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09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

extent to which their work overlapped. If they could combine findings from across their assorted research projects, they could fit together a big-picture view of office-space configurations and how well they support different kinds of... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

quickly, until Theranos was challenged by a Wall Street Journal investigation. On the surface, Holmes’ story seemed to be the perfect narrative. The would-be Silicon Valley entrepreneur dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 to found... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

10 Apr 2019
HBS Case

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

focus too much on formal contracts in order to transfer knowledge or other resources to their company, rather than less formal arrangements, the researchers learned. “With early stage tech companies, there is a huge emphasis on View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

We also regularly send samples of cases and research work to faculty at European academic institutions. Dessain: All in all, we are off to a good start. In 2003, we were even named the year's most innovative intellectual R&D... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

great they are as individuals, reap the personal benefits of their position, and deftly blunt competition from potential inter-organizational rivals.” His point is that an age of knowledge sharing facilitated View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

weaponry. (Many managers today must feel hopeless against an invisible foe that always seems a step ahead.) Boyd realized he could narrow the gap by working out the best possible approaches to deal with... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

I also have a very financial, economic kind of mind—a business mind. And it’s business skills and aptitude that this region needs.” Marietta’s work at Pine Mountain holds broader lessons for economic redevelopment in other parts of the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

The results were striking. Writer Julia Hanna described the experiment in a previous HBS Working Knowledge article: "Cuddy and coauthors Dana R. Carney and Andy J. Yap of Columbia University detail the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

them, first, requires in-depth knowledge of a given work setting. Quantifying them, next, requires multiple managers and employees answering questions that could get them fired if the company decided to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

company. Emily Tedards is a research associate at HBS. [Image: iStockphoto/defun] Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult What sets digitally... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

Research Summary

Resource-Based Entrepreneurship

By: Myra M. Hart

Myra M. Hart is investigating the relationship between an entrepreneur's industry-specific experience and the success of large-scale startups. Her work focuses on the links between the entrepreneur's knowledge and reputation resources-developed in the same or a... View Details

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

Working Knowledge about these issues. Sean Silverthorne: The draft of your paper with Koleman Strumpf came out almost three months ago, and caused quite a stir both inside the entertainment industry and out.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

commerce, and civic organizations, reinforcing the social fabric and engendering a strong sense of customer and community loyalty. Curation: Despite the increasing sophistication of online algorithms, online platforms have been unable to replicate the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

like a trained oncologist? How about setting up an online competition to find out? An article being published April 18 in JAMA Oncology, a journal of the American Medical Association, describes the crowdsourcing contest and the potential breakthrough for sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

'86). She is global marketing director at Baxter Healthcare. She recalled that while living in the United Kingdom, her children started a lemonade stand but few potential customers even gave it a second glance. In the U.S., she said, you would be able to count on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

activity works to align the organization around one set of goals, top-down, bottom-up, and "middle-out." By necessity, planning is a process that involves many people and empowers those closest to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

more than money. Q: Using the supermarket frequent shopper program as an example, what forces are at work to protect against a consumer being the victim of unwanted intrusion? A: The grocer, by linking the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

technology, health and consumer care, and renewable energy. His scope of work to date encompasses the United States, the European Union, Brazil, India, Malaysia, South Korea, Philippines, Canada, and multiple African countries. In our... View Details