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      Unpacking Team Diversity: An Integrative Multi-Level Model of Cross-Boundary Teaming
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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...  View Details
      Keywords: Slam Teams; Turnaround; Groups and Teams; Employees; Training; Decision Making; Planning; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Nancy Boghossian Staples. "Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A): Streamlining a Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 621-076, December 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
      • 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...  View Details
      Keywords: Teamwork; Teaming; Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Groups and Teams; Health Industry; United States
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Michaela J. Kerrissey. "Enabling Teamwork at the Cleveland Clinic." Harvard Business School Case 621-040, September 2020.
      • Article

      Frame Flexibility: The Role of Cognitive and Emotional Framing in Innovation Adoption by Incumbent Firms

      By: Ryan Raffaelli, Mary Ann Glynn and Michael Tushman
      Why do incumbent firms frequently reject nonincremental innovations? Beyond technical, structural, or economic factors, we propose an additional factor: the degree of the top management team's (TMT) frame flexibility, i.e., their capability to cognitively expand an...  View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Adoption; Cognition; Framing; Emotional Resonance; Incumbent Inertia; Innovation and Invention; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management
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      Raffaelli, Ryan, Mary Ann Glynn, and Michael Tushman. "Frame Flexibility: The Role of Cognitive and Emotional Framing in Innovation Adoption by Incumbent Firms." Strategic Management Journal 40, no. 7 (July 2019): 1013–1039.
      • December 2018
      • Article

      Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
      Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies reveal that teaming across knowledge...  View Details
      Keywords: Teams; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Performance Effectiveness
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations." Special Issue on Creating High Performance Teamwork in Organizations. Human Resource Management Review 28, no. 4 (December 2018): 347–360.
      • 2017
      • Book

      Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
      Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways...  View Details
      Keywords: Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Complexity
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership. Emerald Group Publishing, 2017.
      • September 2017
      • Case

      Harvard Men's Soccer

      By: Alison Wood Brooks and Katherine Coffman
      In the fall of 2016, the Crimson, Harvard’s undergraduate newspaper, broke a story revealing that the 2012 Harvard Men’s Soccer team had produced a sexually explicit “scouting report” about the Women’s Soccer team. The story generated national headlines and...  View Details
      Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Gender; Social Issues
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      Brooks, Alison Wood, and Katherine Coffman. "Harvard Men's Soccer." Harvard Business School Case 918-011, September 2017.
      • February 2017
      • Module Note

      Leading Global Teams

      By: Tsedal Neeley
      This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global teams that must work together across national boundaries and toward a common goal. Students will learn to diagnose the challenges that global teams often face as well as strategies that...  View Details
      Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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      Neeley, Tsedal. "Leading Global Teams." Harvard Business School Module Note 417-073, February 2017.
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
      Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly popular strategy for innovation. Knowledge diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies of practice reveal that teaming...  View Details
      Keywords: Teams; Knowledge; Innovation; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-013, August 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
      • 2016
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      Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners

      By: Andy Wu
      We study information aggregation in organizational decision-making for the financing of entrepreneurial ventures. We introduce a formal model of voting where agents face costly tacit information to improve their decision quality. Equilibrium outcomes suggest a...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Angel Investors; Organization Design; Voting; Group Decision-making; Information; Strategy; Organizations; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Financing and Loans
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      Wu, Andy. "Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2016): 189–194.
      • January 2016
      • Case

      Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
      This case study examines the open innovation journey at Fujitsu, a global information and communication technology company. The case ends with the location decision between Tokyo, Japan, downtown San Francisco or Sunnyvale, California, regarding establishing a small...  View Details
      Keywords: Open Innovation; Collaboration; Culture Change; Leadership; Japan; United States; Inter-organizational Relationships; Teaming; Maker Movement; Nascent Industries; Change Management; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Emerging Markets; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Sunnyvale; Tokyo; San Francisco
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Open Innovation at Fujitsu (A)." Harvard Business School Case 616-034, January 2016.
      • October 2014
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      The Transparency Trap

      By: Ethan Bernstein
      To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But less transparent work environments can yield more-transparent employees. Employees perform better when they can try out new ideas and...  View Details
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      Bernstein, Ethan. "The Transparency Trap." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 10 (October 2014): 58–66.
      • July–August 2013
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      Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue

      By: Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson and Herman B. Leonard
      Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the probability of getting them out alive at less than 1%. Yet, after spending a record 69 days underground, all 33 were hoisted up to...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Learning; Mining; Mining Industry; Chile
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      Rashid, Faaiza, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard. "Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 113–119.
      • April 2012
      • Article

      Teamwork on the Fly

      By: Amy C. Edmondson
      In a fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, traditional teams aren't always practical. Instead, companies increasingly employ teaming: gathering experts in temporary groups to solve problems they may be encountering for the first and only time. This...  View Details
      Keywords: Teaming; Cross-functional Integration; Organizational Learning; Groups and Teams; Experience and Expertise; Interpersonal Communication; Projects; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competency and Skills; Learning
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      Edmondson, Amy C. "Teamwork on the Fly." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012).
      • 2010
      • Book

      Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

      By: Robert L. Simons
      To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
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      Simons, Robert L. Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution. Harvard Business Review Press, 2010.
      • October 2010
      • Journal Article

      Organizational Designs and Innovation Streams

      By: Michael Tushman, Wendy K. Smith, Robert Chapman Wood, George Westerman and Charles A. O'Reilly III
      This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability to explore as well as exploit. We operationalize exploitation and exploration in terms of innovation streams—incremental innovation in existing products as...  View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement
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      Tushman, Michael, Wendy K. Smith, Robert Chapman Wood, George Westerman, and Charles A. O'Reilly III. "Organizational Designs and Innovation Streams." Industrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 5 (October 2010): 1331–1366. (doi: 10.1093/icc/dtq040.)
      • 2009
      • Chapter

      Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail
      We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of...  View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation
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      Edmondson, Amy C., Kate Roloff, and Lucy H. MacPhail. "Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition." In Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by Laura M. Roberts and Jane E. Dutton, 311–332. Psychology Press, 2009.
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others

      By: Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate
      This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of the work. We present data from an exploratory...  View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Behavior
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      Soule, Deborah L., and Lynda M. Applegate. "Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-084, January 2009.
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard
      The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest quality product in...  View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Management Skills; Product Development; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Social and Collaborative Networks
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      Edmondson, Amy C., and Ingrid M. Nembhard. "Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-046, January 2008.
      • Sep 2007 - 2007
      • Conference Presentation

      Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams

      By: James R. Dillon, Shikhar Sarin and Amy C. Edmondson
      Boundary spanning has been shown in prior research to enhance innovativeness and performance of product development teams. In this study, we examine team conditions that foster boundary spanning behavior. We analyze survey data from 207 members of 54 cross-functional...  View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Boundaries; Leadership Style; Product; Complexity; Integration; Power and Influence
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      Dillon, James R., Shikhar Sarin, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Antecedents of Boundary Spanning in Cross-functional NPD Teams." Paper presented at the Product Development and Management Association Annual Global Conference on Product Innovation Management, Orlando, FL, September 2007.
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      Interorganizational Ties and Business Group Boundaries: Evidence from an Emerging Economy

      By: Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin
      Keywords: Organizations; Groups and Teams; Boundaries; Information; Economy
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      Khanna, Tarun, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Interorganizational Ties and Business Group Boundaries: Evidence from an Emerging Economy." Organization Science 17, no. 3 (May–June 2006): 333–352.
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