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- 2021
- Article
Large-Scale Field Experiment Shows Null Effects of Team Demographic Diversity on Outsiders' Willingness to Support the Team
By: Edward H. Chang, Erika L. Kirgios and Rosanna K. Smith
Demographic diversity in the United States is rising, and increasingly, work is conducted in teams. These co-occurring phenomena suggest that it might be increasingly common for work to be conducted by demographically diverse teams. But to date, in spite of copious...
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- April 2021
- Case
IBM: Design Thinking
By: Srikant M. Datar, Amram Migdal and Paul Hamilton
This case describes the 2012-2020 effort at IBM to implement design thinking throughout the company and hire thousands of designers to serve on every product team alongside technical engineers and developers and product managers. IBM’s design transformation is told...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Divisions;
Business Units;
Business Organization;
Change;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Competency and Skills;
Talent and Talent Management;
Design;
Human Resources;
Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Innovation and Invention;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Jobs and Positions;
Job Design and Levels;
Leading Change;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Management Practices and Processes;
Operations;
Product;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Organizations;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Adoption;
Technological Innovation;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
- April 2021
- Case
The Mahindra Group: Leading with Purpose
By: Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani
India headquartered Mahindra Group is a multibillion-dollar federation of companies operating across the globe. It is ahead of its time in articulating its purpose and mapping its values, something it had first done at inception and then refreshed yet again as ‘Rise’...
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Keywords:
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Change Management;
Communication Strategy;
Family Ownership;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Revenue;
Auto Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Technology Industry;
Asia;
India;
Mumbai;
South Korea;
Italy;
United States
- March 2021
- Article
Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Past research has focused on understanding the characteristics of work that are fully virtual or fully collocated. The present study seeks to expand our understanding of team work by studying knowledge workers' experiences as they were suddenly forced to transition to...
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- 2021
- Book
Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere
By: Tsedal Neeley
The rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by COVID-19 have accelerated the transition to remote working, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in just weeks, leaving managers and employees scrambling to adjust. This massive...
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- March 2021
- Article
Provider Teams Outperform Solo Providers in Managing Chronic Diseases and Could Improve the Value of Care
Scope-of-practice regulations, including prescribing limits and supervision requirements, may influence the propensity of providers to form care teams. Therefore, policy makers need to understand the effect of both team-based care and provider type on clinical...
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- February 2021
- Tutorial
What are Agile Teams?
By: Tsedal Neeley
This video explores the elements that constitute agile teams. From its history in the "Agile Manifesto," this philosophy for organizational behavior prioritizes working software over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and...
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- January 2021
- Case
Leading Culture Change at SEB
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Elena Corsi
The Risk organization at SEB, a leading Nordic financial services group founded in 1856, undertook a culture change program focused on psychological safety, empathic listening, and strategic framing. The program enabled risk organization teams to make progress on...
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- January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
TCS: From Physical Offices to Borderless Work
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Malini Sen
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a multinational IT services company headquartered in Mumbai, is a subsidiary of one of India’s most reputed conglomerates, the Tata Group. In 2020, TCS was valued at $144.7 billion, the highest for any company in the IT sector,...
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- January–February 2021
- Article
How to Help (Without Micromanaging)
By: Colin M. Fisher, Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer
Extensive research shows that when employees get hands-on managerial support, they perform better than when they’re left to their own devices, but unnecessary or unwanted help can be demoralizing and counterproductive. So how do you intervene constructively? The...
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- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A): Streamlining a Turnaround
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Nancy Boghossian Staples
Facing a significant decline in revenues in 2016, David Gwilliam, Head of Transformation at PepsiCo UK introduced a new way of working (“Responsive Working”), which encompasses a set of work practices and some new team structures. The work practices comprise a set of...
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- November 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Marilyn Morgan Westner and Reza Satchu
Wes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada’s leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a series of social injustices—specifically the death of George Floyd in police custody—Hall...
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- November 2020
- Case
Axis My India
By: Ananth Raman, Ann Winslow and Kairavi Dey
Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI) as a printing and publishing company in 1998. In 2013, AMI expanded into consumer research and election forecasting. Although a relatively unknown entity, AMI predicted several election results accurately. Gupta describes AMI’s...
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- September 2020
- Case
Enabling Teamwork at the Cleveland Clinic
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey
This case examines efforts to foster teamwork within and across work units in the Cleveland Clinic, a large, distributed healthcare delivery organization. With a long history of valuing teamwork since its founding in 1921, the Clinic had taken dramatic steps to further...
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- September 2020
- Case
Blackstone: Crocs Investment
By: Victoria Ivashina, John D. Dionne and Terrence Shu
This case follows Prakash Melwani (HBS MBA '86), CIO of Blackstone's Private Equity Group, and his teams’ investment in the footwear company Crocs. Instead of a traditional secondary offering, Crocs opted for a unique deal structure by taking Blackstone's cash in a...
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- September 2020
- Case
Hot Wheels: Launching The Mixed Play Experience
By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., had developed an entirely new “mixed play” product experience that blended familiar Hot Wheels play in the physical world with breakthrough play in...
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- September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Hot Wheels at Mattel: Reinventing the Wheel
By: Elie Ofek, Andres Terech and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2017, Chris Down, Global Brand General Manager for Hot Wheels, and his team from the Advanced Play Group within Mattel, Inc., were considering which innovation path to pursue in order to "future proof" the Hot Wheels franchise going forward. Hot Wheels was the...
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- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Student Success at Georgia State University (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African...
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Keywords:
Education;
Higher Education;
Learning;
Curriculum and Courses;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Income;
Race;
Leadership;
Goals and Objectives;
Measurement and Metrics;
Operations;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome or Result;
Performance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation;
Service Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Issues;
Wealth and Poverty;
Equality and Inequality;
Technology;
Technology Platform;
Education Industry;
Atlanta
- September 2020
- Case
Tulsa Remote: Moving Talent to Middle America
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Emma Salomon
Tulsa Remote sought to attract a diverse group of remote workers to the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma—and was willing to put its money where its mouth was, offering $10,000 and a range of wraparound services for its program participants. After a successful pilot year, which...
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- 2020
- Chapter
Emotions and Emotion Regulation
By: Svenja A. Wolf, Amit Goldenberg and Mickaël Campo
This is the first textbook to explore and explain the contribution of social groups and social identity to all aspects of sports and exercise—from leadership, motivation and communication to mental health, teamwork, and fan behaviour.
In the context of increasing...
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