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- November 2013
- Article
Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
By: D. KC, B. Staats and F. Gino
Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Health Care; Knowledge Work; Attribution Theory; Quality; Success; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Learning; Health Industry
KC, D., B. Staats, and F. Gino. "Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 59, no. 11 (November 2013): 2435–2449.
- June 2011
- Article
Stepping into the Unknown: How Companies Learn through Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes
Risk management can add value through the continuous questioning of existing controls, strategies, and scenarios. The article outlines a new framework for risk management predicated on the notion of organizational learning, and illustrates it by a case study of a... View Details
- 12 Nov 2020
- News
What We Can Learn About Unity from Hostile Takeovers
- Web
Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. The Organizational Behavior Teaching Society Dedicated to innovative teaching and learning in the organizational and... View Details
- 09 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure
- 2008
- Working Paper
Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard
The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest quality product in... View Details
- January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Ivy Academy: Blended Learning in Downingtown Area School District
By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg
In 2015, Downingtown Area School District (DASD), a suburban school district near Philadelphia, entered its second year implementing Ivy Academy, a blended learning program, in its two traditional high schools. Superintendent Larry Mussoline, having for several years... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Philadelphia
Kim, John J-H, and Daniel Goldberg. "Ivy Academy: Blended Learning in Downingtown Area School District." Harvard Business School Case 316-144, January 2016. (Revised November 2018.)
- Web
Online Learning Track Programs | HBS Online
foundation for practically applying high-integrity, humanistic organizational leadership and management, which is invaluable in today’s rapidly-changing, technology-focused world. Elena Bowes Certificate of Specialization in Leadership... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
Healthcare Roundtables (VRTs) are available to members in real-time during the live speaking events or available after the events as on-demand recordings. Jon Puz (MBA 2008) Jon Puz (MBA 2008) “The HBSHAA VRT series was launched based on demand from alumni near and far... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
model fits the practice of teleradiology. The article, titled "Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services," was written by Huckman; Jonathan R. Clark (HBS PhDHP '10), Pennsylvania... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
interactions. So, how well can hospitals adopt new technologies? And is this a blueprint for organizational learning and technology adoption in general? Sara Grant: Why did you choose a hospital setting to... View Details
- January–February 2018
- Article
The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture: How to Manage the Eight Critical Elements of Organizational Life
By: Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
Executives are often confounded by culture, because much of it is anchored in unspoken behaviors, mindsets, and social patterns. But when properly managed, culture can help them achieve change and build organizations that will thrive in even the most trying times. In... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Groysberg, Boris, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng. "The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture: How to Manage the Eight Critical Elements of Organizational Life." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 44–52.
- 30 May 2019
- News
Lessons All Entrepreneurs Can Learn From the Shop Local Movement
- 15 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning from My Success and From Others’ Failure: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
involuntary loss of knowledge in an organization. The type of organizational forgetting occurring now is creating more problems. Instead of relying on the lessons learned from two years of COVID-19 crisis... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 2015
- Conference Presentation
Managing Failure in Pioneering Industries: Virgin Galactic, Legitimacy, and the 2014 Test Flight Crash
By: Luciana Silvestri and Anil Doshi
Keywords: Failure Tolerance; Innovation; Nascent Industries; Legitimacy; Cognition; Organizational Learning; Organizations; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Performance; Learning; Failure; Cognition and Thinking; Innovation and Invention; Aerospace Industry
Silvestri, Luciana, and Anil Doshi. "Managing Failure in Pioneering Industries: Virgin Galactic, Legitimacy, and the 2014 Test Flight Crash." Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society Annual International Conference, Denver, CO, 2015.
- July – August 2011
- Article
Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units
By: I. M. Nembhard and A. L. Tucker
Dynamic service settings-characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)-play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Performance Improvement; Quality; Groups and Teams; Cooperation; Health Industry
Nembhard, I. M., and A. L. Tucker. "Deliberate Learning to Improve Performance in Dynamic Service Settings: Evidence from Hospital Intensive Care Units." Organization Science 22, no. 4 (July–August 2011): 907–922.
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
combatants have unusual means at their disposal, regardless of size. The comments raise several questions: What are the chances that Microsoft can defy traditional market dynamics? What kinds of strategic and organizational decisions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 1990
- Chapter
Measurement, Coordination and Learning in a Multi-plant Network
By: W. B. Chew, K. B. Clark and T. Bresnahan
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Organizational Structure; Networks; Business Model; Measurement and Metrics; Cooperation
Chew, W. B., K. B. Clark, and T. Bresnahan. "Measurement, Coordination and Learning in a Multi-plant Network." In Measures for Manufacturing Excellence, edited by Robert S. Kaplan. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1990.