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- 20 Dec 2013
- News
Learning a lesson from venture capital
- 30 Apr 2024
- Video
What Managers Can Learn from Jazz Improvisation
- 10 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship
hear back from a partner, you must be excruciatingly patient. Make sure to keep your eye on the long-term vision and know that it will take time and persistence to get there. 6. Enjoy the wins and learn... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- September 1999
- Background Note
Learning from Projects: Note on Conducting a Postmortem Analysis
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Steven Sinofsky
Describes how firms can learn from projects through postmortem analysis. Focuses on the step-by-step process of preparing and running a postmortem meeting as it is done at Microsoft and other software developers. View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Projects; Software; Information Technology Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Steven Sinofsky. "Learning from Projects: Note on Conducting a Postmortem Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-021, September 1999.
- 05 Dec 2017
- News
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
- June 2019
- Article
Learning From Mum: Cross-National Evidence Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Mayra Ruiz Castro and Elizabeth Long Lingo
Analyses relying on two international surveys from over 100,000 men and women across 29 countries explore the relationship between maternal employment and adult daughters’ and sons’ employment and domestic outcomes. In the employment sphere, adult daughters, but not... View Details
Keywords: Female Labor Force Participation; Gender Attitudes; Household Labor; Maternal Employment; Social Class; Social Learning Theory; Social Mobility; Employment; Gender; Attitudes; Household; Labor; Learning; Outcome or Result
McGinn, Kathleen L., Mayra Ruiz Castro, and Elizabeth Long Lingo. "Learning From Mum: Cross-National Evidence Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes." Work, Employment and Society 33, no. 3 (June 2019): 374–400.
- Article
Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change
By: A. Tucker and A. Edmondson
The importance of hospitals learning from their failures hardly needs to be stated. Not only are matters of life and death at stake on a daily basis, but also an increasing number of U.S. hospitals are operating in the red. This article reports on in-depth qualitative... View Details
Tucker, A., and A. Edmondson. "Why Hospitals Don't Learn from Failures: Organizational and Psychological Dynamics That Inhibit System Change." California Management Review 45, no. 2 (Winter 2003). (Winner of Accenture Award For the article published in the California Management Review that has made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.)
- Research Summary
Innovating in Energy: Learning from High-Potential Ventures
My work at HBS has always focused on high-potential ventures. Most recently, these have been professionally financed start-ups and buyouts in newly emerging energy and cleantech businesses. These ventures tend to be based on innovative insights into technology and... View Details
- August 2006
- Article
What Negotiators Can Learn from Improv Comedy
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Lakshmi Balachandra
Wheeler, Michael A., and Lakshmi Balachandra. "What Negotiators Can Learn from Improv Comedy." Negotiation 9, no. 8 (August 2006): 1–3.
- Feb 02 2017
- Testimonial
Learn from the Best in the World
- 11 Apr 2011
- News
What we should be learning from the recent economic crises
- January 2022 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Expanding the Culture of Learning at Kraft Heinz
By: Ashley V. Whillans and Carolyn Watson
The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) was an American food company formed in 2015 by the merger of Kraft Foods Group, Inc and the H.J. Heinz Company. The company sold food products like Heinz Ketchup, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Kool-Aid, and Philadelphia cream cheese to supermarkets,... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Culture; Work Culture; Workplace Practices; Mergers; Mergers and Acquisitions; Competitive Advantage; Human Capital; Training; Performance Evaluation; Growth and Development; Personal Development and Career; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Food and Beverage Industry
Whillans, Ashley V., and Carolyn Watson. "Expanding the Culture of Learning at Kraft Heinz." Harvard Business School Case 922-036, January 2022. (Revised November 2023.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Importance of Work Context in Organizational Learning from Error
By: Lucy H. MacPhail and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper examines the implications of work context for learning from errors in organizations. Prior research has shown that attitudes and behaviors related to error vary between groups within organizations but has not investigated or theorized the ways in which... View Details
- Nov 06 2018
- Testimonial
Learning From a Wealth of Corporate Board Experience
- 06 Feb 2020
- News
What We Learned From Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 06 Apr 2016
- Webinars: Career
Pitching to Venture Capitalists? Learn from an Expert
Are you pitching--or getting ready to pitch--a new business idea? Sounds easy, but it is complicated and tricky. Join Ray Rothrock (MBA 1988), Partner Emeritus at Venrock, as he shares lessons from his more than 25 years of experience in the venture capital business... View Details
- October 1999
- Article
What Netscape Learned from Cross-platform Software Development
By: M. A. Cusumano and D. B. Yoffie
Cusumano, M. A., and D. B. Yoffie. "What Netscape Learned from Cross-platform Software Development." Communications of the ACM 42, no. 10 (October 1999): 72–78.
- August 2020
- Article
Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities: Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr and Rajshree Agarwal
The use of machine learning (ML) for productivity in the knowledge economy requires considerations of important biases that may arise from ML predictions. We define a new source of bias related to incompleteness in real time inputs, which may result from strategic... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Evan Starr, and Rajshree Agarwal. "Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities: Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation." Strategic Management Journal 41, no. 8 (August 2020): 1381–1411.
- 01 Sep 2021
- News
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
- 22 Aug 2011
- News