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- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
giving the mayor partial control of the city's schools was ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge. Luckily, Tuck was unfazed. "The schools still needed to improve, right?" Tuck says by phone. "So...
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- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
Clubs News Clubs News Clubs Welcome Professor Desai The HBS Club of Toronto was one of several alumni clubs to host HBS and HLS Professor Mihir Desai during his 2019 tour for his latest book, How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking...
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Margie Kelley
- Research Summary
Front-Line Organizational Learning
Dr. Tucker uses operations management and organizational learning theory to understand and improve front-line work processes. Specifically, she examines the conditions under which the problem solving routines of front-line workers are likely to result in positive...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
was selected as one of the first faculty team members to teach in the new International Senior Managers Program (ISMP), an eight-week Executive Education course that was offered by the School in Vevey until 1983. “It was a remarkable...
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Julia Hanna
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Improve and Innovate
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by Mark D. Cannon & Amy C. Edmondson
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
co-chaired the conference and co-edited the book, with the idea of capturing as much as possible of the excellent thinking that came out during this event. By "broadband explosion" we mean the...
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Selective Attention and Learning
What do we notice, and how does this affect what we learn? Standard economic models of learning ignore memory by assuming that we remember everything. But there is growing recognition that memory is imperfect. Further, memory imperfections do not stem from limited... View Details
- November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Khanmigo: Revolutionizing Learning with GenAI
By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
Already a leader in the edtech space since its 2008 launch, Khan Academy was now one of the first edtech organizations to embrace generative artificial intelligence ("genAI"). In March 2023, Khan Academy began beta testing Khanmigo, a genAI “guide” and tutor built with...
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Technology Adoption;
Leading Change;
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Education;
AI and Machine Learning;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Education Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
San Francisco
Sahlman, William A., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "Khanmigo: Revolutionizing Learning with GenAI." Harvard Business School Case 824-059, November 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
the other, but that is not always true. The reasons are partly financial—meaning that by managing your operations well you may be able to eliminate wasteful activity, such as unnecessary hospitalizations. And partly I View Details
- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Thinking Outside the Centerfold
Bacardi, Molson Beer, and Coca-Cola, CPB was named Adweek magazine's Agency of the Year for the Southeast region in 2001. Calling it “a year of maturation,” Hicks explained his firm's success by saying, “We uncovered a depth in the agency...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
about which the English language literature is minimal. Related Reading: Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time What do you think about this research? Have you led...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Thinking Inside the Box
purchase, “the brothers got sidetracked by the boxes in which the treats were shipped, and started down a road that led them from Denver and a world of high finance to Baltimore and a life of corrugated cardboard,” the Baltimore Sun...
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- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
the jobs exported are those involving relatively little "ownership" potential and they are replaced by those created by the entrepreneurial, small-business engine that has fueled the U.S. economy...
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by James Heskett
- Blog
When Generations Learn Together
representative. How did the two of you interact while on campus? (BS): We purposefully tried to separate, especially during social time, so we could both enhance our networks and learn from the broad base of attendees. Although not...
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- 12 Mar 2013
- News
New Thinking for China
run institution outside of Shanghai that is modeled after American liberal arts colleges, with classes taught by American professors. “We want students who have the courage to pursue their desires, to know what they really want; that’s...
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- 06 Feb 2020
- News
What We Learned From Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
thinks about competitive strategy. One of the things I enjoy about having conversations with these two is I always learn something. One of the things I dislike about current events shows is when they bring...
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- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
sort of subscription offering, according to a new industry and background note coauthored by Harvard Business School Professor Elie Ofek. And they’re expected to multiply in the years ahead, with subscription billings View Details