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

B. Clark, and perhaps even learning a few things at a faculty presentation. These reunions afford graduates a unique opportunity every five years -- to celebrate the past and glimpse the future. In the days prior to the reunions, the... View Details

Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA 1964)

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

Editor's note: In their new book, Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance, Harvard Business School professors Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih argue that reinvesting in America's manufacturing prowess is... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

fulfillment). Finally, learning and growth synergies would be achieved by rotating experienced professionals to key jobs in the new companies (key staff rotation), by sharing computer systems (common systems versus plan) and knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

06 Feb 2020
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What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

patent activities at Amazon. To do so, we began by looking at Amazon’s patent history using the Derwent Innovation database for the years 1998-2018, which included more than 11,000 published patents in the United States. We learned four... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing strategy.2 Many of the organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

spring 2003
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Learning How and Learning What: Effects of Tacit and Codified Knowledge on Performance Improvement Following Technology Adoption

By: Amy Edmondson, Gary P. Pisano, Richard Bohmer and Ann Winslow

Keywords: Learning; Knowledge; Performance; Technology

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Resources Case Teaching & Learning Case Writing External Links Please find below links to a variety resources on Case Method teaching resources and student-focused resources on learning by the Case Method.... View Details

2023
Working Paper

Learning to Use: Stack Overflow and Technology Adoption

By: Daniel Jay Brown and Maria P. Roche

In this paper, we examine the potential impact of Q&A websites on the adoption of technologies. Using data from Stack Overflow – one of the most popular Q&A websites worldwide – and implementing an instrumental-variable approach, we find that users whose questions... View Details

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Knowledge Sharing

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

with her husband and their two beautiful sons. She has also been known to make extremely decadent chocolate truffles. Contact Informationtabbatello@hbs.edu Nancy Edmunds Teaching & Learning Assistant... View Details

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Disrupted Routines: Team Learning and New Technology Adaptation

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary P. Pisano

Keywords: Learning; Information Technology; Groups and Teams; Disruption

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Africa. Even more broadly, one is left with aggregate statistics that both inform and numb. . . . Living in the United States, we may be shocked to learn that so many people in the world live on less than $2.00 per day, or that a quarter... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

11 Jun 2014
News

Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Keywords: career management; leadership skills; management skills; executive search firms

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

skills in the classroom became well known to students and faculty alike. To actively involve students in the learning process, which is the essence of the discussionmethod teaching he brought to such great heights at HBS, Christensen... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Losing Our Competitive Edge

have their eye on the prime rib too? Once they have learned to manufacture your product, they are in a much better position to move up the food chain into manufacturing and designing more sophisticated components and subsystems and,... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing

1994
Article

Prototyping: A Tool for Rapid Learning in Product Development

By: M. Iansiti and P. Barkan

Keywords: Learning; Product; Research and Development

1995
Working Paper

Learning Before Doing in the Development of New Process Technology

By: Gary P. Pisano

07 Sep 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurs (Co-) Working in Close Proximity: Impacts on Technology Adoption and Startup Performance Outcomes

Keywords: by Maria P. Roche, Alexander Oettl, and Christian Catalini

2008
Article

Learning (Not) to Talk About Race: When Older Children Underperform in Social Categorization

By: Evan P. Apfelbaum, Kristin Pauker, Nalini Ambady, Samuel R. Sommers and Michael I. Norton

The present research identifies an anomaly in sociocognitive development, whereby younger children (8 and 9 years) outperform their older counterparts (10 and 11 years) in a basic categorization task in which the acknowledgment of racial difference facilitates... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Age; Race; Society; Cognition and Thinking