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1994
Conference Presentation

Alliances as Learning Races

By: Ranjay Gulati

January 2014
Technical Note

Learning From Extreme Consumers

By: Jill Avery and Michael Norton

Traditional market research methods focus on understanding the average experiences of average consumers. This focus leads to gaps in our knowledge of consumer behavior and often fails to uncover insights that can drive revolutionary, rather than evolutionary... View Details

Keywords: Market Research; Ethnography; Design Thinking; Innovation; New Product Development; Research; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Innovation and Invention

June 2023
Technical Note

Enhancing Your Contribution to Group Learning in Marketing

By: Jill Avery

How to enhance your contribution to group learning in RC Marketing. Includes information on the learning contract in a case class and the respective roles of instructor and students, how to analyze a marketing case, how to participate in a marketing case discussion,... View Details

Keywords: Marketing

November–December 1997
Article

Making Strategy: Learning by Doing

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Strategy; Learning

Guest Column

Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?

By: Christopher G. Myers

Is your company encouraging employees to share what they know? Too much expertise is going to waste. Many of the things we need to know to be successful—to innovate, collaborate, solve problems, and identify new opportunities—aren't learned simply through schooling,... View Details

Keywords: Vicarious Learning; Learning And Development; Learning Organizations; Knowledge Sharing; Organizations; Employees; Learning

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June 2024
Article

Rationalizing Outcomes: Interdependent Learning in Competitive Markets

By: Anoop R. Menon and Dennis Yao

In this article we use simulation models to explore interdependent learning in competitive markets. Such interactions require attention to both the mental representations held by the management of the focal firm as well as the beliefs of that management about the... View Details

Keywords: Mental Models; Strategic Interactions; Rationalization; Explanation-based View; Competition

31 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker

2012
Chapter

Learning Entrepreneurship Means Living Entrepreneurially

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

June 2013
Supplement

AME Learning Inc. (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe

This is the Video Supplement for AME Learning, Inc., HBS Case #810065. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Angels; Angel Investors; Growth Planning And Management; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Family-owned Business; Careers; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; Publishing Industry; Education Industry; Canada; United States

July – August 2008
Article

The Competitive Imperative of Learning

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Keywords: Competition; Learning

April 2017
Case

Yushan Bicycles: Learning to Ride Abroad

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Paul S. Myers

Yushan Bicycles, one of Taiwan's leading bicycle manufacturers, is pursuing an international expansion strategy by increasing demand for its range of traditional and electric bicycles and shifting its product mix toward higher-margin models sold through specialty... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Conflict Management; Learning; Bicycle Industry; Taiwan; Australia

April 1976 (Revised April 2002)
Background Note

Learning by the Case Method

Helps students fully capitalize on the case method. Succinctly introduces the benefits, format, and process while offering lots of "how-to" advice. Widely used as an introductory handout for executive, MBA, and undergraduate courses. Describes how case discussion... View Details

Keywords: Cases; Learning

November 1998 (Revised April 1999)
Background Note

A Note on Case Learning

This guide, written for students, is intended to help in case preparation and in understanding case learning. View Details

Keywords: Cases; Learning

January 10, 2011
Column

Learning from Sustainable Community Experiments

By: Amy Edmondson, Tiona Zuzul and Robert Eccles

Keywords: Learning; Civil Society or Community

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25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto Thirty years ago, the idea of a machine learning on its own would have stoked the worst kind of sci-fi nightmares about robots taking over the planet. These days, machine learning is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

Article

A Learning Perspective on Intraorganizational Knowledge Spill-Ins

By: James Oldroyd and Ranjay Gulati

This exploratory study examines the role of intraorganizational knowledge spill-ins in the process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Perspective; Knowledge; Business Units; Organizations

May 2022
Article

Embracing Field Studies as a Tool for Learning

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz

Field studies in social psychology tend to focus on validating existing insights. In addition to learning from the laboratory and bringing those insights to the field—which researchers currently favour—we should also conduct field studies that aim to learn in the field... View Details

Keywords: Field Studies; Social Psychology; Learning