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- 08 Jan 2012
- News
Progress Principle: You're More Important Than You Think
- 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...
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Nanda, Ashish. "Learning from Scandals: Responsibility of Professional Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 905-037, October 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
- 07 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?
grasp how finance and accounting are used as tools in the business world, I absolutely think that the case method is the way to go. I must admit that I surprised myself in just how much I actually learned...
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- 2007
- Working Paper
What Have We Learned From Market Design?
By: Alvin E. Roth
This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e. they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in...
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Roth, Alvin E. "What Have We Learned From Market Design?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13530, October 2007.
- 30 Aug 2011
- News
Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit
- 15 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from My Success and From Others’ Failure: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- April 2011
- Case
Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning
By: Linda A. Hill and Heather Beckham
Kay Sunderland is an account director at Attain Learning Inc., a business training solutions company. In January 2011, one of Attain's most important clients, Juan Nunez of Gramen Equipment Company, contacts Sunderland with a request: Nunez would like Attain content...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Interpersonal Relations;
Personal Strategy & Style;
Creativity;
Conflict;
Interdepartmental Relations;
Talent Management;
Management Style;
Interpersonal Communication;
Talent and Talent Management;
Relationships;
Conflict and Resolution;
Communication Strategy;
Power and Influence;
Service Industry
Hill, Linda A., and Heather Beckham. "Kay Sunderland: Making the Grade at Attain Learning." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-289, April 2011.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning and Wage Dispersion
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is presented in which people base their labor search strategy on the average wage and the average unemployment duration of people who belong to their peer group. It is shown that, if the distribution of wage offers is not stationary so lower wage offers tend to...
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Rotemberg, Julio J. "Prominent Job Advertisements, Group Learning and Wage Dispersion." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18638, December 2012.
- Web
Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Promoting excellence and innovation in case method teaching What is the case method? The case method places students in the role of decision-maker, confronting real-world business situations complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in real life....
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- 27 Dec 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Team Learning Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance
- 22 Aug 2011
- News
Now Learn - Entrepreneurship at Harvard
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground
popular adaptive learning companies, specializing in math .Across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, DreamBox serves nearly 3 million students and 120,000 teachers. Today, the company is announcing $130 million in growth equity funding from...
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- 03 Aug 2016
- News
How Self-Managed Companies Help People Learn on the Job
- April 2011
- Article
What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?
What can one legitimately learn-analytically and/or prescriptively-from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such cases compiled by Stanton...
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Keywords:
Learning;
International Relations;
History;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Negotiation Process;
Conflict and Resolution
Sebenius, James K. "What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?" Negotiation Journal 27, no. 2 (April 2011).
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Educating children through inquiry-based learning
Kim Frock (MBA 1987) cofounded the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, to provide an academically challenging, inquiry-based learning environment for children in grades 6 through 8. The independent school...
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- 04 Oct 2017
- Book
Five Leaders Forged in Crisis, and What We Can Learn From Them
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Hybrid Learning the HBS Way
HBS’s hybrid classrooms feature state-of-the-art equipment and technology that enables the professor to see and interact with in-person and remote students at the same time. HBS developed unique hybrid spaces with leading-edge technology to provide a safe and engaging...
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- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
Trelstad: Hold virtual fundraising events and engage loyal donors Organizations need to think quickly and practically about cash flows and revise their scenarios for getting through the crisis and then a less optimistic 2021 scenario....
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by Danielle Kost
- May 18, 2020
- Other Article
Media Bias? But Not What You Think It Is
The media are often accused of political bias. But news outlets reflect many political beliefs in a fragmented media environment. However, an almost across-the-board bias is how news media talk about digital business, and the pandemic has exacerbated that bias, which...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Media Bias? But Not What You Think It Is." Medium (May 18, 2020).