Richard hackman actor
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Research
Richard Hackman conducts research on a variety of topics in social and organizational psychology, including team dynamics and performance, leadership effectiveness, and the design of self-managing teams and organizations. He has studied group and organizational factors that shape the behavior and performance of aircraft flightdeck crews; leadership, organizational dynamics, and player engagement in professional symphony and chamber orchestras; and the dynamics and performance of analytic teams in the U.S. intelligence community.
Recent projects include development and validation of methodologies for diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses of work teams, development and testing of a theoretical model of team coaching, a book that explores the special dynamics of senior leadership teams, empirical investigation of the joint impact of neurocognitive processes and social interaction on teamwork, and development of educational materials for use in enhancing the leadership of groups that generate creative products or performances in real time.
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Richard Hackman
IN MEMORIAM
Professor Richard Hackman died of lung cancer on January 8, 2013. Social Psychology Network is maintaining this profile for visitors who wish to learn more about Professor Hackman's work.
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Institution
Harvard University
Current Position
Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of Illinois, 1966
J. Richard Hackman is Edgar Pierce Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at Harvard University. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from MacMurray College and his doctorate in social psychology from the University of Illinois. He taught at Yale for twenty years and then moved to his present position at Harvard.
Professor Hackman teaches and conducts research on a variety of topics in social and organizational psychology, including team performance, leadership effectiveness, and the design of self-managing teams and organizations. His most recent books are Leading Teams: Setting the Stage
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Richard Hackman, Pioneer in Team Psychology, Dies at 72
Over a career spanning nearly half a century, psychology professor J. Richard Hackman garnered widespread esteem and accolades for pioneering the study of team dynamics. But on the side, Hackman quietly devoted countless hours to improving one team in particular—the Harvard women's basketball squad, for which he volunteered as an honorary coach.
Those who knew him say that gestures like these defined Hackman, who died on Jan. 8 in Boston following complications from lung cancer. He was 72.
“He really lived what he was studying," said Alexa S. Fishman ‘13, Hackman's thesis advisee. "He wanted to help and give back to the undergraduate community."
By all accounts, Hackman was a model team player who practiced what he taught. He was at once a dry wit who knew how to lighten the mood with humor, an attentive mentor and colleague skilled at putting others at ease, and a maverick unafraid to voice dissent when the situation demanded it.
According to psychology professor Daniel T. Gilbert, Hackman’s brand of humor “wasn’t stand
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