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May 5, 2017 · Harvard Business School Professor David A. Garvin Dies at 64. BOSTON—David A. Garvin, Harvard Business School’s C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, died at his home in Lexington, Mass., on Sunday, April 30, after a long battle with cancer. He was 64 years old.
May 18, 2017 · David Garvin, a Harvard Business School professor, died in May 2017. He wrote extensively on how managers make decisions, learn, change, and invest.
David Garvin was a renowned professor of business administration at Harvard Business School for almost four decades. He researched and wrote on topics such as organizational learning, management processes, and case method pedagogy.
May 16, 2017 · The article honors the late Harvard Business School professor and his contributions to organizational behavior and learning. It highlights his 1998 article, “The Processes of Organization and Management,” which won the Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize.
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David and I became very close during our time together working on Becoming a Better Manager. As lead content developer for the course, I’d get together with him to chat about course design, case studies, simulations, expert interviews, and other topics about once a week. Right off the bat, I could tell he was a gifted man. At first, our talks cover...
Towards the end of last year, David let me know that his illness had re-surfaced. I was troubled when he told me—after all, in his early sixties, he was still so young! Nevertheless, he said that, despite the bad news, we still had “work to do.” I was amazed he wanted to continue on with the course, and promised to do everything I could to help him...
The course we built together is called Becoming a Better Manager. The program teaches essential tools and tactics that all managers—from CEOs to project managers—can use to get things done in their organizations. On behalf of David, I invite you to come join us to see what we have created. You won’t be disappointed. In reflecting on my own experien...
Organizational learning. Building a Learning Organization. Beyond high philosophy and grand themes lie the gritty details of practice. by. David A. Garvin. From the Magazine (July–August...
Nov 13, 2000 · In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging innovative thinking and putting it into action throughout the organization.
