The Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize.(MIT Sloan Management Review)

The editors of the MIT Sloan Management Review are once again pleased to announce the winners of this year's Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, awarded to the authors of the most outstanding SMR article on planned change and organizational development published from Fall 2003 through Summer 2004 (Volume 45).

This year's winning article is based upon the intriguing premise that, although companies often focus on creating organizational processes and structures that allow them to learn quickly, an organization's effectiveness is equally determined by what it chooses to remember, to unlearn or not to learn in the first place. In other words, real learning and real growth …