Publications

14 Jun 2023
News

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

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

17 Sep 2012
News

How to Manage a Diverse and Dispersed Team

Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

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

03 May 2011
News

Leadership Lessons from the Saddle

Article

Timing is Everything: The Importance of Finding the Right Moment in Leading Teams

Great team leaders have superb timing. We explore in this article two different types of timing that leaders need to help their teams. First, they understand when teams are naturally open to help, and what kinds of help to give teams at predictable times in... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style

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

spring 1992
Article

Organizing and Leading 'Heavyweight' Development Teams

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

Keywords: Leadership; Groups and Teams

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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

1997
Chapter

Organizing and Leading 'Heavyweight' Development Teams

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

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership; Organizational Design

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Web

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

Web

Faculty & Research - Leadership

on growing the company and improving the perception of its value by the capital markets. He and his senior leadership team have made inroads to this end, including adjusting the... April 2025 Case Pouring... View Details

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

Web

Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations View Details

September 2003
Article

Speaking up in the Operating Room: How Team Leaders Promote Learning in Interdisciplinary Action Teams

By: A. Edmondson

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Leadership; Learning; Groups and Teams; Health Industry

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21 Oct 2021
News

5 Things High-Performing Teams Do Differently

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