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- 1994
- Book
Best Practices Kakumei: Seikou Kigyou ni Manabe (Best Practices Revolution: Learning from Successful Companies)
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
- March 1992 (Revised May 1992)
- Teaching Note
Manufacturing Learning Laboratory at Digital Equipment Corp. (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note
By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Alistair D. Williamson
- October 3, 2014
- Guest Column
Finding the Positives in Your Failures
By: Christopher G. Myers
Myers, Christopher G. "Finding the Positives in Your Failures." Inc.com (October 3, 2014).
- Article
The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation.
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson
Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Hackathon;
Autonomy;
Control;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management
Lifshitz - Assaf, Hila, Sarah Lebovitz, and Lior Zalmanson. "The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation." MIT Sloan Management Review 60, no. 2 (Winter 2019): 1–6.
- November 2015
- Article
Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery
By: Bryan M. Burt, Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki and John G. Byrne
OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures.
METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database,... View Details
METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database,... View Details
Keywords:
Service Delivery;
Value;
Health Care and Treatment;
Experience and Expertise;
Health Industry
Burt, Bryan M., Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki, and John G. Byrne. "Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery." Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 150, no. 5 (November 2015): 1061–1067.
- January 1995
- Article
Learning in Extensive-Form Games: Experimental Data and Simple Dynamic Models in the Intermediate Term
By: A. E. Roth and I. Erev
Roth, A. E., and I. Erev. "Learning in Extensive-Form Games: Experimental Data and Simple Dynamic Models in the Intermediate Term." Special Issue on Nobel Symposium. Games and Economic Behavior 8 (January 1995): 164–212.
- Article
Robust and Stable Black Box Explanations
By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Nino Arsov and Osbert Bastani
As machine learning black boxes are increasingly being deployed in real-world applications, there
has been a growing interest in developing post hoc explanations that summarize the behaviors
of these black boxes. However, existing algorithms for generating such...
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Lakkaraju, Himabindu, Nino Arsov, and Osbert Bastani. "Robust and Stable Black Box Explanations." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 37th (2020): 5628–5638. (Published in PMLR, Vol. 119.)
- June 2007
- Article
Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units
By: A. L. Tucker, I. Nembhard and A. C. Edmondson
Tucker, A. L., I. Nembhard, and A. C. Edmondson. "Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units." Management Science 53, no. 6 (June 2007): 894–907.
- 29 Jul 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: The Case for Pluralistic Risk Management
Keywords:
by Anette Mikes & Amram Migdal
- February 2003
- Teaching Note
Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-603-062).
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- Web
Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001) - Recruiting
thoughts, feelings, and any memories that might inform my choices. What I discovered, or rediscovered, about myself during this time of reflection led me to realize that my next move should be to start my...
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- September 2009
- Article
A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement
By: Matthew Carty MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow and Dennis Orgill
Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and mortality, are insufficient to improve the... View Details
Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Health Care and Treatment;
Medical Specialties;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Improvement
Carty, Matthew, MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow, and Dennis Orgill. "A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 124, no. 3 (September 2009): 706–714.
- 1999
- Chapter
On the Role of Reinforcement Learning in Experimental Games: The Cognitive Game Theory Approach
By: Ido Erev and A. E. Roth
- 11 Jul 2018
- Podcast
Ep 8: What can businesses learn from the present crisis of trust in tech?
Professor Sandra Sucher, an HBS faculty member who has studied trust in business for over a decade, discusses “techlash.” With customers, employees, and governments reacting to transgressions by some of the world’s largest companies, the importance of trust is more...
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- February 2019
- Case
Miroglio Fashion (A)
By: Sunil Gupta and David Lane
Francesco Cavarero, chief information officer of Miroglio Fashion, Italy’s third-largest retailer of women’s apparel, was trying to bring analytical rigor to the company’s forecasting and inventory management decisions. But fashion is inherently hard to predict. Can...
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Keywords:
Inventory Management;
Demand Forecasting;
Artificial Intelligence;
Machine Learning;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Operations;
Management;
Decision Making;
AI and Machine Learning;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Fashion Industry
Gupta, Sunil, and David Lane. "Miroglio Fashion (A)." Harvard Business School Case 519-053, February 2019.
- Article
Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy
By: Edward Glaeser, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers and Michael Luca
The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire consultants, but a cheaper alternative is to...
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Keywords:
User-generated Content;
Operations;
Tournaments;
Policy-making;
Machine Learning;
Online Platforms;
Analytics and Data Science;
Mathematical Methods;
City;
Infrastructure;
Business Processes;
Government and Politics
Glaeser, Edward, Andrew Hillis, Scott Duke Kominers, and Michael Luca. "Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 114–118.
- November 2022
- Supplement
What are the lessons learned from the e-bike business for other Bosch divisions
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon. "What are the lessons learned from the e-bike business for other Bosch divisions." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 723-858, November 2022.
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries