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Deborah L. Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management and the founder of the MIT Leadership Center. Her pioneering research emphasizes the critical importance of managing teams' boundaries and has led to the development of the concept of X-Teams—vehicles that drive innovation in large organizations. Ancona’s work also explores distributed leadership and aims to develop research-based tools and teaching models that foster creative leadership. She is the author of the book 'X-Teams: Build Teams Lead, Innovate, Succeed' and has published extensively in top academic journals on topics related to team performance and organizational behavior. She holds a BA and MS in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in management from Columbia University. Additionally, Ancona has collaborated as a consultant with various organizations, including Bristol-Myers Squibb and Accenture, and has served on the Board of the Penn Graduate School of Education. Her contributions to education have been recognized with awards such as the Samuel M. Seegal Faculty Prize and the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching.