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- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
combination of forward-looking coursework, unique team activities with a diverse global network, and a capstone project that applies the program’s learnings. 6 months, 5-6 hrs/week Apply by November 3 $6,500 Credential Business Essentials Interpret View Details
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
the problem you wish to solve that they’ll provide insight into who they are. Surveys. Surveys are difficult to design and often capture random and subjective information instead of getting real data to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
according to different local strategies for economic prosperity and political stability. In particular, the author links fiscal relations and economic bases to property rights regimes, finding that more "open" cities are subject... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk," namely the risk that a government will discriminatorily change the laws, regulations, or contracts governing an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Business & Environment
carbon market. Mike and Duncan join host Brian Kenny to unpack how Calyx Global evaluates carbon credit quality, how the company maintains independence in a space vulnerable to conflicts of interest, and how data and technology—from... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in the research literature. There... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Tools & Training - Alumni
they’ve learned in Harvard ManageMentor, or engage in entirely new subjects such as Authenticity, Big Data and Analytics, Design Thinking and Emotional Intelligence. The content in HMM Spark is curated and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
the role-- and you write about this very movingly in the book, the the role of faith as a core component of happiness. That's obviously a little bit of a third rail subject because people think that you might be talking about a specific... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
Winter 2017 MIT Sloan Management Review Why Big Data Isn't Enough By: Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract—There is a growing belief that sophisticated algorithms can explore huge databases and find relationships independent of any... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Middle East & North Africa - Global
region and the important role played by family businesses and the entrepreneurial spirit shaping local economies. The Center has had the honor of turning some of the powerful stories into HBS case studies, and the videos feature a distinguished lineup of speakers,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
way to measure the sometimes subjective qualities of what makes a company socially responsible. For that, the researchers relied on survey measures from the World Competitiveness Yearbook, published by IMD business school in Switzerland,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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California - Global
marketing software with a 40-year legacy of innovation and successful adaptation, recognized GenAI as both an opportunity and a threat to its core business. Many creative professionals, a critical Adobe customer segment, expressed deep concerns over GenAI models... View Details
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
soliciting feedback from its most loyal and vocal customers” As impressive as that accomplishment was, 1,000 customers is hardly enough to ensure long-run success. For that, these companies had to scale up dramatically, from 1,000 to over 1 million, which is the View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker and may yet turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know
monkeybusinessimages How to handle religion in the workplace is a contentious and litigious issue that many business leaders struggle with. The subject is so third-rail hot that even Harvard Business School has devoted relatively few... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
is subject to isomorphic pressures, which cannot be completely explained by industry affiliation or peer group membership. Inter-firm professional network connections, such as board interlocks and compensation consultants, provide means... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research Resources - Doctoral
large-scale statistical databases, consumer panel research, behavioral experiments, and theoretical and empirical models. Support is available for methodological and statistical consultation, data procurement and analysis, programming,... View Details