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Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, holding a chaired position dedicated to human interactions in successful enterprises. She has been consistently ranked among Thinkers50's top management thinkers since 2011, achieving #1 status in 2021 and 2023.
Her research focuses on psychological safety, teaming, and organizational learning, with significant contributions to understanding how organizations learn from failure. Key publications include The Fearless Organization (2019) and Right Kind of Wrong (2023), the latter winning the Financial Times and Schroders Best Business Book of the Year award. Her work spans organizational behavior, healthcare management, and innovation science, with articles in top journals like Administrative Science Quarterly and Harvard Business Review.
Recent research trends show increasing focus on psychological safety dynamics in constrained environments, cross-boundary teaming, and the science of intelligent failure. Her 15 most recent articles (2021-2025) demonstrate expanding applications from healthcare to general management contexts, with growing emphasis on temporal dimensions of team learning and data-driven decision pitfalls.
Major awards include:
- Thinkers50 #1 Management Thinker (2021, 2023)
- Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award (2019)
- Financial Times Best Business Book Award (2023)
- Accenture Award for California Management Review (2003)
Edmondson advises on organizational transformation through numerous Harvard Business School cases, including culture change initiatives at Microsoft, LEGO, and Cleveland Clinic. Her research has secured funding for studies on teaming in pharmaceutical development, smart city projects, and healthcare innovation. Current work examines psychological safety erosion in new hires and cross-boundary team dynamics in complex innovation projects.
