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Office: E62-434
Tel: (617) 253-0568
Fax: (617) 253-2660
E-mail: ancona@mit.edu
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Name: Colette Boudreau
Tel: (617) 253-0575
E-mail: cmb67@mit.edu
Area
Behavioral and Policy Sciences
Deborah Ancona
Seley Distinguished Professor of Management
Professor of Organization Studies
Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, a Professor of Organization Studies, and the Director of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Her pioneering research into how successful teams operate has highlighted the critical importance of managing outside, as well as inside, the team’s boundary. This research directly led to the concept of X-Teams as a vehicle for driving innovation within large organizations …