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April 2011
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What Can We Learn from 'Great Negotiations'?

What can one legitimately learn-analytically and/or prescriptively-from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such cases compiled by Stanton... View Details

Keywords: Learning; International Relations; History; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Process; Conflict and Resolution

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15 Oct 2009
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Japan can learn from Silicon Valley

January 7, 2012
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What Minnesota Can Learn from Germany

By: Bill George

Keywords: Learning; Minnesota; Germany

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12 Jan 2017
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What Cancer Researchers Can Learn from Direct-to-Consumer Companies

September 2012
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Learning Agility: Many Questions, a Few Answers, and a Path Forward

By: D. Scott DeRue, Susan J. Ashford and Christopher G. Myers

This article responds to and extends the commentaries offered in response to our focal article on learning agility. After summarizing the basic themes in the commentaries, we use this response to clarify points that were unclear in our original article and push back on... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning

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02 Jun 2021
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What Corporate Boards Can Learn from Boeing’s Mistakes

2020
Guest Column

Learning from Lehman: Lessons for Today

By: Laura Comstock, Michael Holland and Peter Tufano

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Financial Instruments

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Sep 20 2018
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Learning From Managers in Other Industries

June 2005
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Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve

By: M. D. Cannon and A. C. Edmondson

Keywords: Failure; Learning; Organizations; Labor; Innovation and Invention; Performance Improvement

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04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

entrepreneurship, I took time over the previous semester to speak with and learn from the numerous Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiRs) at the HBS Rock Center. The EiRs are experienced founders and mentors who... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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What HBS Learned from West Point

how-to skills and the self-knowledge needed to be an effective leader. In short, business schools have excelled at teaching about leadership from a fundamentally analytical perspective. But there are things that every leader should be... View Details

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

October 2002 (Revised August 2007)
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Entrepreneurial Marketing: Learning from High-Potential Ventures

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III

Describes entrepreneurial marketing as both a mind-set and a process. Draws on some 30 business field cases and some 300 student projects that provide insight into what managers do in high-potential settings. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Managerial Roles; Marketing

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August 1983
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Learning from a Consulting Experience (B)

By: Arthur N. Turner

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Consulting Industry

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August 1983
Case

Learning from a Consulting Experience (A)

By: Arthur N. Turner

Keywords: Consulting Industry

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22 Jul 2015
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Learning from Starbucks on job creation

20 Oct 2015
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What Government Can Learn From Baseball

Keywords: Government

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