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HBS Working Knowledge December 17, 2012 Maggie Starvish |
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century In her book, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson makes the case for managers to shift from holding a static view of teamwork to a dynamic one.  |
HBS Working Knowledge September 27, 2010 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured Heidi K. Gardner explains why performance pressure makes team members do what seems irrational: defer to high-status "generalist" experts among them and ignore colleagues with special knowledge of client needs.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 2, 2008 Sean Silverthorne |
Most Popular Stories 2007 Here are the 20 most popular business stories from 2007.  |
Information Today September 24, 2015 |
Cengage Learning Acquires Ed Tech Company Cengage Learning acquired Learning Objects, whose learning platform and instructional design services power online programs and courses for higher education institutions.  |
AskMen.com Pejman Ghadimi |
Tips For Success In Business How can we change the way we learn and hold a better chance of actually moving towards accomplishing our goals and being successful?  |
HBS Working Knowledge March 20, 2006 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Do I Dare Say Something? Professors explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large, multinational corporations, but the lessons learned can apply to smaller enterprises as well.  |
CRM October 12, 2015 Jeff Erhardt |
6 Ways Machine Learning Can Generate More CRM Value Making sense of data, becoming more efficient, and, most important, pleasing customers can now be done on a large scale.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2011 |
Creating Customer Value: New Horizons on the Managed Markets Journey A highlight of the Hay Group's annual study of Sales Force Effectiveness, focusing on managed care markets.  |
On Wall Street October 1, 2012 Denise Federer |
Managing Organizational Change The ultimate test of leadership is the way you handle employees reactions to innovation.  |
HBS Working Knowledge August 22, 2005 Edmondson & Cannon |
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis If a firm can identify and analyze inadvertent failures, and then learn from them, it may be able to retrieve some value from what has otherwise been a negative "result."  |
HBS Working Knowledge February 22, 2010 Julia Hanna |
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems Managers who merely put in time "walking the floor" are not doing enough when it comes to problem solving; in fact, it can make employees feel worse about their situation, says Harvard professor Anita Tucker.  |
HBS Working Knowledge June 13, 2005 Sara Grant |
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology Turf wars and learning curves influence how new technology is adopted in hospitals. Harvard professors discuss the implications of their research for your organization.  |
Information Today May 14, 2012 |
Cengage Learning and Blackboard Introduce Digital Content Integration An integrated solution gives instructors and students streamlined access to Cengage Learning's digital learning solutions and core curriculum content directly through the Blackboard Learn learning management system.  |
Information Today October 24, 2011 |
Cengage Learning to Improve Interoperability With Sakai Courseware Management Platform The collaboration leverages the power of Cengage Learning's MindLinks integration to deliver improved ease of use for students, instructors, and administrators.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Sam Searle |
Using Scenarios in Introductory Research Data Management Workshops for Library Staff This case study describes the inclusion of a scenario-based group learning activity in introductory research data management workshops for librarians at two Australian universities  |
BusinessWeek May 14, 2009 |
The Dynamics of Leadership-Team Behavior How managers interact says a lot about the state of a company.  |
ifeminists May 27, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
The Value of Error Jayson Blair's fabrication of "news" stories for the New York Times has made life more difficult for journalists and commentators who make honest mistakes.  |
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding |
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web.  |
Information Today April 11, 2013 |
Stanford and edX Collaborate on Development of Open Source Learning Platform edX is a not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. edX will release the source code for its entire online learning platform on June 1, 2013.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 Massart et al. |
Taming the Metadata Beast: ILOX Information for Learning Object eXchange, is developed as part of the IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange specification specification that aims to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection.  |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2014 |
Blended Learning Blended learning -- a combination of classroom, independent study, and online instruction for commercial real estate -- is more than an educational fad for CCIM members.  |
AFP eWire July 10, 2006 |
Successful Capital Campaign Teams: Balancing Technical and Interpersonal Skills New research finds that many capital campaign teams, while meeting their goals, often contend with a lack of cohesion, overemphasizing interpersonal skills at the expense of optimal fundraising success.  |
Chemistry World June 2011 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Deliberate practice Researchers have recently been studying how deliberate practice applies to science learning in college.  |
AskMen.com September 21, 2015 Eric Santos |
Why You Should Learn Sales Get ahead in your career by learning how to sell -- even if you aren't in sales.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 4, 2010 |
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009 Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2009.  |
HBS Working Knowledge January 10, 2005 Martha Lagace |
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading Should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? Maybe not. When research on leadership pays more attention to financial results than a person's ability to give the company a sense of purpose, something crucial is lost.  |
Entrepreneur March 2008 Romanus Wolter |
Looking Back Your most powerful business tool is the ability to learn from your mistakes.  |
Managed Care October 2000 |
For Most States, Medical Error Reporting Is Uncertain Science Other industries have figured out how to collect, analyze, and use error data to prevent catastrophes and drive continuous-quality-improvement programs. Health care is only now beginning that process...  |
Fast Company Rebecca Greenfield |
Why The New York Times Hired A Biology Researcher As Its Chief Data Scientist It doesn't come as a huge surprise that the New York Times has hired a chief data scientist. What's surprising, however, is that the new hire, Chris Wiggins, has spent the last 10 years steeped in biology research.  |
HBS Working Knowledge May 5, 2014 Carmen Nobel |
Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance New research by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work improves job performance in the long run.  |
BusinessWeek December 4, 2006 Kerry J. Sulkowicz |
Getting Steamed By The Small Stuff The key to changing your response to incompetence at work is to get some insight into what triggers your rage.  |
Information Today August 18, 2015 |
Blackboard Joins Forces With Moodle Provider Blackboard acquired Level Seven, a Latin American Moodle provider, allowing both companies to offer more services and solutions that leverage the Moodle learning management system.  |
HBS Working Knowledge October 31, 2005 Lauren Keller Johnson |
Overcoming Barriers That Destroy Teams At a time when companies are increasingly relying on cross-functional teams at every level to generate innovative ideas, it's more crucial than ever to tap the fresh thinking that teams can provide. Here's how to unite an unlikely group of collaborators.  |
IndustryWeek April 18, 2012 |
Experiment Your Way to Success How the mother of all learning methods can help your organization improve.  |
HBS Working Knowledge May 30, 2007 Sean Silverthorne |
Health Care Under a Research Microscope The $2 trillion American health care system has grown bloated and overly expensive, and it delivers poor service to many patients. Harvard Business School faculty are looking at the system through a business management perspective to recommend changes.  |
Information Today February 27, 2012 |
Cengage Learning to Provide Discounted Etextbooks to California State University This 3-year contract will allow more than 400,000 students on 23 campuses to access Cengage Learning eTextbooks at a substantial cost savings.  |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go.  |
Information Today October 22, 2013 |
Wiley and The Cochrane Collaboration Develop Cochrane Learning Wiley and The Cochrane Collaboration recently launched Cochrane Learning, a professional development resource for the healthcare industry.  |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2002 |
Sharing Lessons Learned North America's 10 Best Plants winners for 2002 share advice about the challenges facing manufacturing facilities that pursue world-class performance.  |
Information Today July 23, 2012 |
Desire2Learn Announces New Integration Partnerships Desire2Learn, Inc., a provider of teaching and learning platforms, and Cengage Learning, a provider of teaching, learning, and research solutions, announced the availability of enhanced interoperability of Cengage Learning's digital content and solutions within the Desire2Learn platform.  |
HBS Working Knowledge February 27, 2006 Martha Lagace |
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism Positive values are a fixture on corporate mission statements these days. But when leaders fail to live up to the values they've articulated, it's a recipe for employee cynicism.  |
Information Today July 29, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
Reimagining Information Literacy Competencies ACRL completed the final document of a new Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which its task force will submit to ACRL's board of directors at its October meeting.  |
HBS Working Knowledge October 1, 2007 Garry Emmons |
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making Our natural tendency to maintain silence and not rock the boat often results in bad -- sometimes deadly -- decisions.  |
HBS Working Knowledge September 22, 2008 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies A new Harvard Business School working paper looks inside the communications "black box" of a large company to understand who talks to whom.  |
CIO August 31, 2010 |
Leadership Development on a Shoestring Even with limited resources, you can provide effective leadership training for your team by following these three suggestions.  |
CFO June 1, 2011 David McCann |
Measured Response Despite fervent debate about whether companies should measure the ROI of their training-and-development programs, most proceed (or not) on gut instinct.  |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Amazon Takes Its Machine Learning Platform To Europe The service, which lets companies leverage cloud products from Amazon Web Services for data science projects, is the e-commerce giant's ploy to stay competitive in an increasingly crowded market.  |
Information Today September 30, 2014 |
ACRL Standard Available for Public Comment The Distance Learning Section of ACRL announced that its standards committee prepared a draft revision of the 2008 Standards for Distance Learning Library Services.  |
Information Today June 23, 2015 |
ALA Supports the Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015 The Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015, was introduced by Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) as a way to help close the digital divide among K-12 students in the U.S.  |
HBS Working Knowledge April 12, 2004 Martha Lagace |
Operations and the Competitive Edge In a new book, three co-authors from Harvard Business School show how a well-designed operations function can become a strategic competitive weapon.  |