Edmund P. Learned - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2023
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Developing Moral Muscle in a Literature-based Business Ethics Course

By: Inge M. Brokerhof, Sandra J. Sucher, P. Matthijs Bal, Frank Hakemulder, Paul G. W. Jansen and Omar N. Solinger

Moral subjectivity (e.g., reflexivity, perspective-taking) is a necessary condition for moral development. However, widely used approaches to business ethics education, rooted in conceptualizations of ethical development as objective and quantifiable, often neglect... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Business Education; Growth and Development; Teaching

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

results? What were our actual results? What caused our results? And what will we sustain or improve?” Admittedly, the corporate world has seen less success with AARs, despite the popularity of the practice, according to Marilyn Darling, Charles Parry, and Joseph Moore... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

lens of a surgical team implementing a revolutionary new procedure called MICS (minimally invasive cardiac surgery), professors Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M. Bohmer, and Gary P. Pisano have looked beyond organizational factors to provide a... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories By: Lazzeri, Francesca, and Gary View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

John Macomber (@cleantechcities) is a senior lecturer of business administration in the Finance Unit Gary P. Pisano: In-person meetings will be less important All organizations will learn that they can... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

2017, pp. 50-60. Milton Friedman, A Friedman Doctrine—The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits, The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970, p. 17. Sumantra Ghoshal, Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

strenuously projecting an image of pre-2020 normalcy and “business as usual” can be daunting and lead employees to hide their own struggles. To learn more, read What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog Boris Groysberg, Richard View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

being born globally—chasing opportunities created by distance, learning to manage faraway operations, and hunting for the planet's best manufacturing locations, brightest talent, most willing investors, and most profitable customers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

particular case in point. What had Metro International learned from experiences elsewhere on the globe and would they allow the company to make the Spanish unit profitable? What strategy should the Spanish country manager adopt? Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November–December 2022
Article

Can AI Really Help You Sell?: It Can, Depending on When and How You Implement It

By: Jim Dickie, Boris Groysberg, Benson P. Shapiro and Barry Trailer

Many salespeople today are struggling; only 57% of them make their annual quotas, surveys show. One problem is that buying processes have evolved faster than selling processes, and buyers today can access a wide range of online resources that let them evaluate products... View Details

Keywords: Sales; AI and Machine Learning; Customers

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10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business School Professor John View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

PublicationsTechnology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders Authors:Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Academy of Management Learning & Education 8, no.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

forces. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 Repetition of Interaction and Learning: An Experimental Analysis Authors:Bradley R. Staats, Francesca Gino, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

Working PapersCollaborative Architectures for Innovation Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Abstract Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

leadership versus transactional leadership. We also wondered to what extent there were different insights depending on the unit of analysis with which one began. We knew it was essential to also invite people who were reflective, thoughtful practitioners in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

March 2023 (Revised March 2025)
Case

Accelerating AI Adoption in the U.S. Air Force

By: Maria P. Roche and Alexander Farrow

In August 2022, the Pentagon tasked U.S. Air Force Captain Victor Lopez to launch a new office for AFWERX, an Air Force innovation unit that leveraged commercial developers and military talent to acquire advanced technologies. This task was particularly arduous because... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; AI and Machine Learning; Adoption; Technology Adoption; United States

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05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1590245 Cases & Course MaterialsBook Publishing in 2010 Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 711-419 Legacy book publishers wrangled with e-book... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin GinsburghHarvard Business School Case 210-024 A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in Chennai, India. The case provides... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace