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- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
workers there. Was that a surprise? A: Again, bear in mind that we met a very limited and select group of people. I think different faculty had different reactions based on our initial personal expectations, but given the high quality of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
people’s “realtime” experiences as they worked on creative projects. What were you looking for, specifically? We wanted to get inside the hearts and minds of knowledge workers to better understand the...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business School Working View Details
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- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Co-locating knowledge View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Resource Management Review Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Cross-boundary teaming, within and across...
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- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with HBS Working Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Porter discusses the importance of cluster research and the value of the CMP. Silverthorne: How can data from the Cluster Mapping Project help corporations make better location...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
are you working on now? A: I'm continuing my broader research efforts to understand how the design of knowledge-intensive work affects teamwork, collaboration innovation, and ultimately performance. For example, I'm writing an empirical paper examining what resources...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
media coverage can exacerbate investor biases and that it is the primary mechanism that makes window-dressing effective. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1934978 August 2013 Emotion Botsourcing and Outsourcing: Robot, British,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
nations are now suffering." There was little agreement over how these barriers might be addressed. While suggesting "less and not more help from government," Doug Elliott nevertheless reminded us that many of those workers...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
management role at the Wisconsin Public Service Corporation that included a team of 42 union and administrative workers spanning four counties. At 34, she was assigned line responsibility for electric line crews and gas technicians. “I...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Fortune magazine estimates that 75 percent of all strategies and projects fail; this book offers a proven system to ensure being among the 25 percent that succeed. It provides interactive analytical tools and a step-by-step process to help View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
negative impact on America’s competitiveness that could result. We surveyed thousands of Harvard Business School alumni for their views on immigration. Our alumni were overwhelmingly supportive of skilled immigration. Over 90 percent said that foreign skilled View Details
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by William R. Kerr
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
experienced less contagious presenteeism (employees coming to work while sick) compared with control cities. That is, people were less inclined to attend work when ill. Another factor is various work-design features that pressure workers...
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- 21 May 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for...
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- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
instant-message chat volumes (-8.7 percent).” Companies may want to consider locating their knowledge-worker team members strategically. “Our results suggest that employees engaged in knowledge co-production place a strong premium on...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
the open source community are often intrinsically motivated. It is important to realize, however, that hackers are a diverse group. I have interviewed hobbyists, students, academics, software professionals, and government workers who...
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by Mallory Stark