Relations Between Top Managers and Security Analysts: Favor Rendering, Reciprocity, and Analyst Stock Recommendations

By: James Westphal and Michael B. Clement
We examine how the disclosure of negative firm information may prompt top executives to render personal and professional favors for security analysts, who may reciprocate by rating firms relatively positively. We further examine how negative ratings may prompt... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Relationships; Power and Influence; Ethics
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  • 30 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience

Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Web Services
  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

not appropriate for the team member); not providing enough clarity about an assignment; changing assignments or objectives too frequently; giving assignments that conflict with other management... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • September 1990 (Revised March 1991)
  • Case

Mod IV Product Development Team

By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Focuses sharply on a crossfunctional product development team at Honeywell's Building Controls Division. Traces the history of teams at the division, which introduced them as a response to intensifying competition and the need for faster development. Reveals the... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Corporate Culture Homogeneity and Top Executive Incentive Design: Evidence from CEO Compensation Contracts

By: Dennis Campbell, Ruidi Shang and Zhifang Zhang
We examine how corporate cultures characterized by high degrees of homogeneity in the underlying values and beliefs of organizational members are related to the design of CEO incentive compensation contracts. We argue that culture homogeneity within firms lowers... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Culture; Compensation Design; Accounting; Management Control; Incentive Systems; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Governance; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives
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  • February 2016 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

America's Cup in 2013: Oracle Team USA vs. Emirates Team New Zealand (A)

By: Rory McDonald, Alan MacCormack and Vanessa Ampelas
Four teams across the world are furiously designing, building, testing, and learning to sail a boat that would be one-of-a-kind in order to win the 2013 America's Cup. Choosing the best development path was a challenge as the teams had less than three years to prepare,... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Competition; Innovation and Management; Sports; Sports Industry; New Zealand; United States
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  • October 2009
  • Teaching Note

Medisys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development Team (Brief Case)

By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Teaching Note for 094059 View Details
Keywords: Project Management; Conflict Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change And Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Projects; Conflict and Resolution; Product Development
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  • November 2009
  • Teaching Note

RL Wolfe: Implementing Self-Directed Teams (Brief Case)

By: David A. Garvin and Elizabeth Collins
Teaching Note for 4063 View Details
Keywords: Work Force Management; Employee Empowerment; Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Employee Relationship Management
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  • September 2013 (Revised April 2014)
  • Teaching Note

Transitions Asia: Managing Across Cultures

By: Roy Y.J. Chua, Sharon Mozgai and Dawn Lau
The director of an interim executive research firm, Chee Lung Tham, faced a clash of culture and management styles when his mainland China client threatened to fire the American interim manager that Tham had assigned. The client, Wong Lung, ran a family-owned garment... View Details
Keywords: China; Cross-cultural Management; Family Business; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Management Style; Service Industry; China
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  • Mar 05 2019
  • Testimonial

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