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- 01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs
College London. There, in the great tradition of med students everywhere, she committed to memory the encyclopedic volume of information about diseases and their multiple presentations. That bedrock of knowledge is absolutely critical for...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
the basics, you interact with children differently,” says Wilson. “It’s not a rich thing or a poor thing. It’s a knowledge thing.” Jayden Rutledge (16), left, and Evan Gilliand (17) off-stack parts at the Gestamp automotive stamping...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)
in June. "I'm specifically interested in star' knowledge workers - in this case, the analysts in investment banks." He and Associate Professor Ashish Nanda have spent three years building a proprietary...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Younger Black Knowledge Workers BIO As global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, the prospects for mitigating the impact of climate change do not look very good. A detailed new analysis from the Rhodium...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
valuable—effect: When workers cross geographic borders to work together, their different cultural experiences and fields of expertise create new knowledge. “That ‘recombined knowledge’ is greater than the sum of its parts,” he says. “If...
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April White
- 24 Apr 2014
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Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact
studied confidential daily diaries of knowledge workers in three industries. Data showed that making progress on projects and other matters at work drives employee engagement, creativity, and productivity....
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
said. The outsourcing market is estimated at 11 percent of IT — or about $150 billion globally. India is acknowledged to be the largest offshore destination, but a great deal of IT business is outsourced to off-site domestic workers as...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work
The pandemic dramatically accelerated the global marketplace’s appetite for remote work, which had already become a $50 billion industry by 2020. But wages for the same remote jobs varied greatly, depending on where the worker lived....
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- 01 Dec 2012
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FIELD Updates Greet Class of 2014
TATA IN TIP-TOP SHAPE: Members of the HBS community gathered on September 24 for a "topping off" ceremony to celebrate placement of the final steel beam in Tata Hall's ongoing construction. In his remarks, Dean Nitin Nohria recognized the efforts of the many...
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- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
When Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company, heard stories of the shortages of personal protective equipment for front-line medical workers faced with the coronavirus crisis, the fashion-industry...
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- 16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?
what used to be called “automation,” the concept and term made famous by the visionary John Diebold (MBA ’51) when computers were virtually unknown. Today, in an increasingly knowledge-driven economy, the ability of the Watsons of the world to render View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
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Short Takes
experienced workers retire or move on? Leonard and coauthor Sylvia Sensiper examine such questions in a 1998 HBS working paper that was published as "The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation" in the...
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Judith A. Ross
- 07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change
needed,” Mendu says. A third component of the initiative pairs mental health clinicians with outreach workers for the homeless to head off potential crises before they happen. “Our model was a program we researched in Houston that’s...
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Deborah Blagg
- 26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
of 2009 alone, Mills points out that 1.8 million small business jobs were lost. Heavily dependent on credit, small businesses were unable to access capital markets as banks reeled from the crisis and lending froze. With half of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
manufacturing workers on a computer system used for data reconciliation. The assignment proved challenging. “I was a total outsider running a class designed to change the work patterns of an experienced manufacturing team,” she grimaces....
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Kathleen Brill
- 17 Jul 2020
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Support System
the foundations of these communities.” The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Akuete, CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without electricity and therefore lack access to...
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Maureen Harmon
- 14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love
affecting the entire world at once. The women at FGFH recognized an opportunity for impact when they began to hear stories of the massive shortages of personal protective equipment for front-line medical workers and to see images of...
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Maureen Harmon
- 29 Jul 2021
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Support System
selling them. The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Naa-Sakle Akuete (MBA 2014), CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without electricity and therefore lack access to...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
are derived from a study of 238 knowledge workers in seven companies across three industries. For an average of about four months, participants were asked to complete a confidential daily diary form asking...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
employees of international firms, Neeley’s research also looks at how distant workers collaborate with colleagues through various means of communication—electronic, voice, or in person—to advance work and relationship goals. Such contacts...
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