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Vicarious Learning in Organizations

To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Coactive Vicarious Learning: Towards a Relational Theory of Vicarious Learning in Organizations

By: Christopher G. Myers
Vicarious learning—a process of individual belief and behavior change that occurs through being exposed to, and making meaning of, another's experience—has long been recognized as a key driver of individual, team and organizational success. Yet existing perspectives on... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Learning
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    The Power of Vicarious Learning

    “We typically think of learning as something that happens in a classroom or an organizational training context, but the reality is that most of our learning occurs in our day to day interactions and the experiences that we have in the workplace.” View Details
    • 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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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Team Learning and Superior Firm Performance: A Meso-Level Perspective on Dynamic Capabilities

    By: Jean-François Harvey, Henrik Bresman, Amy C. Edmondson and Gary P. Pisano
    This paper proposes a team-based, meso-level perspective on dynamic capabilities. We argue that team-learning routines constitute a critical link between managerial cognition and organization-level processes of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. We draw from the... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Innovation; Strategic Change; Teams; Team Learning; Groups and Teams; Learning; Innovation and Invention; Change; Performance
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    • 08 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

    are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions of... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
    • 08 Sep 2015
    • News

    Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

      Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?

      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, training, or personal experience. Especially for today’s knowledge-based work, much of what... View Details
      • 25 Aug 2015
      • First Look

      First Look Tuesday

      mitigates information costs for buyers and sellers and thus facilitates transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45527 Coactive Vicarious Learning: Towards a Relational... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2015
      • First Look

      December 1, 2015

      2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic of China's attempt to present an... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 18 Jan 2023
      • Blog Post

      Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

      more. We caught up with Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013), an HBS career coach with over 15 years of professional experience in high tech - including big tech, startups, and venture capital—to learn more about career coaching at HBS. Among her... View Details
      • 18 Dec 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

      status of the individual. Then, in a field experiment at an entrepreneurial pitch competition, where pride displays are common and stakes are high, we find suggestive evidence that learning about the failures of a successful entrepreneur... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 18 Aug 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      How New Managers Become Great Managers

      organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a... View Details
      Keywords: by Linda Hill
      • 10 Apr 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: April 10

      rescue of 33 Chilean miners. More and more people in nearly every industry now work on teams that vary in duration and have constantly shifting membership. Teaming presents technical and interpersonal challenges: people must get up to speed quickly on new topics and... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 24 Mar 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: March 24, 2009

      formed among Fortune 300 firms between 1987 and 1996. Based on stock market returns to joint-venture announcements, the results provide support for the contingent value of partnering experience. The implications for managing alliances and advancing organizational View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace