Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2016
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Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation

Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) is founder and executive director of the Global Future Education Foundation and Institute, which is promoting new educations goals for 21st-century learners. In this video, he explains the basis of his ideas for real-world, accomplishment-based... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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What HBS Learned from West Point

If talk of knowing, doing, and being sounds a little touchy-feely, take heart. By embracing the educational framework, HBS is taking a page directly out of the US Military Academy’s playbook on leadership development. MBA Class of 1958 Senior Lecturer Scott Snook, a US... View Details

Keywords: military education; National Security and International Affairs; Government

Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets

Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details

21 Jan 2009
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Harvard Business School Students Immersed in Experiential Learning

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Advancing Personalization: How to Experiment, Learn & Optimize

By: Aurelie Lemmens, Jason M.T. Roos, Sebastian Gabel, Eva Ascarza, Hernan Bruno, Elea McDonnell Feit, Brett Gordon, Ayelet Israeli, Carl F. Mela and Oded Netzer

Personalization has become the heartbeat of modern marketing. Advances in causal inference and machine learning enable companies to understand how the same marketing action can impact the choices of individual customers differently. This article provides an academic... View Details

Keywords: Personalization; Targeting; Experiments; Observational Studies; Policy Implementation; Policy Evaluation; Customization and Personalization; Marketing Strategy; AI and Machine Learning

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8 Aug 2004
Conference Presentation

Team Learning and the Racial Diversity-Performance Link

By: R. Ely and David A. Thomas

Keywords: Learning; Groups and Teams; Ethnicity; Performance

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01 Mar 2012
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1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners

Market Research: Forty-two MBA students traveled to Accra, Ghana, where this team spent time at a local market. The world became HBS students’ classroom in January as the entire first-year class spent a week learning hands-on what it... View Details

Keywords: Professor Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2015
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Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities

Moss believes part of its appeal may be the timeliness of revisiting the country's founding principles at a period when many today see government as dysfunctional. But he points to another element—the experience of learning history... View Details

08 Dec 2006
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When Learning and Performance are at Odds: Confronting the Tension

Keywords: by Sara J. Singer & Amy C. Edmondson

11 Apr 2011
News

What we should be learning from the recent economic crises

20 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability and addressing the... View Details

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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Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Rema Hanna, Sendhil Mullainathan and Joshua Schwartzstein

We consider a model of technological learning under which people "learn through noticing": they choose which input dimensions to attend to and subsequently learn about from available data. Using this model, we show how people with a great deal of experience may... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Learning

21 Jan 2021
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Great Negotiators: Learning from Critical Moments

By: James K. Sebenius

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Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization

By: Robert H. Hayes, Steven C. Wheelwright and Kim B. Clark

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January 7, 2012
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What Minnesota can Learn from Germany

By: Bill George

Keywords: Leadership

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20 Dec 2013
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Learning a lesson from venture capital

25 Aug 2011
News

An Opportunity to Learn Something New

Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade

2011
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The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error

By: Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper examines the implications of work context for learning from errors in organizations. Prior research has shown that attitudes and behaviors related to error vary between groups within organizations but has not investigated or theorized the ways in which... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Learning; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Failure; Performance Improvement; Opportunities; Complexity

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