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Army Crew Team, The

By: Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey T. Polzer
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Abstract

The coach of the varsity Army crew team at West Point assembled his top eight rowers into the first crew team and the second tier of rowers into the second team using objective data on individual performance. As the second boat continually beat the first boat in races, the coach attempted to discern the team dynamics causing these aberrant results. By using very clean, objective performance data, the case makes clear that a team can be more (or less) than the sum of its individual parts, but allows students to analyze the factors that make this true.

Keywords

Groups And Teams; Performance; New York (state, Us)

Citation

Snook, Scott A., and Jeffrey T. Polzer. "Army Crew Team, The." Harvard Business School Case 403-131, January 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
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Scott A. Snook

Organizational Behavior
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Jeffrey T. Polzer

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