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April 1976 (Revised April 2002)
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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

Keywords: Cases; Learning

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24 Apr 2014
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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... View Details

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

2008
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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

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Aug 21 2017
Testimonial

Learn with Peers Who Are Smart and Experienced

07 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Can You Learn Finance through the Case Method?

come out of the prematriculation preparatory work feeling like an expert, I did feel fully confident entering the RC finance and accounting classroom. I also found over the course of the semester that the key 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

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Feb 22 2017
Testimonial

Learning How Board Members Think

Aug 04 2016
Short Film

Alumni Status and Lifelong Learning

July – August 2008
Article

The Competitive Imperative of Learning

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Keywords: Competition; Learning

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Article

A Learning Perspective on Intraorganizational Knowledge Spill-Ins

By: James Oldroyd and Ranjay Gulati

This exploratory study examines the role of intraorganizational knowledge spill-ins in the process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Perspective; Knowledge; Business Units; Organizations

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21 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

saw the cultural differences while developing marketing concepts for Ellie Care, a technology platform based in Buenos Aires providing health and emergency-response monitoring that enables seniors 65+ to live more independently. Early on,... View Details

Nov 13 2018
Testimonial

Lessons Learned on Female Leadership

January 10, 2011
Column

Learning from Sustainable Community Experiments

By: Amy Edmondson, Tiona Zuzul and Robert Eccles

Keywords: Learning; Civil Society or Community

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July–August 2018
Article

Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods

By: Frank Nagle

As the economy becomes more information based, firms are increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by... View Details

Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Learning; Competitive Advantage

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07 Aug 2018
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DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

friction”—being hard on ideas, but soft on people. "In a start-up, you don’t know what tomorrow will bring, so you have to be constantly learning and be adaptive with your colleagues. You might think you... View Details

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Interpretability and Explainability in Machine Learning

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju

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