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- June 2012
- Article
The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control
Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second largest mobile phone factory in the world, located in China, I theorize and test the implications of transparent organizational design on workers' productivity and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Organizational Learning; Operational Control; Organizational Performance; Chinese Manufacturing; Field Experiment; Rights; Interpersonal Communication; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Performance Productivity; Boundaries; Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Manufacturing Industry; China
Bernstein, Ethan S. "The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control." Administrative Science Quarterly 57, no. 2 (June 2012): 181–216.
- April 2011
- Article
Strategies for Learning from Failure
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Many executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)--and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author, a professor at Harvard Business School, thinks both beliefs are misguided. In organizational life, she says, some... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Failure; Opportunities
Edmondson, Amy C. "Strategies for Learning from Failure." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011).
- Research Summary
Experiential Learning and Knowledge Mentors
Dorothy Leonard’s research on innovation and knowledge transfer has always emphasized learning by doing. During the past several years, she has been exploring how organizations can foster faster skills learning. While there are generational differences in... View Details
- April 2011
- Article
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
Gino, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011): 68–74.
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
they tend to remain silent, fearful that speaking up could put their careers at risk. “A CEO might be trying to execute this corporate strategy and everybody in the organization knows it’s off the rails, but no one wants to be the bearer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
conducted without a heavily defensive mood—inhibiting the desirable spirit of mutual learning and inquiry between the parties. One of the critical roles of a leader of any given group is to facilitate open-minded relations with other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 2011
- Chapter
The Contribution of Teams to Organizational Learning
By: Kathryn S. Roloff, Anita W. Woolley and Amy C. Edmondson
Organizational learning theorists have proposed that teams play a critical role in organizational learning (Senge, 1990; Edmondson, 2002). Indeed, as organizations become increasingly more global, teams are formed to leverage knowledge, to increase efficiency, and to... View Details
Roloff, Kathryn S., Anita W. Woolley, and Amy C. Edmondson. "The Contribution of Teams to Organizational Learning." In Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management. 2nd ed. Edited by M. Easterby-Smith and M. Lyles, 249–272. London: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
capital campaign and expansion of the nonprofit organization’s programs, which include science education, character development, and summer learning opportunities for 6,500 local adolescents annually. A key initiative is a multiyear... View Details
- Web
Lifelong Learning - Alumni
Andrew Ng discusses what organizations have learned about generative AI in the last year 891 01 Dec 2023 HBS Alumni Bulletin Rounding the Bend New technologies offer new hope for a circular economy in the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school but when her first child, Katie, struggled with learning disabilities, the private equity strategist turned her attention to finding the best View Details
- June 2021
- Case
Acelero Learning
By: Mario Small, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen
In November 2020, Henry Wilde, co-founder and CEO of Acelero, Inc., must decide whether to change his company’s program model for delivering early childhood education to low-income children. One of the only for-profit Head Start providers in the United States, Acelero... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Operations; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
Small, Mario, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein, and Katherine Chen. "Acelero Learning." Harvard Business School Case 921-029, June 2021.
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Figure 1. Senior management is the organizing mechanism and voice of the employees. The family council and family assembly are the organizing mechanisms and voice of the family. The board of directors is the... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 13 Sep 2016
- Webinars: Career
How Organizations Are Using LinkedIn to Find Talent
Organizations are increasingly using LinkedIn to find talent. Do you know what they are looking for? LinkedIns Bradley Lawrence (MBA 2013) will share key insights into understanding how organizations are utilizing LinkedIn. After this webinar, you... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
I am interested in the individual experience of learning in organizational settings, particularly how employees learn to learn from the challenging work they do.
I am currently researching the role of reflection for raising awareness of learning opportunities that... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- What Do You Think?
Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?
(Jay Yuno/iStock) Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson’s recent thought-provoking book, Right Kind of Wrong, makes a strong case for the notion that we often learn a lot from failure—and in some cases, perhaps even more than we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2013
- News
Should MBAs Learn to Code?
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
A Passion for Organization
Cheryl Vance (PLDA 18, 2014) is founder and principal of the VictorLee Group, a management consulting firm in Virginia. In this video, she talks about applying her knowledge of organizations and productivity to her efforts as a volunteer.... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. The foundation’s signature initiative is its Distinguished Scientist Award. Over the last... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Myers studies the ways people learn from their own—and others’—experiences at work, with a particular emphasis on learning in health care organizations and emergency medical contexts. Though his interest is in individual-level learning, he focuses in... View Details
Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning Organizations; Learning By Doing; Health Care Industry; Innovation; Identity Construction; Medical Error; Knowledge Development; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Work; Learning; Leadership Development; Knowledge Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States; Singapore; Asia
- June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
Buurtzorg
By: Ethan Bernstein, Tatiana Sandino, Joost Minnaar and Annelena Lobb
As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Best Practices; Best Practices Transfer; Flat Organization; Self-Managed Organizations; Self-Managed Teams; Organizational Learning; Knowledge Management; Learning; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources; Communication; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Networks; Health Industry; Netherlands; Europe
Bernstein, Ethan, Tatiana Sandino, Joost Minnaar, and Annelena Lobb. "Buurtzorg." Harvard Business School Case 122-101, June 2022. (Revised January 2023.)