by Working Knowledge editors - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 2008
Journal Article

Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'

By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy

Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Strategy; Theory

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05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Working PapersRegional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies Authors:Pol Antrás and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

Change Your Organization in One Week ‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: HBSWK View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

April 2012
Article

Coming Through When It Matters Most

By: Heidi K. Gardner

All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms, I have... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Expectations; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Sharing

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22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

service centers, which are primarily owned by physicians. Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration. Amy C. Edmonson: New ways to balance prevention and sick care Those on the front lines of COVID... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to share her latest thinking. Her new book, Clearing the Hurdles, co-written with Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia G. Greene,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

older man led them to the back of one of the homes. Inside, he showed them a group of people huddled around the glow of two laptops, powered by a generator. “More than any other course, it teaches humility” "He said, 'All of my... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

Everest. Vescovo had reached that summit on his second try in 2010. The battered ice axe he had relied on during the climb was now secured within the the submersible’s body. It reminded him of the intense physical strain of those days on the mountain, the punishing... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst? Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

worked with committee members to examine every expenditure, from staff cell phones to printing costs to health care concessions. Trimming was necessary but not enough; unthinkable as it seemed, all librarian positions in the district... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

Here’s one thing they learned: “Office pairs that lose one or two shared business hours due to [Daylight Savings Time] reduce their total communication volumes by 9.2 percent on average from baseline levels, an effect driven View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

Working Papers Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure-through patent publication-on the market for ideas. We do so View Details

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

engaging in the culture and learning to be vulnerable." Accepting one's vulnerabilities is a primary objective of ALD, which requires participants to work together in six-person groups. "It's more than a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

Fraud," is published in the December 2006 Journal of Accounting Research. Miller, whose favorite non-academic business reading includes the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the investor relations magazine IR, recently talked with HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

if an employer provides some special training/skill to an employee that increases his market value substantially ." Naseem Khan suggested that " a retention bonus may be doled out in lieu of base pay increases." Steve Hobart said that retention bonuses... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image by HBSWK with assets created using Midjourney, an artificial intelligence tool, and from AdobeStock. View Details