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March 2008
Article

Is Yours a Learning Organization?

By: David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson and Francesca Gino

This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An organization with a strong learning culture faces the unpredictable deftly.... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Surveys; Leading Change; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Culture

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16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

business model for small independents is often elusive. So when a crisis of the magnitude of the COVID-19 global pandemic forces restaurants to close, and their revenue drops to zero overnight, things get particularly dire. Unlike the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

23 Sep 2012
News

Flotation market sails on choppy waters

10 May 2011
News

The Twitter Gender Gap

12 Feb 2015
Video

Authentic Leadership and the Defense of Marriage Act

Web

Alumni - Global

Alumni 90,662 alumni in 173 countries Harvard Business School’s unparalleled alumni network extends throughout the world, with a third of our MBA alumni living outside the U.S. Our graduates are leaders in an exceptionally broad range of... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

By: Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Yang

Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic growth of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Economic Growth; China

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15 Jul 2020
News

A COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

Keywords: COVID-19

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

iPhoto Jeff Bezos, visiting a Harvard Business School classroom 21 years ago, told skeptical students his goal with Amazon.com was to "sell everything to everyone everywhere." Even dog food? students wondered, which would... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

30 Oct 2006
Other Presentation

Value-Based Competition in Health Care

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

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23 Jan 2019
News

Worm Capital Q&A With Clayton Christensen On Innovation -- And His New Book "The Prosperity Paradox"

10 Jan 2018
News

Chief executive Oprah? How Winfrey has fared as a businesswoman since ending her talk show

17 Mar 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

31 Jul 2024
Video

Ed Freeman: Can capitalism adapt to serve a changing world?

Article

The Learning Effects of Monitoring

By: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein and F. Asis Martinez-Jerez

This paper investigates the relationship between monitoring, decision making, and learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Business or Company Management; Decision Making; Employees; Research; Resignation and Termination; Rights; Business Units; Governance Controls; Performance; Motivation and Incentives

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09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Podcast with: Richard TedlowInterviewer: James AisnerRunning Time: 29 min., 09 sec.Transcript My name is Jim Aisner and I am Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. This is the first in a series of podcasts for the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

March 2018
Case

IBM: Watson and the Internet of Things

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

IBM has recently launched a business unit devoted to the Internet of Things. The group's leadership team needs to figure out the best way to quickly scale its business in a fragmented and nascent market. View Details