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Published by: Harvard Business Publishing
Published in: "Harvard Management Update", 1997

Abstract

Harvard Business School Professor David Garvin identifies the characteristics necessary to foster corporate learning. By focusing on the practical side of creating learning organizations, Garvin highlights activities that can be used to align a company''s mission with the desired results. Through experimentation and learning, as opposed to continuous improvement, he describes what a learning corporation can do to master the creation, interpretation, and transfer of knowledge, and how an organization can modify its behavior in response to this knowledge.

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Abstract

Harvard Business School Professor David Garvin identifies the characteristics necessary to foster corporate learning. By focusing on the practical side of creating learning organizations, Garvin highlights activities that can be used to align a company''s mission with the desired results. Through experimentation and learning, as opposed to continuous improvement, he describes what a learning corporation can do to master the creation, interpretation, and transfer of knowledge, and how an organization can modify its behavior in response to this knowledge.

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