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Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
How does an entrepreneur, aspiring manager, or CEO become a master of strategy? In this book, we argue that everyone can learn from three of the greatest strategist of modern time, Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs, who also built three of the most valuable... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations
acknowledging failure in an effort to solve problems becomes engrained in the culture, and employees become more resilient. Organizations that are unafraid to admit failure can learn from mistakes and move... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- March 2002
- Article
Leading Organizational Learning in Health Care
By: J. S. Carroll and A. C. Edmondson
Carroll, J. S., and A. C. Edmondson. "Leading Organizational Learning in Health Care." Quality & Safety in Health Care 11, no. 1 (March 2002): 51–56.
- Web
Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog
entrepreneurs, managers and project members, or soon-to-be-returned to the workplace MBAs to build trust in themselves? Building Trusted Organizations is designed to answer these questions. You will learn... View Details
Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services
The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
What Corporate Boards Can Learn from Boeing’s Mistakes
- November – December 2009
- Article
Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company
By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom
Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs; Learning; Failure; Business Strategy; Organizations; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Design; Sweden
Beer, Michael, and Magnus Finnstrom. "Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company." Leadership in Action (November–December 2009).
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
second module of the three-part course, sends all 900-plus first-year MBAs across the globe in January to work on projects with partner organizations in emerging markets. “The logistical challenges are enormous,” says course head Tony... View Details
- June 1996 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
McKinsey & Co.: Managing Knowledge and Learning
Describes the development of McKinsey & Co. as a worldwide management consulting firm from 1926 to 1996. In particular, it focuses on the way in which McKinsey has developed structures, systems, processes, and practices to help it develop, transfer, and disseminate... View Details
Keywords: Management; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Advantage; Global Range; Knowledge Dissemination; Business Processes; Consulting Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "McKinsey & Co.: Managing Knowledge and Learning." Harvard Business School Case 396-357, June 1996. (Revised January 2000.)
- 2012
- Working Paper
Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services
By: Jonathan R. Clark, Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased outsourcing.... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Knowledge Acquisition; Volume; Performance Productivity; Health Industry
Clark, Jonathan R., Robert S. Huckman, and Bradley R. Staats. "Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-057, December 2010. (Revised September 2011, January 2013. NBER Working Paper Series, No. w18723, January 2013)
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
organizations use AARs selectively given the significant amount of resources required to do them well. AARs should also focus on areas that are mission critical for the greatest payoff. They offer four fundamentals of the AAR process: the... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 2003
- Class Lecture
Creating Competitive Advantage Through Organizational Learning
By: David A. Garvin
Garvin, David A. "Creating Competitive Advantage Through Organizational Learning." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2003. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture.)
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
happening in terms of management practices in their hospital. What I see in my studies mapping the adoption of basic management practices across hospitals is a wide dispersion: There are some points of excellence where organizations... View Details
- 21 Jan 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from Customers in Outsourcing: Individual and Organizational Effects
- 26 Feb 2024
- News
Making Workplaces Safer Through Machine Learning
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
preparations; publicly advertised medicinal, pharmaceutical and dentifrice preparations; food products; household products; cosmetics and toilet preparations; and chemicals, organic colors and pigments, dye stuffs and intermediates."... View Details
- April 2025
- Background Note
Climate Change Adaptation with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
By: Michael W. Toffel and Nabig Chaudhry
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have emerged as powerful tools to address climate change. This note summarizes a wide range of the uses of AI/ML to drive climate change adaptation and resilience, the measures organizations and governments are... View Details
- 16 Jun 2021
- Interview
Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
"Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations." No. 51. Scaling Culture (podcast), June 16, 2021.