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  • 03 Oct 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Yanbo Wang, Boston University

    Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

    Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
    • 28 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 28, 2010

    individuals and groups in organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-024.pdf Using What We Know: Turning Organizational Knowledge into Team Performance Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Melissa A. Valentine, and Amy C.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Competition the Cure for Healthcare

    Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
    • Research Summary

    Dissertation - Social Structure and Mechanisms of Collective Production:Evidence from Wikipedia

    Andreea's dissertation research examines social networks in the setting of collective production,  defined as collective action oriented towards production of collective goods - goods available for consumption by all members of a group whenever they... View Details

    • Summer 2011
    • Article

    Context, Agency, and Identity: The Indian Fashion Industry and Traditional Indian Crafts

    By: Mukti Khaire
    Identity is an important resource for firms, since it is a critical precursor of an important strategic resource-legitimacy. However, identities of new firms in new industries are typically inchoate, since they cannot be classified within pre-existing cognitive... View Details
    Keywords: History; Decision Making; Identity; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Fashion Industry; France; Italy; United Kingdom; India
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    • Program

    Developing Yourself as a Leader—Virtual

    Summary As high-performing emerging leaders develop their leadership style, it is imperative to have the skillset and knowledge to gain influence and increase impact across an organization. This virtual program will arm you with a number... View Details
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model

    By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
    This paper is the sixth of six pre-course reading assignments for an experimental leadership course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Curriculum and Courses; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Attitudes; Behavior; United States; Netherlands; Texas
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    • 02 Jun 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: June 2

    Pontal, PPPs could be replicated throughout the SFV, transforming the historically poor region into an agribusiness hub, as well as being a model for the rest of the world. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510042-PDF-ENG Cognizant 2.0: Embedding... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

    At HBS, I learned how to be decisive with limited information, and that being decisive requires also being a team player, allowing the opinions and knowledge of others to fill my own experience gaps while being able to persuasively... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 10 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

    the kinds of companies I hoped to work for, so I decided to hold out for HBS. The wait proved worthwhile. At HBS, I learned how to be decisive with limited information, and that being decisive requires also being a team player, allowing the opinions and View Details
    • February 2011
    • Article

    Understanding Analysts’ Use and Under-use of Stock Returns and Other Analysts’ Forecasts when Forecasting Earnings

    By: Michael B. Clement, Jeffrey Hales and Yanfeng Xue
    We investigate analysts' use of stock returns and other analysts' forecast revisions in revising their own forecasts after an earnings announcement. We find that analysts respond more strongly to these signals when the signals are more informative about future earnings... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Content Moderation with Opaque Policies

    By: Scott Duke Kominers and Jesse M. Shapiro
    A sender sends a signal about a state to a receiver who takes an action that determines a payoff. A moderator can block some or all of the sender's signal before it reaches the receiver. When the moderator's policy is transparent to the receiver, the moderator can... View Details
    Keywords: Market Design; Communication; Knowledge Sharing; Information Infrastructure; Media
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    • 09 Sep 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009

    Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch, Joseph L. Bower, Clayton S. Rose & Suraj Srinivasan
    • Web

    Curriculum - MBA

    studies presented by Harvard faculty and faculty from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Cell Fate Decisions in Development and Disease This quarter course offers an in-depth examination of current knowledge regarding... View Details
    • Web

    Required Curriculum - MBA

    will gain An understanding of foundational data science concepts and techniques that can inform business insights and decisions. Exposure to R statistical programming language to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data. Knowledge of how... View Details
    • 11 May 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Building a Better Board

    mechanics that add very little to the competitive position or underlying value of the enterprise." But while board members are now taking their jobs more seriously, their input is not necessarily as helpful or effective as it could be, Kaufman says. He recently... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Teaching Interest

    Data Science for Managers

    • Served as a teaching fellow; assisted MBA students with classroom coding exercises. 
    • Developed course materials, including new case studies, technical notes, and code notebooks students used to analzye case data. 
    • Developed interactive web... View Details
    • 24 Jan 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

    risked the 737’s original type-certification, Boeing opted for a major software change that was not disclosed to the FAA or described in its pilot’s manual. The flaws in the software design that took flight control away from the pilots without their View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Air Transportation; Transportation; Aerospace
    • 05 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

    Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need Today How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make Feedback or ideas... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding