Learning To Learn - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

beholder. You either learn what it is from your parents or you'll never get it." Instead, professors use theory and examples to teach future business leaders why value is important and how View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

huge loss of capital. And, in fact, a lot of knowledge was lost in that transition. Many people had to figure out new things, had to learn how to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2013
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers

Questions To Be Answered What's the biggest obstacle to excellence in service organizations? Should I do what my customers tell me to do? How can I understand my customers... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

assumes that some people get it right while others get it wrong and that it is better to imitate those that ‘get it right’ than to try things for yourself, learn from mistakes,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

everyone. Organizations should keep those pros who keep up with constant learning and upgrading ...." Paul McDowall points out that "Any organization can immediately identify at least a handful of people whose departure would... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

professor Wasserman to learn more about his research.New Business: Tell us about your research. Noam Wasserman: My research focuses on founder frustrations in entrepreneurial firms, with a particular... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

practitioners and academicians alike. As I started doing further studies with countries and states, the cluster component became a significant stream in my research. In this new chapter, I try to draw together almost a decade of further... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

examine what causes these processes to occasionally lose momentum. EE: What are some other highlights of the next session of BCAO? Upton: Participants will learn which decisions have View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

Drugstore.com can capture in a database all of the current test information available on a particular drug, so that a person can learn about any potential side effects. EE: Are there any non-high-tech cases in the DIS course? Nolan: Oh,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

Professor of Business Administration: Don't just mourn Nelson Mandela. Learn to be Nelson Mandela. He was the consummate turnaround leader. As the first democratically-elected president of post-apartheid... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

mediocrity is the desired outcome. Also, in America failure is acceptable. Learning from failure can be an important element of future success. These entrepreneurial values are not necessarily present to the... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

Summing Up The verdict of those responding to the column on the threat of the "disruptive technology" represented by online distance learning for in-class, onsite MBA programs is in. In your... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the race heats up heading towards... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

Black: Career Development in the New Economy," said newly minted MBAs should be able to learn quickly, handle problems, and build relationships with coworkers over workplace divisions. The panelists... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

panic selling caused an unprecedented early shutdown of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Horie, who denies wrongdoing, was arrested on January 23. What went wrong at Livedoor, and what are we to learn from its... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

highest levels of their industry and ask them to learn the basics of another language that you want to make the basis of communication in your company? Aren't they going View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

universities today boast superb scholars and among the world's best students. But these students are also forced to sit through courses in Party ideology. They learn a simplified book version of the history... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

value the respective boards claim will soon become a matter of leadership: How the integration is conceived and led. Having studied and consulted to numerous integration teams, I learned the M&A variant... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

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