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- 31 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences
Keywords: by Eric D. Werker
- Spring 2014
- Article
Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning
By: Jill Avery
Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills. Rigorous class participation is essential to achieving learning objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment... View Details
Avery, Jill. "Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning." Journal for Advancement of Marketing Education 22, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 1–15.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration
By: Anita L. Tucker
Operational failures persist in hospitals, in part because employees work around them rather than attempt to prevent recurrence. Drawing on a process improvement tool—the Andon cord—we examine three work design components that may foster improvement-oriented behaviors:... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Process Improvement; Organizational Learning; Behavioral Operations; Prosocial Behavior; Experiments; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior; Performance Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry
Tucker, Anita L. "Work Design Drivers of Organizational Learning about Operational Failures: A Laboratory Experiment on Medication Administration." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-044, November 2012. (Revised September 2013.)
- March/April 2001
- Article
Organizational Learning in Health Care
By: Richard Bohmer and A. Edmondson
Bohmer, Richard, and A. Edmondson. "Organizational Learning in Health Care." Health Forum Journal (March/April 2001), 32–35.
- 2008
- Chapter
Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological Safety and Learning in Diverse Teams
By: A. Edmondson and Kate Roloff
We review research on psychological safety and team learning to identify core ideas and findings in these closely related literatures and to propose a model in which a negative relationship between team member diversity and team collaboration is moderated by... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Performance Improvement; Learning; Diversity
Edmondson, A., and Kate Roloff. "Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration: Psychological Safety and Learning in Diverse Teams." In Team Effectiveness in Complex Organizations: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches, edited by E. Sales, G. G. Goodwin, and C. S. Burke.Organizational Frontiers Series. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008.
- November 1998 (Revised April 1999)
- Background Note
A Note on Case Learning
This guide, written for students, is intended to help in case preparation and in understanding case learning. View Details
Corey, E. Raymond. "A Note on Case Learning." Harvard Business School Background Note 899-105, November 1998. (Revised April 1999.)
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to View Details
- April 2017
- Teaching Note
Yushan Bicycles: Learning to Ride Abroad (Brief Case)
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Paul S. Myers
Teaching Note for HBS No. 917-539. View Details
- April 1976 (Revised April 2002)
- Background Note
Learning by the Case Method
Helps students fully capitalize on the case method. Succinctly introduces the benefits, format, and process while offering lots of "how-to" advice. Widely used as an introductory handout for executive, MBA, and undergraduate courses. Describes how case discussion... View Details
Hammond, John S. "Learning by the Case Method." Harvard Business School Background Note 376-241, April 1976. (Revised April 2002.)
- October 2022
- Article
Underestimating Counterparts' Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations
By: Hanne K. Collins, Charles A. Dorison, Francesca Gino and Julia A. Minson
Given the many contexts in which people have difficulty engaging with views that disagree with their own— from political discussions to workplace conflicts—it is critical to understand how conflictual conversations can be improved. Whereas previous work has focused on... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Conflict and Resolution; Values and Beliefs; Learning; Perception
Collins, Hanne K., Charles A. Dorison, Francesca Gino, and Julia A. Minson. "Underestimating Counterparts' Learning Goals Impairs Conflictual Conversations." Psychological Science 33, no. 10 (October 2022): 1732–1752.
- July – August 2008
- Article
The Competitive Imperative of Learning
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Edmondson, Amy C. "The Competitive Imperative of Learning." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 60–67.
- November–December 1997
- Article
Making Strategy: Learning by Doing
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Christensen, Clayton M. "Making Strategy: Learning by Doing." Harvard Business Review 75, no. 6 (November–December 1997).
- January 10, 2011
- Column
Learning from Sustainable Community Experiments
By: Amy Edmondson, Tiona Zuzul and Robert Eccles
Edmondson, Amy, Tiona Zuzul, and Robert Eccles. "Learning from Sustainable Community Experiments." Blog: Early Ecocities. Economist: The Ideas Economy (January 10, 2011).
- April 2000
- Teaching Note
Types of Learning Processes TN
By: David A. Garvin and Jeffrey Berger
Teaching Note for (9-300-124). Not listed on product. View Details
Keywords: Learning
- 19 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning to Manage: A Field Experiment in the Indian Startup Ecosystem
- September 2021
- Article
Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' R&D Failures
I analyze project continuation decisions where firms may resolve uncertainty through news about competitors' research and development (R&D) failures, as well as through their own results. I examine the trade-offs and interactions between product-market competition and... View Details
Krieger, Joshua L. "Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' R&D Failures." Management Science 67, no. 9 (September 2021).
- June 10, 2022
- Article
What Top Executives Can Learn from Junior Employees
Having reached the pinnacle of their careers, many top executives think their learning days are over. Their role, as they see it, is to make pronouncements, define strategy and impart to others the benefits of their vast experience—that is, to tell the employees below... View Details
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "What Top Executives Can Learn from Junior Employees." Wall Street Journal (online) (June 10, 2022).
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
be rediscovered in each managerial generation (about every six years) as a fundamental way to enable new growth. But each generation seems to have forgotten or never learned... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning
As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to aid decision makers in high-stakes settings such as healthcare and criminal justice, it is important to ensure that the decision makers correctly understand and consequent trust the functionality of these... View Details
- October 2004 (Revised March 2006)
- Background Note
Learning from Scandals: Responsibility of Professional Organizations
By: Ashish Nanda
This case comments on the responsibility of professional organizations to respond openly to public accusations of wrongdoing by its members. It briefly relates the circumstances of the sexual abuse scandal in the Boston archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church and the... View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Learning from Scandals: Responsibility of Professional Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 905-037, October 2004. (Revised March 2006.)