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Gary P. Pisano

Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he has been on the faculty since 1988. From 2018-2023, Pisano was Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotion and... View Details

Keywords: biotechnology; electronics; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals

John P. Kotter

John P. Kotter is internationally known and widely regarded as the foremost speaker on the topics of Leadership and Change. His is the premier voice on how the best organizations actually achieve successful transformations. The Konosuke... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Ronald P. Mitchell

Ron Mitchell says his most valuable learning experience at HBS did not take place in the classroom. Rather, it emerged from his work as student government president. "That's where I learned about working... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 1998
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Scott P. Mason Remembered

to the HBS community on the occasion of Mason's death. Mason, who left the School last year to become president and CEO of Investment Technology Group, a New York based financial firm, joined the HBS faculty in 1980. In 1993, he was named the View Details

15 Nov 2021
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Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)

Charles P. Waite Jr. (MBA 1983), who followed in his father’s footsteps to HBS and into venture capital; 11 grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. Learn how you too can give back by including HBS in... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Shari P. Hubert

Dartmouth, Hubert moved up the ranks at Merck and was working as a customer segment manager in employer marketing when she decided to apply to HBS. The most crucial lesson she has learned at HBS is the importance of knowing how to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

self-cleaning rat cages for psychology labs. Learning that pharmaceutical companies use large quantities of rats, they negotiated a deal with him and over the next few months also executed a roll-up strategy that eventually made them the... View Details

25 Aug 2014
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Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

Houghton once again called Weeks into his office, and the younger man braced himself to be demoted by his mentor. But Houghton, like Weeks, believes in learning from failure. “His basic theory was, ‘if you broke it, you fix it,’” says... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend

next two decades, Christensen’s academic career progressed under the influence of a number of distinguished HBS professors and mentors, including Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Richard Meriam, and Edmund P.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

earned him an athletic scholarship at Stanford. “I was never as good a runner as my dad, but I learned a lot from him,” says Johnson, 84, who moves around very well considering he recently had both knees replaced. The teachings were not... View Details

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Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance Award

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Received the 2008 Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance Award (with David P. Norton) from the American Society for Training and Development. View Details

2020
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Team Learning and Superior Firm Performance: A Meso-Level Perspective on Dynamic Capabilities

By: Jean-François Harvey, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson and Gary P. Pisano

This paper proposes a team-based, meso-level perspective on dynamic capabilities. We argue that team-learning routines constitute a critical link between managerial cognition and organization-level processes of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. We draw from the... View Details

Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Innovation; Strategic Change; Teams; Team Learning; Groups and Teams; Learning; Innovation and Invention; Change; Performance

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Learning by Thinking: The Role of Reflection in Individual Learning

By: Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. Staats

It is common wisdom that practice makes perfect. And, in fact, we find evidence that when given a choice between practicing a task and reflecting on their previously accumulated practice, most people opt for the former. We argue in this paper that this preference is... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Practice; Experience and Expertise

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05 Jul 2006
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Learning Tradeoffs in Organizations: Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Improvement to Investigate Learning-Curve Heterogeneity

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, Gary P. Pisano & Ann B. Winslow; Health

01 Oct 2018
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Learning About Leadership

Abigail P. Johnson (MBA 1988) is chairman and CEO of Fidelity Management and Research in Boston and a recipient of the 2018 HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, she reflects on her early lessons in business leadership and on... View Details

Keywords: Finance

03 Oct 2023
What Do You Think?

Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. References: Amy Edmondson, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Atria Books, 2023) Amy C. Edmondson, “Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams,”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 2000
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

advantage of time alumni have already scheduled to be on campus. The committee is not limiting its sights to campus-based programs; it will be researching distance learning opportunities and how to augment current club events, as well as... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)

April 2011
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Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success

By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano

We argue that for a variety of psychological reasons, it is often much harder for leaders and organizations to learn from success than to learn from failure. Success creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Management; Leadership; Failure; Success; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias

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2023
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Evaluation and Learning in R&D Investment

By: Alexander P. Frankel, Joshua L. Krieger, Danielle Li and Dimitris Papanikolaou

We examine the role of spillover learning in shaping the value of exploratory versus incremental R&D. Using data from drug development, we show that novel drug candidates generate more knowledge spillovers than incremental ones. Despite being less likely to reach... View Details

Keywords: Research and Development; Forecasting and Prediction; Valuation; Pharmaceutical Industry

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