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  • April 2023
  • Article

Learning Down to Train Up: Mentors Are More Effective When They Value Insights from Below

By: Ting Zhang, Dan Wang and Adam D. Galinsky
Although mentorship is vital for individual success, potential mentors often view it as a costly burden. To understand what motivates mentors to overcome this barrier and more fully engage with their mentees, we introduce a new construct, learning direction, which... View Details
Keywords: Mentoring; Learning Direction; Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Leadership Development
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Zhang, Ting, Dan Wang, and Adam D. Galinsky. "Learning Down to Train Up: Mentors Are More Effective When They Value Insights from Below." Academy of Management Journal 66, no. 2 (April 2023): 604–637.
  • 2003
  • Conference Presentation

Learning in Alliances: New Methodologies, New Directions

By: Ranjay Gulati
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Gulati, Ranjay. "Learning in Alliances: New Methodologies, New Directions." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2003.
  • September 2012
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Learning Agility: In Search of Conceptual Clarity and Theoretical Grounding

By: D. Scott DeRue, Susan J. Ashford and Christopher G. Myers
As organizations become more complex and dynamic, individuals' ability to learn from experience becomes more important. Recently, the concept of learning agility has attracted considerable attention from human resource professionals and consultants interested in... View Details
Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning
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DeRue, D. Scott, Susan J. Ashford, and Christopher G. Myers. "Learning Agility: In Search of Conceptual Clarity and Theoretical Grounding." Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice 5, no. 3 (September 2012): 258–279.
  • February 2014
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Learning by Supplying

By: Juan Alcacer and Joanne Oxley
Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations; Learning
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Alcacer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley. "Learning by Supplying." Strategic Management Journal 35, no. 2 (February 2014): 204–223.
  • 2012
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Learning by Supplying

By: Juan Alcacer and Joanne Oxley
Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Supply Chain; Competitive Advantage; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competency and Skills; Relationships; Telecommunications Industry
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Alcacer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley. "Learning by Supplying." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-093, April 2012.

    Learning by Supplying

    Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain competitive advantage: learning by doing, learning by exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention... View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Dynamic Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning

    By: Liangzong Ma, Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
    Reinforcement learning (RL) offers potential for optimizing sequences of customer interactions by modeling the relationships between customer states, company actions, and long-term value. However, its practical implementation often faces significant challenges.... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Policy; Deep Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning; Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment; Latent Variable Models; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Foreign Direct Investment; Analytics and Data Science
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    Ma, Liangzong, Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza, and Ayelet Israeli. "Dynamic Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-037, February 2025.
    • March 2010
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    First, Get Your Feet Wet: The Effects of Learning from Direct and Indirect Experience on Team Creativity

    By: F. Gino, L. Argote, E. Miron-Spektor and G. Todorova
    Keywords: Learning; Groups and Teams
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    Gino, F., L. Argote, E. Miron-Spektor, and G. Todorova. "First, Get Your Feet Wet: The Effects of Learning from Direct and Indirect Experience on Team Creativity." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 111, no. 2 (March 2010): 102–115.
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    Making Machine Learning Models Fair

    By: Himabindu Lakkaraju
    The goal of this research direction is to ensure that the machine learning models we build and deploy do not discriminate against individuals from minority groups. View Details
    • 2011
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    Organizational Errors: Directions for Future Research

    By: Paul S. Goodman, Rangaraj Ramanujam, John S. Carroll and Amy C. Edmondson
    The goal of this paper is to promote research about organizational errors—i.e., the actions of multiple organizational participants that deviate from organizationally specified rules and can potentially result in adverse organizational outcomes. To that end, we advance... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Organizations; Interests; Managerial Roles; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Practices and Processes; Learning
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    Goodman, Paul S., Rangaraj Ramanujam, John S. Carroll, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Organizational Errors: Directions for Future Research." Research in Organizational Behavior 31 (2011): 151–176.
    • June 2012
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    The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein
    Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second largest mobile phone factory in the world, located in China, I theorize and test the implications of transparent organizational design on workers' productivity and organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Organizational Learning; Operational Control; Organizational Performance; Chinese Manufacturing; Field Experiment; Rights; Interpersonal Communication; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Performance Productivity; Boundaries; Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Manufacturing Industry; China
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    Bernstein, Ethan S. "The Transparency Paradox: A Role for Privacy in Organizational Learning and Operational Control." Administrative Science Quarterly 57, no. 2 (June 2012): 181–216.
    • August 1995 (Revised July 1997)
    • Case

    Passion for Learning

    Describes the challenges confronting a recent HBS graduate who has started a direct-mail toy company. The entrepreneur must evaluate industry conditions in both toys and direct mail, and determine whether he has developed a viable business concept. Presents detailed... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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    McGahan, Anita M., Dale Coxe, Israel Yellen Ganot, and Greg Keller. "Passion for Learning." Harvard Business School Case 796-057, August 1995. (Revised July 1997.)
    • 11 Apr 2014
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    Learning By Thinking: How Reflection Improves Performance

    Keywords: by Giada Di Stefano, Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano & Bradley Staats
    • June 2021
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    Acelero Learning

    By: Mario Small, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen
    In November 2020, Henry Wilde, co-founder and CEO of Acelero, Inc., must decide whether to change his company’s program model for delivering early childhood education to low-income children. One of the only for-profit Head Start providers in the United States, Acelero... View Details
    Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Operations; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    Small, Mario, Kathleen L. McGinn, Amy Klopfenstein, and Katherine Chen. "Acelero Learning." Harvard Business School Case 921-029, June 2021.
    • 12 Feb 2007
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    Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels

    Keywords: by Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton & Thomas Steenburgh; Retail
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    Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity

    By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber and Daniel Yamins
    World models are self-supervised predictive models of how the world evolves. Humans learn world models by curiously exploring their environment, in the process acquiring compact abstractions of high bandwidth sensory inputs, the ability to plan across long temporal... View Details
    Keywords: World Models; Mathematical Methods
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    Kim, Kuno, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber, and Daniel Yamins. "Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 37th (2020).
    • February 2013
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    Learning from Roger Fisher

    By: James K. Sebenius
    Roger Fisher's career and writings not only offer lessons about negotiation but also about how an academic, especially in a professional school such as law or business, can make an important, positive difference in the world. By his relentless engagement in vexing... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Fisher; Dispute Resolution; Bargaining; Negotiation
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    Sebenius, James K. "Learning from Roger Fisher." Harvard Law Review 126, no. 4 (February 2013): 893–898.
    • 01 Apr 1998
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    World Class Learning

    strengthens the value of the HBS learning model for all our students," he notes. Other faculty members agree that diverse classes form the cornerstone of excellent courses. "Diversity of all kinds is the basis upon which dynamic case... View Details
    Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
    • July 2022
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    A Strategic View of Team Learning in Organizations

    By: Jean-François Harvey, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson and Gary P. Pisano
    Research in strategic management and organizational behavior has increasingly focused on understanding how organizations achieve and sustain performance in fast-changing environments. Strategy research suggests that senior managers, through their decisions, influence... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Management; Organization Behavior; Teams; Organizational Capabilities; Groups and Teams; Learning; Management; Decision Making; Performance; Organizational Design
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    Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson, and Gary P. Pisano. "A Strategic View of Team Learning in Organizations." Academy of Management Annals 16, no. 2 (July 2022): 476–507.
    • 29 May 2013
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    Reflections and learnings

    culture and values of a company are to meet with and talk to as many people in as many different roles as possible. You’ll be amazed by how open and thoughtful people are, and you’ll walk away better being able to answer the ultimate question: “do I fit in here?” What... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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